Pringle Herbarium Affiliates

Researchers

Weston Testo

Assistant Professor • Director of the Pringle Herbarium

Weston.Testo@uvm.edu
Expertise
  • plant systematics and evolution
  • phylogenomics
  • comparative phylogenetic methods
  • specimen-based research
  • tropical plant diversity
  • Vermont flora

Sarah Morris

Graduate Student, Department of Plant Biology

sarah.morris@uvm.edu
Expertise
  • Pleopeltis (Polypodiaceae) taxonomy and systematics
  • floristics and macroevolution of the Chocó Biogeographic Region
  • evolution of adaptive traits
  • polyploidy and hybridization

Nicole Phelan

Graduate Student, Department of Plant Biology

nicole.phelan@uvm.edu
Expertise
  • plant ecology
  • hybridization and polyploidy
  • conservation biology

Nicolás Zapata

Graduate Student, Department of Plant Biology

jnzapata@uvm.edu
Expertise

David S. Barrington

Professor Emeritus

David.Barrington@uvm.edu
Expertise
  • plant systematics and evolution
  • genus Polystichum

Art Gilman

Research Botanist

Arthur.Gilman@uvm.edu
Expertise
  • flora of Vermont
  • lycophytes and ferns: systematics, phylogeny, and biogeography
  • Rosacea: apomixis and species concepts
  • botanical history and exploration 

Staff

Eunice smiling in front of a computer as she holds a paper aloft

Eunice Froeliger

Herbarium Collections Manager

eunice.froeliger@uvm.edu
Expertise
Sonia smiling in a baseball cap

Sonia DeYoung

Assistant Director, Field Naturalist Program • Exhibits & Outreach Coordinator, Natural History Collections

sonia.deyoung@uvm.edu
Expertise
a woman with long wavy red hair on a boat

Dana Trombitas

Curatorial Assistant • Lab Instructor

Expertise
Hilda stands with her hand on a pile of specimens in the process of being mounted.

Hilda White

Master Mounter

Expertise

Since 1998, Hilda has mounted over 50,000 specimens for the herbarium. Click here to read an interview with her in Northern Woodlands.

Jim in a hot-pink shirt

Jim Hayden

Digitization Specialist

Expertise