Daniel Atha (born 1962[1]) is a botanist. In his work as a botanist he has collected plants in all 50 states of the United States, as well as several additional countries. Atha's work was focused on three areas: "floristics—what plants grow in a particular region; taxonomy—how to tell one plant from another, what to call it and what it's related to; and applied botany—how plants are used for food, medicine, shelter and other useful purposes."[2] Atha has been known as a prominent regional botanist, and the high-profile botanical projects with which he has been involved (such as the recent Spontaneous Flora of Central Park project) have garnered national and international attention.
Daniel Atha was the Director of Conservation Outreach at New York Botanical Garden. Atha was involved in work related to invasive plants in the greater-New York City region, including Westchester County.[2] While employed at the NYBG, Atha collected plant material for Merck, Pfizer, The National Cancer Institute, L’Oreal, Cornell Weill Medical Center and many other organizations.[3] Atha was also the Associate Editor for Brittonia. Atha co-developed the curriculum for the course Pressing Plants for Art and Science, as part of the certificate program in Botany offered through the New York Botanical Garden’s Continuing Education Program. He has taught hundreds of students the techniques for collecting and preserving museum-quality herbarium specimens.[citation needed]
In 2021, Atha left the New York Botanical Garden due to their vaccination mandate, and also that same year, protested against a state bill that Jeffrey Dinowitz had co-sponsored to add COVID-19 to the required immunizations to attend school, wearing a yellow badge that Jews were ordered to wear during the Nazi regime. Dinowitz said the "display of swastikas and yellow Stars of David [...] were repugnant and offensive".[4]
In 2022 he researched and wrote a report on the ecological history of Seneca Village for the Central Park Conservancy. [5] Through 2024, he has continued to collect specimens for taxonomic and floristic studies, teach plant collecting techniques and research the genus Persicaria (Smartweeds) of North America.[citation needed]
New York City EcoFloraedit
This project, in the prototyping phase through 2017, was designed to engage New York city residents in protecting and preserving New York City's native plant species. The project aimed to use citizen scientists to gather and organize data related to plants, animals, fungi, and habitats in the region. This data will then be synthesized with existing historic natural history collections and scientific publications. "The New York City EcoFlora will be a real-time, online, ongoing checklist of plants—the first ever to connect plants in the web of life in New York City—that will result in a dynamic resource for conservation planning as well as in New Yorkers that are better informed about the importance of urban ecologies and who can contribute to protecting them."[6]
Flora of Central Parkedit
One of Atha's research projects involved documenting and collecting every naturally occurring plant in Central Park. This project represents a collaboration between The New York Botanical Garden, the Central Park Conservancy and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The aims of this project are to document the wild flora of Central Park, and to provide an up-to-date botanical inventory "to aid on-going restoration, conservation, education and recreation programs and to document the flora for scientific, ecological and conservation studies."[7]
"We thought, 'Wow, Central Park is right in the middle of New York City, in the densest urban metropolitan region in North America,'" recalled Mr. Atha, who has studied plants in all 50 states, as well as Bolivia, Russia and Vietnam. "'And yet there is nobody documenting the flora today. How crazy is that?'"
Atha's parents were artists,[13] and he has been involved in several community projects related to the intersection of botany and art.[13]
Selected bibliographyedit
This section may contain excessive or irrelevant examples. Please help improve the article by adding descriptive text and removing less pertinent examples.(January 2021)
This list has been generated with information from Daniel Atha's former on the New York Botanical Garden website.
Atha, D. E. 2008. A new species of Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae: Acalyphoideae: Acalypheae) from Belize and adjacent Mexico and Guatemala. Brittonia 60: 185–189.
Kikodze, D., M. Tavartkiladze, T. Svanidze, D.E. Atha (editor of English text). 2007. Plants of Georgia. Field Guide. Tsignis Sakhelosno, Tbilisi, Georgia. 224 pp.
