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Bryology/Quaternary Paleoecology/Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States

Norton G. Miller, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist and Curator of the Bryology

and Quaternary Paleobotanical Collections

New York State Museum

CEC 3140

Albany, NY 12230, USA

Phone 518-486-2010, FAX 518.486.2034

nmiller2@mail.nysed.gov

Current Appointment and Academic History

Principal Scientist (Botany), New York State Museum
Chief Scientist, Biological Survey, New York State Museum: 1982-94
Senior Research Botanist, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University: 1981-1982
Associate Professor of Biology and Associate Curator, Arnold Arboretum and Gray Herbarium, Harvard University: 1975-1980
Assistant Professor of Botany, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: 1970-1974
Assistant Curator, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University: 1969-1970
Ph.D. (Botany): 1969, Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
B.A., with High Distinction (Biology): 1963, University of Buffalo, State University of New York

Additional Appointments

Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York
Member, Graduate Faculty, University of Maine, Orono
Honorary Research Associate, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Curatorial Affiliate, Botany, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University

Research

Plant systematics and floristics, especially of bryophytes and seed plants; Quaternary paleobotany and paleoecology (including palynology and studies of plant macrofossils, particularly as these relate to problems in the geography, ecology, and systematics of plants); the Tertiary and Quaternary history of the Bryophyta.

Project List

Pseudoscleropodium (moss)

Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States (Gfseus)

Flora of Rensselaer County, New York

Flora of North America

Checklists and Status of the Bryophytes of New York State

Comstock, New York, Buried Forest Bed

Lime Hollow, New York, Marl Deposition and Paleoenvironments

Paleoecology of interstadial and late-glacial plant fossils

Bryology Data Sets Bryology Data Sets

Publications

Data sets supporting publications

(Since 1990)

Miller, N.G. The management of rare plants: Suggestions derived from paleoecological studies of late-Pleistocene floras. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Natural Areas Conference. Bull. New York State Museum 471: 159-162. 1990.

Tucker, G.C., & N.G. Miller. Achene microstructure in Eriophorum (Cyperaceae): Taxonomic implications and paleobotanical applications. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 117: 266-283. 1990.

Miller, N.G. The genera of Meliaceae in the southeastern United States. Jour. Arnold Arb. 71: 453-486. 1990.

Miller, N.G. Plant macrofossils, pp. 30-72. In: Morgan, A. V. (Ed.). Biological Techniques in Paleoecological Interpretation. 174 pp. Quaternary Sciences Institute. University of Waterloo, Ontario. 1990.

Miller, N.G. Late-Pleistocene cones of jack pine (Pinus banksiana) at the Hiscock Site, western New York. Current Res. Pleistocene 7: 95-98. 1990.

Anderson, R.S., N.G. Miller, R.B. Davis, & R.E. Nelson. Terrestrial fossils within the marine Presumpscot Formation: implications for late Wisconsinan paleoenvironments and isostatic rebound along the coast of Maine. Canad. Jour. Earth Sci. 27: 1241-1246. 1990.

Penskar, M.R., N.G. Miller, & H. Crum. Riccia frostii, a liverwort new to Michigan. Mich. Bot. 27: 15-21. 1991.

Miller, N.G., & P.E. Calkin. Paleoecological interpretation and age of an interstadial lake bed in western New York. Quat. Res. 35: 75-88. 1992.

Miller, N.G. A contribution toward a history of the arctic moss flora. Contrib. Univ. Mich. Herb. 18: 73-86. 1992.

Miller, N.G. A preliminary account of plant fossils from Glacial Lake Hitchcock, Windsor, Connecticut. New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 84th Annual Meeting, pages 316, 317. 1992. [Contrib. Univ. Massachusetts Dept. Geol. 66.]

Miller, N.G. Modern research with bryophytes: An overview. Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 25: 1-10. 1993.

Miller, N.G. New late-Pleistocene moss assemblages from New England, U.S.A., and their bearing on the migrational history of the North American moss flora. Jour. Hattori Bot. Lab. 75: 235-248. 1993.

Semkow, T.M., P.R. Harris, C.D. Schwenker, A.G. Semkow, & N.G. Miller. Observation of space filling in Celosia cristata. Fractals 2: 137-142. 1994.

Miller, B.B., R.W. Graham, A.V. Morgan, N.G. Miller, W.D. McCoy, D.F. Palmer, A.J. Smith, & J.J. Pilney. A biota associated with Matuyama reversed sediments from west-central Illinois. Quat. Res. 41: 350-365. 1994.

Miller, N.G. Facing up to budgetary challenges at the Biological Survey, New York State Museum. Curator 37: 108-121. 1994.

Miller, N.G. A study of the moss Splachnum pensylvanicum using scanning electron microscopy. Hikobia 13: 471-478. 1994.

Miller, N.G., & R.S. Mitchell. Tracking the mosses and vascular plants of New York State (1836-1994), p. 209, 210. In: E.L. LaRoe et al., Eds. Our Living Resources, A Report to the Nation on the Distribution, Abundance, and Health of U.S. Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Biological Service. 1995.

Miller, N.G. On the distributional history of the arctic-alpine moss Cyrtomnium hymenophylloides (Mniaceae) in North America. Bryologist 99: 187-192. 1996.

