Michael Jeffrey Balick

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Michael J. Balick
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Delaware
Harvard University
Known forPlants, People, and Culture (1996, 2020)[4][5]
Scientific career
InstitutionsNew York Botanical Garden[1]
Thesis The biology and economics of the Oenocarpus-Jessenia (Palmae) complex[2]  (1980)
Doctoral advisorRichard Evans Schultes[3]
Author abbrev. (botany)Balick

Michael Jeffrey Balick (born 1952) is an American

pharmacognosist,[6] known as a leading expert on medicinal and toxic plants, biocultural conservation and the plant family Arecaceae (palms).[1]

Education and career

Michael J. Balick graduated in 1975 with B.Sc. in agriculture and plant sciences from the University of Delaware, after spending the academic year 1972–1972 at Tel Aviv University. At Harvard University he graduated with M.Sc. in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1980, where he also attended Harvard Business School. At the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) he was from 1980 to 1989 an associate curator and the executive assistant to NYBG's president and is since 1989 NYBG's Philecology Curator of Economic Botany. In 1981 he was the co-founder, with Ghillean Prance, of NYBG's Institute of Economic Botany and since 1990 has been the institute's director. Balick has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University, Fordham University, the City University of New York,[7] New York University, and Yale University.[8]

Balick has worked in ethnobotany and ethnomedicine in remote areas of the tropics with people of indigenous cultures, as well as in New York City with people having traditional herbal knowledge

Amazonia, where he studied palms and their local uses. He has done research and taught university courses in "ethnobotany and ethnomedicine, phytochemistry, floristics and conservation biology."[7]

In 1979, he was the first to receive 'The George H.M. Lawrence Memorial Award', in the amount of $2,000, presented by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University and presented at the annual banquet of the Botanical Society of America.[10]

Balick is the author or co-author of more than 160 scientific articles or book chapters. He is also the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of thirty books and monographs, varied among scientific and general interest.[1] He has been a co-collector with more than two dozen botanists, including Brian M. Boom, Andrew J. Henderson, and Ghillean Prance.[7] Balick has been doing research with Gregory M. Plunkett on the plants and ethnobotany of Vanuatu's Tafea Province.[1]

Among his academic and professional honors, Balick was elected in 1999 a Fellow of the

Society for Economic Botany in 1992 and in 2009 was a recipient of the Society's Distinguished Economic Botanist award.[7]
He is married to Emily Lewis Penn, a New York City realtor and poet.

Selected publications

Articles

Books
The standard author abbreviation Balick is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Michael J. Balick, Vice President for Botanical Science, Director and Philecology Curator, Institute of Economic Botany". New York Botanical Garden. (website with PDF links for more than 120 publications)
  2. ^ Balick, Michael J. (1980). "The biology and economics of the Oenocarpus-Jessenia (Palmae) complex". Hollis, Harvard University Library.
  3. ^ "Lawrence Memorial Award" (PDF). Bulletin of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. 1 (2): 2. Fall 1979.
  4. ^
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    JSTOR 23607689
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  6. ^ "Michael Balick". Graduate Center, City University of New York.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Balick, Michael Jeffrey". JSTOR Global Plants.
  8. ^ "Michael J. Balick, Ph.D." Brain Chemistry Labs.
  9. ^ "Michael J. Balick". American Museum of Natural History.
  10. ^ "Lawrence Memorial Award | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation". www.huntbotanical.org. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  12. ^ Clement, Charles R. (Summer 1994). "Review of New directions in the study of plants and people: research contributions from the Institute of Economic Botany by Ghillean T. Prance and Michael J. Balick" (PDF). Journal of Ethnobiology. 14 (1): 125–127.
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  14. doi:10.1017/S0960428600002262
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  15. ^ Browning, Dominique (May 29, 2014). "Summer Reading: Gardening (with brief review of Rodale's 21st-Century Herbal)". New York Times.
  16. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Balick.

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