Wesley M. Knapp
(410)
924-6989
Education
2002-2005 M.S. in Plant Science with option in Plant Systematics, Delaware State University, Dover, Delaware
2002-2005 M.S. in Plant Science with option in Plant Systematics, Delaware State University, Dover, Delaware
1997-2001 B.S. in Environmental Sciences focus in
Botany, Minor in Chemistry,
Catawba College, Salisbury, North
Carolina
1993-1997 Stevens High School, Claremont, New Hampshire
1993-1997 Stevens High School, Claremont, New Hampshire
Employment Experience
2012-present Instructor at Wetland Training Institute
2008-present Eastern Region Heritage Ecologist/Botanist,
Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Program.
2002-2008 Eastern Region Heritage Biologist/Botanist,
Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Program.
2001-2002 Field Botanist, Maryland Department of
Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Program
Summer 2000 Intern: Field Botanist/Botanical Instructor for the Missouri
Department of Conservation.
Department of Conservation.
Awards
2001
The Catawba College Environmental Science Award
2012 W.E. Buker Travel Award; Carnegie Museum of Natural
History
Professional Society Memberships
American Society
of Plant Taxonomists
American Bryological
and Lichenological Society
Association of
Southeastern Biologists
Southern
Appalachian Botanical Society
Maryland Native
Plant Society
Lecture Delivered
21 September 2013 “Rare Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes of Western Maryland” –
Maryland Native Plant Society Annual Fall Conference.
25 September 2010 “Eastern Shore Plant Communities and their Rare Species” –
Maryland Native Plant Society’s Annual Fall Conference.
17 August 2010 “What’s the Rush – the genus Juncus in Maryland” – Maryland Native
Plant Society.
17 November
2005 “Morphology and Distribution of Juncus longii – Clarifying its Status as
a Species”, Philadelphia Botanical Club
27 August 2001 “Rare Plants of the Delmarva
Peninsula” - NRCS, Adkins
Arboretum, Ridgely,
Maryland.
Specialized Training
24-30 June 2007 “Bryophytes and Bryophyte
Ecology”, Humboldt Field Research Institute, Stueben, Maine.
10–14 February
2003 “Rx-310 Introduction to
Fire Effects” hosted by The Nature Conservancy, Browns Mills, NJ.
5-9 August 2002
“Basic Wildland Fire
Fighting (S130/190)” hosted by Maryland Forestry at the Wicomico Demonstration
Forest, Wicomico County, MD
28 April-2 May
2002 “Core Heritage
Methodology Training” hosted by NatureServe, Arlington, VA
Training Sessions Conducted
20-23 May 2013 “Identifying Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes” for Wetlands
Training Institute, Norfolk, VA
7-9 September 2012 “Juncus identification workshop” for the New York Flora
Association
12-13 June 2012 “Sedge Identification Workshop with Chris Frye of the
Maryland Natural Heritage Program for the Maryland Native Plant Society at
Towson University
21-24 May 2012 “Identifying Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes” for Wetlands
Training Institute, at Wetlands Studies and Solutions, Gainesville, VA
28-30 April 2004 “Grass and Sedge Identification Workshop” with Chris Frye of
the Maryland Natural Heritage Program, University of Maryland Centre of
Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD
21 May 2003 “Herbaceous
and Woody Plant Identification Workshop” for Maryland Forest Service employees,
Dorchester County, MD
21-24 April 2003 “Grass and Sedge Identification Workshop” with Chris Frye of
the Maryland Heritage Program, University of Maryland Center for Environmental
Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD
7 April 2002 “Field
Identification of Flowering Plants,” for
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
employees, Cambridge, MD.
Panels and Committees
3-4 April 2014 Botanical Society of
America-Southeast Section Award Judge
3-4 April 2014 North Carolina
Botanical Garden Award Judge – Given during the Association of Southeastern
Biologists Annual Meeting.
April 2013-Janruary
2014 Maryland Botanical Heritage
Work Group – Governor appointed Work Group tasked with writing report on the
current state of Maryland’s Botanical Heritage. (Chapter 655, Acts of 2013).
September 2012 –
present Invasive Plant Advisor
Committee: Tasked to advise the Secretary of the Maryland Department of
Agriculture of risk assessment protocol for invasive plants and to establish a
list of invasive plants for control within the State of Maryland.
6-7 April 2012 North Carolina
Botanical Garden Award Judge – Given during the Association of Southeastern
Biologists Annual Meeting.
4-5 January 2012 Mid-Atlantic Region Seed Bank organizational
committee
June 2010 – Present Maryland Invasive Species Committee Member
13-16 November 2010 Mid-Atlantic Floristic Quality Index Assessment committee
member, Canaan Valley Resort, Davis, WV
June 2008 – May
2009 “Natural Areas Program
Development Committee” – Founding member. Assessing necessity and drafting
regulation toward implantation of a Natural Areas Program across Maryland.