Bridgewater, S.G.M., D.J. Harris, C. Whitefoord, A.K. Monro, M.G. Penn, D.A. Sutton, B. Sayer, B. Adams, M. Balick, D.E. Atha, J. Solomon, B. Holst. 2006. A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of the Chiquibul Forest, Belize. Edinb. J. Bot. 63: 269–321.
Atha, D. E., L. Romero & T. Forrest. 2005. Bark volume determination of Bursera simaruba in Belize. Caribbean Journal of Science. 41: 843–848.
Atha, D. E. 2004. Polygonaceae. pp. 308–310 in N. Smith, S. A. Mori, A. Henderson, D. Stevenson and S. Heald (eds), Flowering Plants of the Neotropics. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Atha, D. E. 2004. Phytolaccaceae. pp. 292–294 in N. Smith, S. A. Mori, A. Henderson, D. Stevenson and S. Heald (eds), Flowering Plants of the Neotropics. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Balick, M. J., M. H. Nee & D. E. Atha. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 85: 1–246.
Ford, L. J., R. J. Hawkins, D. E. Atha. 2009. A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Mexico's Copper Canyon region. The Donning Company Publishers, Virginia Beach. 160 pp.
Atha, D. E. & W. Carr. 2010. First Report of Persicaria hispida (Polygonaceae) from North America North of Mexico (Texas). J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 4(2): 561–564.
Reveal, J. L. & D. E. Atha. (2010). New combinations and typifications in Bistorta, Persicaria, Polygonum and Rumex (Polygonaceae). Brittonia 62: 243–263.
Atha, D. E. , M. H. Nee & R. F. C. Naczi. 2010. Persicaria extremiorientalis (Polygonaceae) is established in the flora of the eastern United States of America. The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 137: 333–338.
Atha, D. E., J. D. Mitchell, S. K. Pell & F. R. Camacho. 2011. A new species of Comocladia (Anacardiaceae) from Belize and Guatemala. Brittonia 63: 370–374.
Reveal, J. L. & D. E. Atha. 2012. 8. Persicaria (L.) Mill. Smartweed, pp 236–250. in Cronquist et al. (eds), Intermountain Flora. The New York Botanical Garden Press, Bronx, NY.
Atha, D. E. 2012. New Vascular Plant County Records from Central Texas. Phytoneuron 2012-100: 1–3.
Muñoz-Rodríguez, P., J. M. Cardiel & D. E. Atha. 2014. Acalypha subgenus Linostachys (Euphorbiaceae, Acalyphoideae): a global review. Phytotaxa 166 (3): 199–221.
Atha, D. E., J. L. Reveal, K. N. Gandhi. 2014. (2298–2299) Proposals to conserve Persicaria maculosa, nom. cons., against Polygonum vernum and to reject the name Polygonum subg. Dioctus (Polygonaceae). Taxon 63: 689–690.
Atha, D., E. Feliciano, and A. Felber. 2014. New vascular plant county records from Bronx County, New York. Phytoneuron 2014-87: 1–2.
Atha, D, J. A. Schuler, and S. Lumban Tobing. 2014. Corydalis incisa (Fumariaceae) in Bronx and Westchester counties, New York. Phytoneuron 2014-96: 1–6.
Ingo, L., J. Moschny, V. N. Kerimov, M. Khutsishvili, D. E. Atha, R. P. Borris & D. Koomoa. 2015. Juniper extracts induce calcium signalling and apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells. Journal of Pharma and Pharmaeutical Sciences. 1: 1–7.
Lange, I., J. Moschny, K. Tamanyan, M. Khutsishvili, D. E. Atha, R. P. Borris & D. Koomoa. 2016. Scrophularia orientalis extract induces calcium signaling and apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells. International Journal of Oncology 48: 1608–1616. https://dx.doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2016.3373.
