Irwin M. Brodo (born 1935) is an emeritus scientist at the

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, in

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, Ontario, Canada. He is an authority on the identification and biology of lichens. Irwin Brodo was honored in 1994 with an

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presented to him by the International Association for Lichenology. Brodo did his undergraduate studies at Columbia University, and received a master's degree from Cornell University. He earned a Ph.D. in lichenology under the supervision of Henry Imshaug at

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. He later went on to teach at Université Laval and the

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, and he also supervised master's students at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. Brodo's list of publications includes 75 research papers, 8 popular articles, 22 reviews and 6 editorials and obituaries. In 1993, Brodie was awarded the Mary E. Elliot Service Award for his meritorious service to the Canadian Botanical Association. One of Irwin Brodo's great achievements was the publication in 2001 of the 795 page book, "Lichens of North America" with high-quality photographs of lichens taken by Sylvia Sharnoff and

Stephen Sharnoff Stephen Sharnoff is a photographer, especially of botanical and lichen subjects. He specializes in close-up botanical color work. He is also a research associate at the University and Jepson Herbaria of the University of California, Berkeley and ...

. It won the 2002 National Outdoor Book Award (Nature Guidebook). In 2016, the trio, with additional collaborator Susan Laurie-Bourque, produced ''Keys to Lichens of North America: Revised and Expanded''. In 2013, Brodo was presented with an honorary doctorate from Carleton University, "in recognition of his distinguished career in lichenology and scientific leadership in the international biosystematics community".

Eponyms

Several lichen taxa have been named to honour Brodo. These eponyms include: *''

Brodoa ''Brodoa'' is a genus of three species of foliose lichens in the family Parmeliaceae. The genus, circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon ...

'' (1987) *''

Bactrospora brodoi ''Bactrospora'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi of uncertain familial placement in the order Arthoniales. It was circumscribed by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo (13 May 1824 – 25 May 1860) was an Italian pale ...

'' (1993) * ''Bryoria trichodes'' subsp. ''brodoana'' (1998) *''

Lecanora brodoana ''Lecanora'' is a genus of lichen commonly called rim lichens.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, Lichens in the genus ''Squamarina'' are also called rim lichens. Members of the genus have roughly ci ...

'' (1995) *''

Lecidea brodoana ''Lecidea'' is a genus of crustose lichens with a carbon black ring or outer margin (exciple) around the fruiting body disc (apothecium), usually (or always) found growing on (saxicolous) or in (endolithic) rock.Field Guide to California Lichens, ...

'' (2004)

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