February 2008 – Jan
2009 “Natural Heritage Program Data
Evaluation Committee” – Team Leader. An internal evaluation and assessment of
the functionality and effectiveness of the MD Natural Heritage Program Data
Information Program.
March 2004 –
present Non-Vascular Plant
Technical Committee – Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program/Western
Pennsylvania Conservancy.
January 2003 –
present Vascular Plant Technical
Committee - Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program/Western Pennsylvania
Conservancy.
Noteworthy Scientific
Service
2013 Smithsonian
Institution Contributions to Botany, manuscript reviewer
2012 - 2013 Castanea (Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society),
manuscript reviewer
2010 Preslia (Journal of the Czech Botanical Society) manuscript
reviewer
2010 – present Flora of North America Reviewer, Southeastern Region
Papers Presented at Scientific Meetings
3 April 2014 “A
reexamination of Juncus validus var. fascinatus, a Texas Endemic, and Notes
on Closely Related Species” – Association of Southeastern Biologists Annual
Meeting, Spartanburg, SC
9 October 2012 “Orchid Decline in the Catoctin
Mountains, Frederick Co., Maryland as Documented by a Long-term Dataset”.
Natural Areas Association Annual Meeting, Norfolk, VA.
6 June 2012 “Orchid Decline in the Catoctin
Mountains, Frederick Co., Maryland as Documented by a Long-term Dataset”.
Society of Economic Botany Annual Meeting, Frostburg, MD
5 April 2012 “Orchid Decline in the Catoctin
Mountains, Frederick Co., Maryland as Documented by a 25+ Year Dataset”.
Association of Southeastern Biologists, Athens, GA.
9 April
2010 “The Liverworts and
Hornworts of the Delmarva Peninsula’s
Atlantic
Coastal Plain.” Association of Southeastern Biologists
Annual
Meeting, Asheville, NC.
29
July 2008 “Systematics of
the Rhynchospora plumosa group
(Cyperaceae)”, presented at the American Society of Plant Taxonomists Annual
meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
9 July 2007 “Circumscription of Rhynchospora section Plumoseae (Cyperaceae), based on
Morphologic Data” at the American Society of Plant Taxonomists Annual meeting,
Chicago, Illinois.
3 August 2004 “Taxonomy of Juncus longii, a
putative taxon within the Juncus marginatus complex” at the American
Society of Plant Taxonomists Annual meeting, Snowsburg, Utah.
15 April 2004 “Taxonomy of Juncus longii,
a putative taxon within the Juncus marginatus complex” at the
Association of Southeastern Biologist Annual meeting, Memphis, Tennessee.
24 March
2001 “The Flora of Dunn Mountain,
Rowan County, North Carolina before and after granite quarrying,” North
Carolina Academy of Sciences, 98th Annual Meeting, University North
Carolina-Greensboro.
Undergraduate
Research Project
2000-2001 Study and comparison of the
flora and natural communities of Dunn Mountain, Rowan County, NC and their
response to a recent quarry operation. Advisor: Dr. Michael Baranski.
Graduate Research Project
2002-2005 The
Systematics of Juncus longii Fern. A
putative taxon within the Juncus
marginatus complex. Advisor: Dr. Robert F.C. Naczi
Papers/Reports Published
Knapp, W.M. Juncus fascinatus (Juncaceae) a new combination in sect. Ozophyllum and notes on morphologically
similar species. [submitted Phytotaxa]
Knapp, W.M. & R. Wiegand. 2014. Population decline of
orchids (Orchidaceae) in the Catoctin
Mountains, Frederick County, Maryland as documented by a long-term dataset. [in press] Biodiversity and Conservation.
Allen, C & W.M. Knapp 2014. More than a ‘Pygmy’ discovery. The Plant Press
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Vol
17(1): 9
Knapp, W.M. 2014. Juncaceae in The New Manual of Vascular Plants of
the Northeastern United State and Adjacent Canada by R.F.C. Naczi. New York Botanical Gardens. [in prep]
Maryland Botanical Working Group Report: for the Governor and the
General Assembly
of Maryland concerning the preservation of Maryland’s Botanical
Heritage. 15 Jan 2014. http://nmnh.typepad.com/files/vol17no1.pdf
Knapp, W.M. & B.A. McAvoy. 2012. Sphagnum cyclophyllum New to Delaware
and Maryland. Evansia 29(4): 101-103.
Sorrie, B.A., W.M. Knapp, L.D. Estes, &
D.D. Spaulding. 2012. A new Sisyrinchium (Iridaceae)
from cedar glades in northern Alabama. Journal
of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. 6(2):323-329
Naczi, R.F.C., W.M. Knapp, & W.W. Thomas.
2012. Rhynchospora marliniana
(Cyperaceae), a new species of Rhynchospora
sect. Plumosae, from northern
Central America and southeastern North America (Cyperaceae), Kew Bulletin 67:1-8.
