Dwarf sandwort (Minuartia pusilla) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 15

Biographical Summary of Report Writers

Jenifer L. Penny has a B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Victoria. She has been employed by the British Columbia Conservation Data Centre as a botanist since 1995. Jenifer has conducted extensive field work in botany and has co-authored six COSEWIC status reports. She is also senior author for the family Primulaceae in the Illustrated Flora of British Columbia (1999) and co-author of the Rare Native Vascular Plants of British Columbia (2002).

Brenda Costanzo has an M.Sc. (Botany) from the University of Victoria. She was the Assistant Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Victoria from 1989 until 2001. Brenda has done extensive field work in botany and has recently worked on preparing fact sheets for plants at risk in Garry oak and associated ecosystems for the Garry Oak Recovery Team (GOERT). She was also the chair of the Plants at Risk Recovery Action Group under GOERT for six months. Brenda is currently the Species at Risk Recovery Coordinator for forest dependent species at the British Columbia Ministry of Water Land Air Protection.

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