About Me

Courses taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Teaching Recognition

Dorothy Powelson Capstone Teaching Award (2024)

Graduate student teachers recognized for excellence with 2023-24 Teaching Assistant Awards (UW–Madison)

Webinars

• Triphora: North America's Most Enigmatic Orchid Genus – Native Orchid Conference (January 24, 2023)
• Orchids of Florida – Florida Native Plant Society, Ixia Chapter (October 4, 2021)
• Mycoheterotrophic Orchids – Native Orchid Conference (February 27, 2024)
• Mosses of Florida – Florida Native Plant Society, Cuplet Fern Chapter (May 10, 2021)

Radio

• Wisconsin's Orchids – WGTD (September 9, 2022)
• Wisconsin's Mosses – WGTD (May 19, 2022)

Educational Videos

• Bryophyte and Lichen education video series, produced with funding from the United States National Science Foundation (DBI-2001509) for the collaborative project, Building a Global Consortium of Bryophytes and Lichens: Keystones of Cryptobiotic Communities (GLOBAL) (https://globaltcn.utk.edu/), in partnership with the Field Museum, Chicago and University of Alaska-Fairbanks. With Nkosi Evans and Todd Widhelm.
  • Learning Glass: Bryophytes Versus Lichens Comparison (May 2023)
  • Learning Glass: How to ID Mosses (May 2023)
  • Learning Glass: Life Cycles of Bryophytes and Lichens (May 2023)

Workshops and Walks

• An Introduction to the Lovely Mosses and Other Bryophytes of UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve, with Nkosi Evans (Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, August 27, 2023)

Magazines and Other Writing

• “Ghost World: Efforts to save the ghost orchid”
  The Fine Print, Gainesville, Florida (Spring 2017)
• “CTRL+S the Planet: UF supercomputer helps crunch data that tells us the effects of climate change”
  The Fine Print, Gainesville, Florida (Winter 2016)
• “Troubled Waters: Increased dumping of waste into our water has made an impact”
  The Fine Print, Gainesville, Florida (Spring 2016)
• “Intruder Alert: Alachua County is one of the top counties in the state for numbers of invasive species – What does that mean?”
  The Fine Print, Gainesville, Florida (Fall 2015)
• The Natural History of the Three Birds Orchids
  The Wisconsin Flora, Botanical Club of Wisconsin (Fall 2020)

Papers

• Manchester, S., Dilcher, D., Judd, W., Corder, B., Basinger, J. 2018. Early eudicot flower and fruit: Dakotanthus gen. nov. from the Cretaceous Dakota Formation of Kansas and Nebraska, USA. Acta Palaeobotanica 58: 27–40.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acpa-2018-0006

Presentations

• Session Co-organizer: From temperate deciduous forest to alpine tundra: Elevational gradients in plant form and function on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, USA. Charton, K., Anderson, S., Taylor, L., Chan, P., Corder, B., Givnish, T., Tourville, J., Peyton, M., Berry, L., Wintermute, T., Kiel, N.
  Ecological Society of America Conference (ESA 2024) | Long Beach, California
• Session Talk: Uncovering hidden mycoheterotrophs in the orchid flora of Wisconsin. Corder, B., Cameron, K.
  Botanical Society of America Conference (Botany 2024) | Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Session Talk: Partial mycoheterotrophy and fungal associations of Triphora trianthophoros, a rare North American orchid. Corder, B., Cameron, K.
  Botanical Society of America Conference (Botany 2023) | Boise, Idaho
• Invited Talk: Partial mycoheterotrophy in orchids: Its evolution, ecology, and biogeography.
  Native Orchid Conference 2022 | Port Angeles, Washington
• Poster: Building a toolbox for authentic undergraduate research experiences in evolutionary genetics using the sexually dimorphic moss Ceratodon purpureus. Corder, B., Lahav, S., Scola, D., Orr, J., Burtscher, W., Holiman, E., Payton, A., McDaniel, S.
  Evolution 2016 | Austin, Texas

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