Atha, D., R. Alvarez, D. Feeser, M. Feder, Z. Wang, and R. Kelly. 2016. Gamochaeta pensylvanica (Asteraceae) is established in the New York flora. Phytoneuron 2016-22: 1–4. Published 3 March 2016. ISSN 2153-733X.
Simon, T., Al-Shaykh, D. Atha and K. Fowle. 2016. Paperwork and the Will of Capital. Hatje Cantz. 200pp.
Atha, D., T. Forrest, R. F. C. Naczi, M. C. Pace, M. Rubin, J. A. Schuler and M. Nee. 2016. The historic and extant vascular flora of the New York Botanical Garden. Brittonia 68: 245–277.
^Schneider, Aliya (16 November 2021). "Protestors against Dinowitz's school vaccine bill use Nazi imagery". Bronx Times.
^Atha, D. 2022. Historical Ecology of Seneca Village, 1600–1855. Research report for the Central Park Conservancy, unpublished. 189 pp.
^"New York City Ecoflora, New York Botanical Garden". www.nybg.org.
^"Central Park Flora: New York Botanical Garden". www.nybg.org.
^Foderaro, Lisa (2 July 2015). "A Mission to Catalog Hidden Life in Central Park". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
^"Partnerships for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM)". NYDEC. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
^"Plants Profile for Corydalis incisa (incised fumewort)". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
^"Press Release: New York Botanical Garden Experts Will Lead Effort to Document and Eradicate An Emerging Invasive Plant Species This Spring and Summer Along the Bronx River" (PDF). The New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
^"LibGuides. Invasive Plants. Emerging Invasive: Corydalis incisa". New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
^ ab"Flowers in the Gallery: A Melding of Art, Botany, and Politics". Science Talk Blog. New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
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Daniel Atha born 1962 1 is a botanist In his work as a botanist he has collected plants in all 50 states of the United States as well as several additional countries Atha s work was focused on three areas floristics what plants grow in a particular region taxonomy how to tell one plant from another what to call it and what it s related to and applied botany how plants are used for food medicine shelter and other useful purposes 2 Atha has been known as a prominent regional botanist and the high profile botanical projects with which he has been involved such as the recent Spontaneous Flora of Central Park project have garnered national and international attention Daniel E AthaBorn1962 age 61 62 Alma materCity University of New YorkKnown forFloristicsAcalypha plant family Polygonaceae plant family Scientific careerFieldsBotanyInstitutionsNew York Botanical GardenAuthor abbrev botany Atha Contents 1 Career 1 1 New York Botanical Garden 1 1 1 New York City EcoFlora 1 1 2 Flora of Central Park 1 1 3 Emerging Invasive Corydalis incisa 2 Art 3 Selected bibliography 4 References 5 External linksCareer editNew York Botanical Garden edit Daniel Atha was the Director of Conservation Outreach at New York Botanical Garden Atha was involved in work related to invasive plants in the greater New York City region including Westchester County 2 While employed at the NYBG Atha collected plant material for Merck Pfizer The National Cancer Institute L Oreal Cornell Weill Medical Center and many other organizations 3 Atha was also the Associate Editor for Brittonia Atha co developed the curriculum for the course Pressing Plants for Art and Science as part of the certificate program in Botany offered through the New York Botanical Garden s Continuing Education Program He has taught hundreds of students the techniques for collecting and preserving museum quality herbarium specimens citation needed In 2021 Atha left the New York Botanical Garden due to their vaccination mandate and also that same year protested against a state bill that Jeffrey Dinowitz had co sponsored to add COVID 19 to the required immunizations to attend school wearing a yellow badge that Jews were ordered to wear during the Nazi regime Dinowitz said the display of swastikas and yellow Stars of David were repugnant and offensive 4 In 2022 he researched and wrote a report on the ecological history of Seneca Village