About the Author

Janice Glime is Professor of Botany in the

Department of Biological Sciences at Michigan
Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA.
She has a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary
education from Frostburg State University, Maryland,
USA (1962), a Master of Science in botany from West
Virginia University (1964), and a Doctor of Philosophy
in botany from Michigan State University (1968).
She specializes in teaching freshmen in general
biology and botany, and every two years gets to teach
upperclassmen and graduate students about the world of
bryophytes. She is currently the President of the
International Association of Bryologists (IAB) and is the
manager of Bryonet-L, the IAB email discussion group
on bryophytes. She has published over 100 papers,
mostly on bryophyte ecology, is author of the book The
Elfin World of Mosses and Liverworts of Isle Royale and
the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, co-author with Dinesh
Saxena of Uses of Bryophytes, and editor of Methods in
Bryology.