Robert Shaw Egan

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Robert S. Egan
Born1945
Alma materUniversity of Colorado Boulder
Scientific career
FieldsLichenology
InstitutionsUniversity of Nebraska Omaha
ThesisA floristic study of alpine lichens from Colorado and New Mexico (1971)
Author abbrev. (botany)Egan

Robert "Bob" Shaw Egan (born 1945) is a botanist and lichenologist, specializing in the family Parmeliaceae. He was the president of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society from 1999 to 2001.

Education and career

Robert S. Egan graduated from the

Castleton State College (now called Castleton University) and then from 1975 to 1979 was a faculty member at Texas A&M University. At the University of Nebraska Omaha he joined the faculty in 1979, was promoted to full professor in 1985, and retired there as professor emeritus. From 1989 to 1992 he was the chair of the botany department.[1][2]

Egan has collected lichens in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. He is the author or co-author of over 100 scientific publications.

Big Thicket National Preserve
in East Texas, and the Lichen family Parmeliaceae in Mexico."

Eponyms

Selected publications

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Egan, Robert (Bob) Shaw". JSTOR Global Plants.
  2. ^ "Robert Egan, PhD, Professor Emeritus". Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska Omaha.
  3. ^ "Buellia eganii Bungartz". Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria, lichenportal.org.
  4. ^ "Xanthoparmelia eganii Elix & T.H.Nash". Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria, lichenportal.org.
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Egan.

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