M. W. Turner
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Name
Matt Warnock Turner
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Dates
1960 -
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Specialities
Spermatophytes
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Roles
Determiner, Author, Collector
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Movement Details
United States of America, Texas
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Notes
Author Notes: Texas
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http://blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu/magazine/2008/12/01/books/
Matt W. Turner, a marketing researcher at the McCombs School, has published his first book, “Remarkable Plants of Texas: Uncommon Accounts of our Common Natives” (University of Texas Press). More than a mere field guide, Turner’s book contains 65 entries about the state’s most common trees, shrubs and wildflowers and explores how they have figured into the lives of people in this area throughout history—from medicinal and culinary uses to economic subsistence. The book, with more than 100 photographs, provides a natural history of the state, surveying the human connections with Texas’ botanical landscape from prehistoric times to present. Turner is a member of the Natural Plant Society of Texas and frequently writes articles and lectures on botanical topics.
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from http://drmattturner.com/?page_id=2 :
Matt Warnock Turner is a market researcher at the University of Texas, McCombs School of Business, as well as a teacher, naturalist, and free-lance writer. Armed with a Master’s in Spanish (Harvard) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Yale), and having a botanist for a father, he approaches the natural world from a humanities perspective. Matt is as much at home making scientific collections in the field as he is doing archival research in early manuscripts.
His first book, Remarkable Plants of Texas: Uncommon Accounts of Our Common Natives, explores the little-known facts — be they archaeological, historical, material, medicinal, culinary, or cultural — behind our everyday botanical landscape. He has published several articles on botany in scientific journals, has given various lectures and nature walks at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and has contributed to their magazine, Wildflower. Matt is a former President of the Austin Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas and contributes regularly to their NPSOT News. A fifth-generation Texan, he is a native of Austin where he currently resides. -
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