• Director of the OAC Herbarium & the Floristic Diversity Research Group (FDRG) at the Biodiversity institute of Ontario, University of Guelph.
• Curator of Cryptogamic collection, OAC Herbarium.
• Faculty - Integrative Biology, College of Biological Sciences.

• Life in a Global Context BIOL 104
• Plants in the Ontario Landscape BOT 2030
• Classification and Morphology of Seed Plants BOT 3710
• Graduate Studies in Ecology and Taxonomy BOT 6301

Dr. Steven G. Newmaster, Ph.D.
Curator & Assistant Professor
OAC Herbarium
Biodiversity Institute of Ontario
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario. N1G 2W1

Phone: (519) 824 4120 x 56002
Cell (519) 837-7844
Fax: (519) 767-1991
email: snewmast@uoguelph.ca

Accomplishments:
Steve is author of more than 30 publications including the new released Flora Ontario, several botanical field guides such as Wetland plants of Ontario, several book chapters, more than a dozen Journal articles on biodiversity and several government reports on ecosystem management and conservation. He is currently working on over 20 generic treatments and 4 family treatments for the Flora of North America (FNA) Project, with the Missouri Botanical Gardens, and writing books on bryophytes and ethnobotany. His research program, the "Floristic Diversity Research Group" (FDRG) has generated over $3 million dollars in biodiversity research. The FDRG is well situated within the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO) OAC Herbarium here they conduct research in the patterning of floristic diversity, anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity, taxonomy, invasive species biology and ethnobotany. Accomplishments of the FDRG include the development of the Flora Ontario Integrated Botanical Information Service (FOIBIS), The Ontario Invasive Plant Information Service (OIPIS), a digital identification system for plants Polyclavis© (Newmaster & Ragupathy 2004), a new sampling methodology for biodiversity studies "Floristic Habitat Sampling" (Newmaster et al. 2005) and front-line research on a molecular identification system for plants with the internationally recognized Barcode of Life Network.