RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Mapping
- Data basing
- Inventorying
- Accessioning the Garden’s Living Collection
Personal Statement
As one of the two Plant Registrars, I help maintain data on the Living Collection in the Garden. I work to map, data base, inventory, and accession the Collection. Further areas that I work with are the identification and labeling of plants throughout the Garden, and I use AutoCAD to maintain and update the Garden Trails Map. I started volunteering with the Garden in 2007, and completed Desert Landscaper School at the Garden in the spring of 2011. My main interests in research and horticulture lie with promotion of best management practices of native plants in the urban desert landscape; water conservation through thoughtful landscaping in the southwest desert environment; and working to minimize the Phoenix Urban Heat Island Effect through the promotion of good landscaping practices and new planting technologies.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Mapping
- Data basing
- Inventorying
- Accessioning the Garden’s Living Collection
Personal statement
As one of two Plant Registrars, I use my analytical skills to map, data base, inventory, identify and accession the Garden’s Living Collection. I came to the Garden as a volunteer in 1989 and have volunteered with the Cactus Voucher Project since 1993. In 2002-2003 I completed several AZ Flora classes at ASU and began a floristic study of the Lime Creek area near Horseshoe Dam with another Research volunteer. We completed that study in 2006. I enjoy identifying and collecting plants wherever I go in AZ and particularly enjoy collecting cacti, having learned from the experts in the Research Department at the Garden. I am currently documenting the Opuntia near Nashville, Tennessee, my home town. I am interested in experientially communicating the brilliance of the natural world to preschoolers, young children and their parents.
Selected Publications
Goldman, Dawn and Joni Ward. 2010. A Survey of the Vascular Plants in the Area of Lime Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona: A Unique Upland Sonoran Desert Environment. Canotia 6(1): 1-25.
Webber, A. N., P. B. Gibbs, J. B. Ward and S. E. Bingham. 1993. Site-directed mutagenesis of the photosystem I reaction center: The proline cysteine motif. Jour. Biol. Chem. 268: 12990-12995.
Webber, A. N., S. E. Bingham, P. B. Gibbs, L. M. Misra, and J. B. Ward. 1992. Site directed mutagenesis of the photosystem I reaction center in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Murata, ed. Research in Photosynthesis Vol. I: 561-564.
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