Miller, N.G. Liverworts, p. 18, 19. In: S. C. Gawler, J. J. Albright, P. D. Vickery, & F. C. Smith. Biological Diversity in Maine: An Assessment of Status and Trends in the Terrestrial and Freshwater Landscape. Maine Natural Areas Program. 1996.

Miller, N.G. Liverwort diversity in Maine, p. 72-79. In: S. C. Gawler, J. J. Albright, P. D. Vickery, & F. C. Smith. Biological Diversity in Maine: An Assessment of Status and Trends in the Terrestrial and Freshwater Landscape. Maine Natural Areas Program. 1996.

Miller, N.G., & D. McKinley. Taxonomic status of the moss Grevilleanum serratum, with notes on the early 18th century American scientists, L. C. Beck and E. Emmons, Senior. Bryologist 100:198-203. 1997.

Arriagada, J.E., & N.G. Miller. The genera of Anthemideae (Compositae, Asteraceae) in the southeastern United States. Harvard Papers Botany 10:1-46. 1997.

Miller, N.G., & G.S. Mogensen. Cyrtomnium hymenophylloides (Bryophyta, Mniaceae) in North America and Greenland: Male plants, sex-differential geographic distribution, and reproductive characteristics. Bryologist 100: 499-506. 1997.

Miller, N.G. Fossil mosses in Holocene alluvium: a case study from New York State and prospects. Jour. Hattori Bot. Lab. 82: 171-180. 1997.

Maher, L.J., Jr., N.G. Miller, R.G. Baker, B.B. Curry, & D.M. Mickelson. Paleobiology of the sand beneath Valders Till at Valders, Wisconsin. Quat. Res. 49: 208-221. 1998.

Miller, N.G., & A.D. Miller. Occurrence of the leafy liverwort, Frullania bolanderi, in old-growth forests of northeastern North America. Jour. Torrey Bot. Soc. 125: 109-116. 1998.

Miller, N.G., & R.W. Spear. Late-Quaternary history of the alpine flora of the New Hampshire White Mountains. Géographie physique et Quaternaire 53: 137-157. 1999.

Miller, N.G. Pleurocladula albescens in the late-Pleistocene of Vermont, U.S.A., and on the rarity of Hepaticae in glacial sediments. Haussknechtia Beih. 9: 251-257. 1999.

Miller, N.G., & J.E. Arriagada. Web-site and unpublished data sets for the Southeast flora. Sida. Bot. Misc. 18: 83-96. 2000.

Miller, N.G., & G.S. Mogensen. Male plants of Cyrtomnium hymenophylloides (Bryopyta: Mniaceae) in Siberia. Arctoa 8: 1, 2. 2000.

McDaniel, S.F., & N.G. Miller. Winter dispersal of bryophyte fragments in the Adirondack Mountains, New York. Bryologist 103: 592-602. 2000.

Miller, N.G., & N. Trigoboff. A European feather moss, Pseudoscleropodium purum, naturalized widely in New York State. Bryologist 103: 98-103. 2000.

Miller, N.G. First records of the European moss, Pseudoscleropodium purum, naturalized in New England. Rhodora 102: 514-517. 2000.

Miller, N.G. The Callitrichaceae in the southeastern United States. Harvard Papers Botany 5: 277-301. 2000 [pub. 2001].

Farlow, J.O., J.A. Sunderman, J.J. Havens, A.L. Swinehart, J.A. Holman, R.L. Richards, N.G. Miller, R.A. Martin, R.M. Hunt, Jr., G.W. Storrs, B.B. Curry, R.H. Fluegeman, M.R. Dawson, & M. E.T. Flint. The Pipe Creek Sinkhole biota, a diverse late Tertiary continental fossil assemblage from Grant County, Indiana. Am. Midl. Nat. 144: 367-378. 2001.

Futyma, R.P. & N.G. Miller. Postglacial history of a marl fen: Vegetational stability at Byron-Bergen Swamp, Genesee County, New York. Can. Jour. Bot. 79: 1425-1438. 2001.

Miller, N.G. Aneura maxima (Hepaticae: Aneuraceae) in Maine, U.S.A. Rhodora 104: 77-82. 2002.

Toney, J.L., D.T. Rodbell, & N.G. Miller. Sedimentologic and palynologic records of the last deglaciation and Holocene from Ballston Lake, New York. Quat. Res. 60: 189-199. 2003.

Miller, N.G. & C.E. Wood, Jr. The Asian weed Fatoua villosa (Moraceae) in New York State and Masschusetts. Rhodora 105 (in press).

Miller, N.G. & R.P. Futyma. Extending the paleobotanical record at the Hiscock Site, New York: Correlations among stratigraphic pollen assemblages from nearby lake and wetland basins. Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 37 (in press).

Webb, T. III, B. Shuman, P. Leduc, P. Newby, & N.G. Miller. Late Quaternary climate history of western New York State. Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 37 (in press).

Miller, N.G. Contemporary and prior environments of the Hyde Park, New York, mastodon on the basis of associated plant macrofossils. Palaeontographica Americana 62 (submitted).

Miller, N.G. & P.L. Nester. Paleoecology of a late-Pleistocene wetland and associated mastodon remains in the Hudson Valley, southeastern New York. Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Publ. (submitted).

Miller, N.G. & S.D. McDaniel. Bryophyte dispersal inferred from floristics of an introduced substratum on Whiteface Mountain, New York. Am. Jour. Bot. (submitted).
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