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Chad Husby
Collections Manager & Botanist
Montgomery
Botanical Center
11901 Old Cutler Road
Miami, FL 33156 USA
305-667-3800
ext. 102
chad@montgomerybotanical.org
Summary
Dr. Chad Husby joined the
Montgomery Botanical Center in 2007 and has since been leading the
Collections Development department. Key activities include
acquisition and implementation of new technologies to improve
efficiency and support of fieldwork by MBC biologists. In
addition, Chad provides expertise for developing the tropical conifer
and flowering tree collections at MBC.
He endeavors to foster greater collaboration among botanical
institutions to advance plant collections, plant science and
horticulture. Through collaborative efforts with other botanical
institutions in the US and overseas, Chad has greatly expanded the
tropical conifer collection at MBC, which has become one of the largest
in the Americas with nearly 200 taxa.
Chad has worked in laboratory research, field research, statistics
research, floristic inventory, living collections development,
propagation of rare plant species for conservation, and botanical and
horticultural education.
Chad’s academic research has focused on plant ecophysiology,
biomechanics, horticulture, and statistical sampling. He is also
pursuing work in plant conservation and systematics.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Biology
Florida International University (2009)
Master of Applied Statistics
The Ohio State University (2000)
Master of Science in Horticulture
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2000)
Bachelor of Science, Majors in Biology and Mathematics
Alma College (1997)
Recent
research papers
Calonje, C, C. Husby, and M. Calonje. 2010.
Germination and Early Seedling Growth of Rare Zamia spp. in Organic and
Inorganic Substrates: Advancing Ex Situ Conservation Horticulture.
HortScience 45:679-683.
Namoff, S., C. E. Husby, J. Francisco-Ortega, L.
R. Noblick, C. E. Lewis, and M. P. Griffith. 2010. How well does
a botanical garden collection of a rare palm capture the genetic
variation in a wild population? Biological Conservation 143:1110-1117.
Griffith,
M. P., M. A. Calonje, D. W. Stevenson, C.
E. Husby, and D. P. Little. (In press 2009). Time,
place, and relationships: Cycad phenology in a phylogenetics and
biogeographic context. Botanical Review.
Griffith, M.P. L.R. Noblick, J.L. Dowe, C.E. Husby, and M.A. Calonje.
2008. Cyclone tolerance in New World Arecaceae:
biogeographic variation and abiotic natural selection. Annals of Botany
102(4):591-598.
Bennett, B.C. and C.E. Husby.
2008. Patterns of medicinal plant use: an examination of the
Ecuadorian Shuar medicinal flora using contingency table and binomial
analyses. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 116(3):422-430.
Husby, C.E., E.A. Stasny,
D.A. Wolfe and J.C. Frey. 2007. A Cautionary Note on
Unbalanced Ranked-Set Sampling. Journal of Statistical
Computation and Simulation 77(10):869-878.
Husby, C.E., D.A. Wolfe,
and E.A. Stasny. 2005. An Application of Ranked Set
Sampling for Mean and Median Estimation Using USDA Crop Production
Data. Journal of Agricultural, Biological & Environmental
Statistics 10(3):354-373.
Husby C.E., A.X.
Niemiera, J.R. Harris and R.D. Wright. 2003. Influence of
diurnal temperature on nutrient release patterns of three
polymer-coated fertilizers. HortScience 38 (3):387-389.
Recent
articles
Griffith, P., and C. Husby. 2010. The price of
conservation: measuring the mission and its cost. BGJournal 7: 12-14.
Calonje, M., C. Husby, and P. Griffith. 2009. The
Cycad Collection at Montgomery Botanical Center. Public Garden 24:
25-27.
Noblick, L., C. Husby and P. Griffith.
2008. The Palm Collection at Montgomery Botanical Center.
Public Garden, the Journal of the American Public Gardens Association
23(2)26-29.
Husby, C.E.
2008. The Colonel’s conifer legacy, new partnerships in long-term
conservation. Montgomery Botanical News 16(1):5.
Husby, C.E.
2007. Spira Mirabilis –
Spiral Form in Cycads. Montgomery
Botanical News. Montgomery Botanical News 15(2):5.
Field
experience
New
Caledonia (2008)
New Zealand (2008)
Scotland (2007)
Chile (2002, 2004, 2006)
Argentina (2004)
Jamaica (2004)
Panama (2001)
Service
Chair, Warm Climate
Conifer Curatorial Group, American Public Gardens Association
Board of Directors, The
Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden
Reviewer for American Journal of
Botany; “A Field Guide to Ferns and their Related
Families”, Houghton-Mifflin Publishers. 2005
Volunteer judge and teacher,
The Fairchild Challenge
Coordinator,
Environmental Immersion Day at MBC, in collaboration with The Fairchild
Challenge
Membership
American Public Gardens Association
Botanical Society of America
American Conifer Society
Tropical Flowering Tree Society
Web
authorship
The Giant Horsetails
Recent
presentations
“Conifers” Better Understanding through the Study of
Horticulture, monthly meeting, Broward County Extension Education
Division, Davie, FL, May 8, 2009
“Tropical Conifers.” Refining Your Garden: A Tropical
Gardening Symposium, Mounts Botanical Garden, West Palm Beach, FL,
February 7, 2009
“Ecophysiology and Biomechanics of Equisetum
giganteum in South
America”, Dissertation defense, Florida International University,
Miami, FL, March 24, 2009
Husby, C., R. Determann,
R. Moyroud, and B. Hall. “New Caledonian plants in North American
botanical gardens: a growing appreciation for an extraordinarily
unique and beautiful flora.” 5ème CIPAM, Colloque International
sur les Plantes Aromatiques et Médicinales, Noumea, New
Caledonia, November 3-6, 2008 - Poster
“Sharing and conserving plants in the 21st century”, a conservation
botanical garden perspective. American Public Gardens Association
Annual Conference, Pasadena, California, June 26, 2008
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