Jill Weber

Jill Weber

Lecturer, Botany
Curator, Herbarium

ABOUT

Course Areas

botany

EDUCATION

  • MS, Botany, University of Maine, 1987
  • BA, Botany, University of Northern Colorado, 1984

HONORS & AWARDS

2013
Dixon Schoodic Scholar
The Schoodic Institute
2013
Woman of the Year
Mount Desert Island YWCA
2008
Maine State Conservation Award
New England Wild Flower Society
2005
Merrit Lyndon Fernald Award
New England Botanical Club

PUBLICATIONS

  • 2013 Arsenault, M, GH Mittelhauser, D Cameron, AC Dibble, A Haines, SC Rooney and JE Weber. Sedges of Maine: A Field Guide to the Cyperaceae. University of Maine Press, Orono, ME. 712 pp.
  • 2010 Mittelhauser, GH, LL Gregory, SC Rooney and JE Weber. Plants of Acadia National Park, Maine. University of Maine Press, Orono, ME. 530 pp.
  • 2008 Mittelhauser, GH, SC Rooney, JE Weber, B Nichols. October 2008. Inventory, monitoring and control of invasive plants on Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Maine Natural History Observatory, Gouldsboro, ME
  • 2008 Mittelhauser, G, JE Weber, SC Rooney, B Southard. October 2008. Natural Resource Assessment of the Western Head and Eastern Knubble Preserves, Washington County, Maine
  • 2007 Weber, JE and SC Rooney. December 2007. Management Plans For Invasive Plant Species of Acadia National Park. Natural Resources Report NPS/NER/NRR–2007/018. National Park Service. Boston, MA.
  • 2005 Greene, CW, LL Gregory, GH Mittelhauser, SC Rooney and JE Weber. Vascular Flora of the Acadia National Park Region, Maine. Rhodora Vol.107, No. 930, Spring, 2005
  • 2005 Mittelhauser, Glen, Sally Rooney and Jill Weber. The Vascular Flora of Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge, Egg Rock, Frenchman Bay, Maine. Maine Natural History Observatory, Gouldsboro, ME
  • 2005 Weber, JE, SC Rooney, and G Mittelhauser. Rare Plant Monitoring at Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge. Natural History Observatory, Gouldsboro, ME.
  • 2005 Weber, JE and SC Rooney. Efficacy of Utilizing Volunteers to Conduct Rare Plant Monitoring in Acadia National Park. Natural Resources Report NPS/NER/NRR—2005/003.
  • 2004 Greene, CW, JE Weber, SC Rooney and KD Anderson. Invasive Plant Species Distribution and Abundance in Acadia National Park. Tech. Report NPS/NER/NRTR—2004/003.
  • 2002 Greene, CW, JE Weber and SC Rooney. Rare Plant Monitoring in Acadia National Park. Tech. Report NPS/BSO-RNR/NRTR/2002-101994 (with S Rooney) Viola canadensis: a new state record for Maine. Maine Naturalist 2(1):
    45-46.
  • 1993 (with T Eyesteinsson and MS Greenwood) Management of a prototype indoor orchard for accelerated breeding of larch. Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Misc. Report 377.18 pp.
  • 1990 (with KW Hutchison, CD Sherman, SS Smith, PB Singer, and MS Greenwood) Maturation in Larch II. Effects of age on photosynthesis and gene expression in developing foliage. Plant Phys. 94:1308-1315.
  • 1989 (with CS Campbell) Breeding system of a hybrid between a sexual and an apomictic species of Amelanchier, shadbush (Rosaceae, Maloideae). Amer. J. Bot. 76:341-347.