As an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at NC State University, I aim to help students explore botanical diversity through direct observation, fieldwork, laboratory activities, and natural history collections. Mentoring is also an important part of my teaching, including student projects in botanical identification, ecology, herbarium research, and science communication.

• Teaching
• Mentoring

• Research Page
• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate

I enjoy sharing natural history and botanical research through public talks, writing, workshops, and educational media.

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• Science Communication Page

Talks and Webinars

• iNaturalist for Botanists and Other Plant Enthusiasts — Botanical Club of Wisconsin (December 9, 2025)
• The Secret Life of Wisconsin’s Native Orchids — Madison Orchid Growers’ Guild (September 21, 2025)
• Mycoheterotrophic Orchids – Native Orchid Conference (February 27, 2024)
• Triphora: North America's Most Enigmatic Orchid Genus – Native Orchid Conference (January 24, 2023)
• Mosses of Florida — Florida Native Plant Society chapter (November 14, 2022)
• Orchids of Florida – Florida Native Plant Society, Ixia Chapter (October 4, 2021)
• 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

• Introduction to Moss Identification — University of Wisconsin–Madison (November 7, 2025)
• 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)

Panel Discussions

• Planting the Seeds of Science Communication — Botany 2022, Anchorage, Alaska

Magazines and Other Writing

• “The mysterious case of sassafras in Wisconsin” — Doyle, K. & Corder, B.
  Botanical Club of Wisconsin Newsletter (Spring 2026)
• The Natural History of the Three Birds Orchids
  The Wisconsin Flora, Botanical Club of Wisconsin (Fall 2020)
• “Ghost World: Efforts to save the ghost orchid”
  The Fine Print, Gainesville, Florida (Spring 2017)
• “Troubled Waters: Increased dumping of waste into our water has made an impact”
  The Fine Print, Gainesville, Florida (Spring 2016)
• “CTRL+S the Planet: UF supercomputer helps crunch data that tells us the effects of climate change”
  The Fine Print, Gainesville, Florida (Winter 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)

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• bdcorder@ncsu.edu
• brandoncorder95@gmail.com