for the Central Park Conservancy 5 Through 2024 he has continued to collect specimens for taxonomic and floristic studies teach plant collecting techniques and research the genus Persicaria Smartweeds of North America citation needed New York City EcoFlora edit This project in the prototyping phase through 2017 was designed to engage New York city residents in protecting and preserving New York City s native plant species The project aimed to use citizen scientists to gather and organize data related to plants animals fungi and habitats in the region This data will then be synthesized with existing historic natural history collections and scientific publications The New York City EcoFlora will be a real time online ongoing checklist of plants the first ever to connect plants in the web of life in New York City that will result in a dynamic resource for conservation planning as well as in New Yorkers that are better informed about the importance of urban ecologies and who can contribute to protecting them 6 Flora of Central Park edit One of Atha s research projects involved documenting and collecting every naturally occurring plant in Central Park This project represents a collaboration between The New York Botanical Garden the Central Park Conservancy and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation The aims of this project are to document the wild flora of Central Park and to provide an up to date botanical inventory to aid on going restoration conservation education and recreation programs and to document the flora for scientific ecological and conservation studies 7 The quote below comes from an interview Atha gave to The New York Times in 2015 8 We thought Wow Central Park is right in the middle of New York City in the densest urban metropolitan region in North America recalled Mr Atha who has studied plants in all 50 states as well as Bolivia Russia and Vietnam And yet there is nobody documenting the flora today How crazy is that Emerging Invasive Corydalis incisa edit Atha and others at the New York Botanical Garden and Lower Hudson PRISM one of eight Partnerships for Regional Invasive Species Management in New York State 9 coordinated a team of citizen scientists to document and remove Corydalis incisa 10 an emerging invasive species found along the Bronx River in Westchester County NY and Bronx County NY 11 12 Art editAtha s parents were artists 13 and he has been involved in several community projects related to the intersection of botany and art 13 Selected bibliography editThis section may contain excessive or irrelevant examples Please help improve the article by adding descriptive text and removing less pertinent examples January 2021 This list has been generated with information from Daniel Atha s former staff profile page on the New York Botanical Garden website Atha D E 2008 A new species of Acalypha Euphorbiaceae Acalyphoideae Acalypheae from Belize and adjacent Mexico and Guatemala Brittonia 60 185 189 Kikodze D M Tavartkiladze T Svanidze D E Atha editor of English text 2007 Plants of Georgia Field Guide Tsignis Sakhelosno Tbilisi Georgia 224 pp Bridgewater S G M D J Harris C Whitefoord A K Monro M G Penn D A Sutton B Sayer B Adams M Balick D E Atha J Solomon B Holst 2006 A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of the Chiquibul Forest Belize Edinb J Bot 63 269 321 Atha D E L Romero amp T Forrest 2005 Bark volume determination of Bursera simaruba in Belize Caribbean Journal of Science 41 843 848 Atha D E 2004 Polygonaceae pp 308 310 in N Smith S A Mori A Henderson D Stevenson and S Heald eds Flowering Plants of the Neotropics Princeton University Press Princeton Atha D E 2004 Phytolaccaceae pp 292 294 in N Smith S A Mori A Henderson D Stevenson and S Heald eds Flowering Plants of the Neotropics Princeton University Press Princeton Balick M J M H Nee amp D E Atha 2000 Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize with common names and uses Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 85 1 246 Ford L J R J Hawkins D E Atha 2009 A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Mexico s Copper Canyon region The Donning Company Publishers Virginia Beach 160 pp Atha D E amp W Carr 2010 First Report of Persicaria