Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences: AAPS 

As a Science Writer at the Garden, I delve into the science we do here and how to relay our work to anyone interested. I am focused on the Garden’s work meeting the need for native seed.

My previous work focused largely on community science, especially Budburst, diversity of plants used for restoration in the Colorado Plateau, and germination of native plants in the Midwest prairie. I had a brief side quest investigating the agricultural inclusion of rare arable plants at the Technical University of Munich in Freising, Germany.

I hold a B.S. in Biology from Northwestern University and an M.S. from the Plant Biology and Conservation Program at Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden. 

Barak RS, Lichtenberger T, Wellman-Houde A, Kramer AT, Larkin DJ. Cracking the case: Seed traits and phylogeny predict time to germination in prairie restoration species. Ecol Evol. 2018;8:5551–5562. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4083

A.J. Foxx, R.S. Barak, T.M. Lichtenberger, L.K. Richardson, A.J. Rodgers, & E. Webb Williams, Evaluating the prevalence and quality of conference codes of conduct, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116 (30) 14931-14936, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1819409116 (2019).

Zeldin J, Lichtenberger TM, Foxx AJ, Webb Williams E, Kramer AT. Intraspecific functional trait structure of restoration-relevant species: Implications for restoration seed sourcing. J Appl Ecol. 2020;57:864–874. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13603