Richard B. Searles, Professor Emeritus of Botany

Please note: Richard has left the "Duke Herbarium" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	049 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-7336
Email Address:

Education:

Ph.D.	University of California, Berkeley	1965
B.A.	Pomona College	1958

Specialties:

Algae

Research Interests: Seaweed flora of the Southeastern US and the Caribbean.

Current projects: Seaweed flora of Yucatan, Mexico

Keywords:

Bermuda • Biogeography • Caribbean Sea • Ecology • Marine algae • Mexico • North Carolina • Red algae

Recent Publications

1. Mendoza-González, AC; Mateo-Cid, LE; Searles, RB, Yucatán seaweeds from the offshore waters of Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Botanica Marina, vol. 50 no. 5-6 (December, 2007), pp. 280-287, WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH, ISSN 0006-8055 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
2. Mateo-Cid, LE; Mendoza-González, AC; Searles, RB, A checklist and seasonal account of the deepwater Rhodophyta around Cozumel Island on the Caribbean coast of Mexico, Caribbean Journal of Science, vol. 42 no. 1 (April, 2006), pp. 39-52, ISSN 0008-6452 [Gateway.cgi]  [abs]
3. Mateo-Cid, LE; Mendoza-González, AC; Searles, RB, New Mexican records of marine algae including crouania mayae sp. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta), Caribbean Journal of Science, vol. 38 no. 3-4 (December, 2002), pp. 205-221, ISSN 0008-6452 [Gateway.cgi]  [abs]
4. Mendoza-González, AC; Mateo-Cid, LE; Searles, RB, New records of benthic marine algae from isla Cozumel, Mexico: Phaeophyta and Chlorophyta, Bulletin of Marine Science, vol. 66 no. 1 (December, 2000), pp. 119-130, ISSN 0007-4977 [Gateway.cgi]  [abs]
5. Schneider, CW; Searles, RB, Notes on the marine algae of the Bermudas. 3. Avrainvillea sylvearleae, Discosporangium mesarthrocarpum, and Peyssonnelia valentinii, Journal of Phycology, vol. 34 no. 1 (February, 1998), pp. 180-188, WILEY, ISSN 0022-3646 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]