hispida Polygonaceae from North America North of Mexico Texas J Bot Res Inst Texas 4 2 561 564 Reveal J L amp D E Atha 2010 New combinations and typifications in Bistorta Persicaria Polygonum and Rumex Polygonaceae Brittonia 62 243 263 Atha D E M H Nee amp R F C Naczi 2010 Persicaria extremiorientalis Polygonaceae is established in the flora of the eastern United States of America The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 137 333 338 Atha D E J D Mitchell S K Pell amp F R Camacho 2011 A new species of Comocladia Anacardiaceae from Belize and Guatemala Brittonia 63 370 374 Reveal J L amp D E Atha 2012 8 Persicaria L Mill Smartweed pp 236 250 in Cronquist et al eds Intermountain Flora The New York Botanical Garden Press Bronx NY Atha D E 2012 New Vascular Plant County Records from Central Texas Phytoneuron 2012 100 1 3 Munoz Rodriguez P J M Cardiel amp D E Atha 2014 Acalypha subgenus Linostachys Euphorbiaceae Acalyphoideae a global review Phytotaxa 166 3 199 221 Atha D E J L Reveal K N Gandhi 2014 2298 2299 Proposals to conserve Persicaria maculosa nom cons against Polygonum vernum and to reject the name Polygonum subg Dioctus Polygonaceae Taxon 63 689 690 Atha D E Feliciano and A Felber 2014 New vascular plant county records from Bronx County New York Phytoneuron 2014 87 1 2 Atha D J A Schuler and S Lumban Tobing 2014 Corydalis incisa Fumariaceae in Bronx and Westchester counties New York Phytoneuron 2014 96 1 6 Ingo L J Moschny V N Kerimov M Khutsishvili D E Atha R P Borris amp D Koomoa 2015 Juniper extracts induce calcium signalling and apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells Journal of Pharma and Pharmaeutical Sciences 1 1 7 Lange I J Moschny K Tamanyan M Khutsishvili D E Atha R P Borris amp D Koomoa 2016 Scrophularia orientalis extract induces calcium signaling and apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells International Journal of Oncology 48 1608 1616 https dx doi org 10 3892 ijo 2016 3373 Atha D R Alvarez D Feeser M Feder Z Wang and R Kelly 2016 Gamochaeta pensylvanica Asteraceae is established in the New York flora Phytoneuron 2016 22 1 4 Published 3 March 2016 ISSN 2153 733X Simon T Al Shaykh D Atha and K Fowle 2016 Paperwork and the Will of Capital Hatje Cantz 200pp Atha D T Forrest R F C Naczi M C Pace M Rubin J A Schuler and M Nee 2016 The historic and extant vascular flora of the New York Botanical Garden Brittonia 68 245 277 The standard author abbreviation Atha is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name 14 References edit Harvard University Herbaria amp Libraries kiki huh harvard edu Retrieved 11 May 2017 a b Daniel Atha The New York Botanical Garden Retrieved 15 June 2016 About NYFA Schneider Aliya 16 November 2021 Protestors against Dinowitz s school vaccine bill use Nazi imagery Bronx Times Atha D 2022 Historical Ecology of Seneca Village 1600 1855 Research report for the Central Park Conservancy unpublished 189 pp New York City Ecoflora New York Botanical Garden www nybg org Central Park Flora New York Botanical Garden www nybg org Foderaro Lisa 2 July 2015 A Mission to Catalog Hidden Life in Central Park The New York Times Retrieved 15 June 2016 Partnerships for Regional Invasive Species Management PRISM NYDEC Retrieved 17 August 2020 Plants Profile for Corydalis incisa incised fumewort plants usda gov Retrieved 13 March 2017 Press Release New York Botanical Garden Experts Will Lead Effort to Document and Eradicate An Emerging Invasive Plant Species This Spring and Summer Along the Bronx River PDF The New York Botanical Garden Retrieved 13 March 2017 LibGuides Invasive Plants Emerging Invasive Corydalis incisa New York Botanical Garden Retrieved 13 March 2017 a b Flowers in the Gallery A Melding of Art Botany and Politics Science Talk Blog New York Botanical Garden Retrieved 15 June 2016 International Plant Names Index Atha External links edit nbsp Biography portal Atha Daniel Author page on Harvard University s Index of Botanists Atha Daniel Author Detail page on the International Plants Names Index Publications by Daniel E Atha at ResearchGate Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Daniel E Atha amp oldid 1217578831, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
