Dr. Steven Manchester

Curator of Paleobotany
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Steven Manchester is Associate Curator of Paleobotany, Florida Museum of Natural History, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Botany and Geology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. After double majoring in Botany and Geology for Batchelor of Science degrees from Oregon State University (1977), he obtained his MS and Phd degrees in paleobotany at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (1981). He is interested in the evolution of plants and vegetation in the Northern Hemisphere through the Tertiary. In particular, his research has concentrated on: 1) the evolution of extant angiosperm families (e.g., Juglandaceae, Betulaceae, Fagaceae, Platanaceae, Myrtaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Musaceae) in the Northern Hemisphere, 2) multiple-organ paleobotanical investigations providing characters of flowers, fruits, pollen, leaves and wood for inclusion in phylogenetic analyses, 3) Paleocene and Eocene floras of western North America and eastern Asia, 4) Eocene and Oligocene floras >from the John Day Basin, Oregon.