D. Jean Lodge is a botanist for the
USDA Forest Service in their Forest Products
Laboratory in Puerto Rico. She has worked in
Puerto Rico for the past 17 years as an mycoecologist
and as a taxonomic mycologist. Developing base line
information on fungal biodiversity in the Greater
Antilles has long been Jean's dream. She organized
this impressive group of mycologists to work on the
Basidiomycetes of the Greater Antilles project and
in collaboration with Tim Baroni, wrote the proposal
which was funded by the National Science Foundation.
Jean is also actively involved in providing information
and logistic support for researchers working on biodiversity
research on other groups of fungi, especially the Ascomycetes.
E-mail address: DJLodge@coqui.net