John Engel

Curator Emeritus

Negaunee Integrative Research Center
Curator Emeritus

Education and Work

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1960-65.  B.S. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1965-67.  M.S. University of Michigan Biological Station, 1967. Michigan State University, 1967-72.  Ph.D.

Research Assistant, Michigan State University, 1967-71. Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1971-72. Donald Richards Assistant Curator of Bryology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1972-77. Donald Richards Associate Curator of Bryology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1977-86. Donald Richards Curator of Bryology, Field Museum of Natural History,  1986-2008 Served as Acting Chairman, Department of Botany, September 1987- May, 1988 Chairman, Department of Botany, Field Museum of Natural History, June, 1988 to Sept. 1993 Curatorial Affiliate in the Division of Botany, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale Curator Emeritus, Department of Botany, Field Museum, 2009-

Accomplishments

Publications 1.   A taxonomic monograph of the genus Balantiopsis (Hepaticae).  Nova Hedwigia 16: 83-130.  pl. 27 (1)-59 (33).  1968. 2.   Marsupidium in South America.  J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 34: 437-444.  pl. 1-2.  1971.  (with R. Grolle). 3.   The genus Andrewsianthus in South America and the Falkland Islands.  Bryologist 75: 325-334.  f. 1-64.  1972. 4.   Chiloscyphus hookeri n. sp. and nomenclatural changes in the genus Clasmatocolea.  J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 36: 150-156.  pl. 1-2.  1972 (1973). 5.   Metzgeria litoralis sp. nov. and Apometzgeria from southern South America.  Bryologist 76: 293-296.  f. 1-9.  1973.  (with Y. Kuwahara). 6.   On some tidal zone Hepaticae from South Chile, with comments on marine dispersal.  Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 100: 29-35.  1 tab.   1973.  (with R. M. Schuster). 7.   On the typification of Austrolophozia fuegiensis (Steph.) Schust. J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 37: 181-183.  1 tab.  1973. 8.   Austral Hepaticae I.  Pigafettoa Mass.  Bryologist 76: 511-515.  f. 1-9.  1974.  (with R. M. Schuster). 9.   Austral Hepaticae II.  Evansianthus, a new genus of Geocalycaceae.  Bryologist 76: 516-520.  f. 1-9.  1974.  (with R. M. Schuster). 10.   The Raymond E. Hatcher collection of Hepaticae and Anthocerotae from southern South America, with new taxa and notes on range extensions.  Bryologist 76: 528-535.  f. 1-18.  1974. 11.   Notes on the genus Hygrolembidium (Hep...

Research Sketch

Foreign Field Work: Juan Fernandez Islands, 1965. Falkland Islands, 1967-68 Southern Chile, 1967-68, 1969, 1976, 2004 (Tierra del Fuego), 2005 (Tierra del Fuego). Kerguelen Island, 1971. Costa Rica, 1973, 1975. Tasmania, Australia, 1976-77. New Zealand, Tasmania, 1982-83. New Zealand, 1971, 1982-83, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2006, 2007.       Spain, 2000, 2001