Knapp, W.M., R.F.C. Naczi, W.D. Longbottom,
C.A. Davis, W.A. McAvoy, C.T. Frye, J.W. Harrison, & P. Stango III. 2011.
Floristic Discoveries in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Phytoneuron. 2011-64:1-26.
McAcoy, W.A., W.M. Knapp & L.T. Biechele.
2011. An annotated Checklist of Liverworts and Hornworts of the Delmarva
Peninsula. Torrey Botanical Society,
138 (2): 239-251.
Sorrie, B.A. & W.M. Knapp. 2011. Juncus
pp. 185-192. In A. Weakley, ed. Flora of the Southern and
Mid-Atlantic States (Working Draft 15 May 2011).
R.F.C. Naczi, W.M. Knapp & G. Moore.
2010. Rhynchospora galeana, a new
name for
Rhynchospora breviseta (Gale) Channell (Cyperaceae). Brittonia 62(1):96-97.
Harrison J.W. & W.M. Knapp. An Ecological
Classification of Groundwater Seepage Wetlands of Maryland’s Coastal Plain.
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Report. June 2010. 96 pp.
Knapp, W.M. & R.F.C. Naczi. 2008.
Taxonomy, Morphology, and Geographic Distribution of Juncus longii (Juncaceae) Systematic
Botany 33(4): 685-694.
Lendemer, J.C. & W.M. Knapp. 2007.
Contributions to the Lichen Flora of Maryland: Recent Collections from the
Delmarva Peninsula. Opuscula Philolichenum. 4:23-34.
Knapp, W.M. & D. Estes 2006. Gratiola brevifolia (Plantaginaceae) New
to the Flora of Delaware, the Delmarva Peninsula and the Mid-Atlantic. SIDA 22(1): 825-829.
McAvoy, W.A., L.T. Biechele, & W.M.
Knapp. 2006. New Records for the Leafy Liverwort Calypogeia peruviana Nees et Mont. (Calypogeiaceae) on the Delmarva
Peninsula. Evansia 23(1): 19-20
Knapp, W.M. &
C.T. Frye. 2002. Ecologically Significant Areas of Somerset County, MD.
Maryland Dept. Nat. Res. 41 pp.
Knapp, W.M.
& C.T. Frye. 2002. Protection Area Boundaries of Somerset counties
Ecologically Significant Areas. Maryland Dept. Nat. Res. 24 Pp
Knapp, W.M. &
C.T. Frye 2002. Ecologically Significant Areas of Worcester County, MD.
Maryland Dept. Nat. Res. 111 pp.
Knapp, W.M. &
C.T. Frye 2002. Protection Area Boundaries of Worcester counties Ecologically
Significant Areas. Maryland Dept. Nat. Res.
45 Pp
Select Field Work and current research projects
2013 Florida sand scrub habitat for
revision of Rhynchosproa sect. Plumosae
2011-present Reevaluation of infraspecific variation
within Juncus validus.
2009-present work towards the Juncaceae treatment for the revision of the Manual of the Vascular
Plants of the Northeastern United States and adjacent Canada [in prep.]
2009-2011 work towards the Juncaceae and Rhynchospora treatments
for the Flora of Tennessee project [in
prep.]
2008 Rhynchospora sect. Plumosae
in Apalachicola National Forest, Florida.
2006-2007 Work towards a formal revision of Rhynchospora sect. Plumosae in North Carolina and New Jersey.
2005-present Work towards a Checklist of the Maryland
Flora and associated state-wide fieldwork.
Winter 2005 Vascular plant surveys in Belize, focusing on Cyperaceae.
2004-present Examination of the Extirpated Flora of the Delmarva
Peninsula
2004-present Studies toward and Atlas of the Juncaceae of
Maryland, Delaware, and the Eastern Shore of Virginia
August 2004 Vascular Plant Surveys in Nevada and Utah
July 2004 Surveys for species within the Juncus
marginatus complex in the southeastern, U.S. (Alabama, Georgia,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee)
2003-2011 Studies toward an Atlas of the Hepaticae
and Anthocerotae of the Delmarva Peninsula
2003 A complete survey of the
Wetlands of Special State Concern in the Coastal Bays Watershed of Worcester
County, MD
2003 County updates for Rare,
Threatened, and Endangered Species of flora and fauna in Caroline County, MD
2003 Preliminary surveys/collections
of the Bryoflora of Maryland’s Eastern Shore
2003 Surveys for species within the Juncus marginatus complex in MA, NC, NH,
NJ, PA, SC, VA, and VT.
2002
Surveys for Rare, Threatened, and Endangered
Species of flora and fauna in Dorchester and Wicomico counties, Maryland.
2001-2002 Bog
Turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergi) surveys in the Piedmont of Maryland.
2001 Ecologically Significant Area
Surveys for Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species in Somerset and Worcester
counties.
2001-2007 Field Surveys for the Juncus
marginatus complex.
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