Andrea Ottesen
Curriculum Vitae
University of Maryland
Department of Plant Science
and Landscape Architecture
Professional
Preparation:
PhD - Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture - University of Maryland College Park, MD (2008)
Research Scientist – Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE), University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Molecular
Ecology of Organic vs. Conventional Crops - Impact of Agrichemical Schedules on
microbial microflora with regard to public health and food safety, plant
pathology and sustainable agriculture.
Medicinal Plants Researcher- Jim Duke Green Pharmacy Gardens Fulton, MD; Iquitos, Peru (1997-2008)
Collaborative work with instruction, presentations, medicinal plant chemical database development.
Research Scientist – FDA / UMD College Park, MD (2005-2007)
Collaborative work with the Food and Drug Administration to develop molecular barcoding methods to distinguishing between two closely related species of Star Anise (one with potential toxicities).
Teaching Assistant – University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Introduction
to Horticulture – Labs and Lectures for 100-150 undergraduates.
Biological
Research Technician -Agricultural Research Service, USDA, U.S. National Arboretum Herbarium Washington, DC (2000-2002)
USDA Herbarium Researcher, Development of USNA herbarium website to display Type specimens: http://www.usna.usda.gov/Research/Herbarium/
Integrated Pest
Management (IPM) Technician /Horticultural Intern/ Arborist – J. Paul
Getty Trust Museum and Gardens Los Angeles, CA
Research Technician
Environmental Science Instructor/ Crisis Intervention Manager - Multnomah County Public Schools Portland, OR
BA - Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO
Publications:
Books:
Ottesen, Vasquez, Duke Amazonian Medicinal
Plants: Chemistry and Use (2007)
Duke, Bogenschutz-Godwin, Ottesen, Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America, CRC Press, (2008)
Book
Chapters:
In press: Ottesen,
Magnuson In: PATHOGENS AND TOXINS IN FOODS:
Challenges and Interventions; Natural
Toxins in Food Plants, American Society of Microbiology
In prep: Case study of
Barcoding Regions of Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA for use with Illicium spp.
Science - Journal of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS)–September 28, 2007 – (cover) First place tie for the National Science
Foundation’s Science Visualization Challenge
Journal
of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) – July 2007 (cover)
Latin American Medicinal Plants – in press - 2007, CRC
Press, (cover) – one hundred photographs of medicinal plant species.
Andean Medicinal Plants – (cover)
–one hundred color photos of Latin American medicinal plants, chemistry and
ethnobotanical use.
Amazonian Medicinal Plants – (cover) Chemistry
and ethnobotanical uses of one hundred Peruvian Amazonian Plants – 2007.
Herbal Gram - The Journal of the American Botanical Council,
July 2005, photographs.
Working Landscapes – Maryland Center for AGRO-Ecology,
September 2004, photographs.
The American Gardener – The Magazine of the
American Horticultural Society, September 01, May 2003, January 2003, March
2003 cont., photographs.
The American Gardener - The Magazine of the
American Horticultural Society, May 2002, illustration.
GQ Gentleman’s World - (Germany, Austria) – July 2003,
photographic composition.
The Herbal Epicure – 2001, Ballantine Wellspring Press, photo (cover).
Ornamental Grasses – The Amber
Wave –
1989, McGraw-Hill Inc., illustrations.
The New American Gardener – 1987, MacMillan
Publishing Company, illustrations.
The Potomac Almanac Newspaper – 1985–87, photographs and
illustrations.
September 2009 United States Botanic Garden: "Alphabet Soup" (in preparation)
2008 Penn Place: Garrett Park, Maryland, Botanicals
2007 Web Educational Exhibit: Plant Barcoding
Regions
2006 University of Maryland Permanent Exhibit: Calvert and Crossland Rooms, Stamp Student
Union: Maryland Native Plants
2005 Brookside Botanic Gardens: A Forest Herbarium
2004 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute – Panama – 'Recuerdos
Etnobotanicos: Chemistry
and Ethnobotany of Panamanian Rainforest Plants'
2004
Tai Sophia Institute for Botanical Healing – Columbia, Maryland –- “Amazonian
Medicinal Plants” - Multimedia presentation.
2002
United States National Arboretum “Discover the Herbarium of the U.S. National
Arboretum”
2002
United States Library of Congress Washington, DC -“A Tale of Two Gardens”, “Green Pharmacy” –
Multimedia presentation.
1997-98
The James A. Duke Herbal Vineyards Fulton, Maryland - “ A Tale of Two Gardens”, “Amazonian
Medicinal Plants”, “Green Pharmacy Herbarium” - Multimedia presentations.
1992-93 The 43 rd Street Artists Mall Portland, Oregon - “Mosaic Intersection” – “Medusa” - Two and three-dimensional mosaic.
Awards and Fellowships:
2007 First Place Winner – National Science
Foundation’s Science Visualization Challenge
–First place for an herbarium style botanical photograph of seaweed - Chondrus
crispus
2005 Sustainable Agriculture Research and
Education Assistantship, SARE Outstanding
research proposal; “Ecological Impacts of
Organic vs. Conventional Agriculture”.
2005 The Scott Award -Outstanding Graduate
Student in Horticulture – Department of
Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture.
2003 Spot Award -Agricultural Research Service
(ARS) – “For outstanding work in the
re-working of the Arboretum Herbarium homepage as well as outstanding
performance in creating the educational exhibit “Discover the National
Arboretum Herbarium”.
1997 The Lahr Fellowship - Fellowship to study Northeastern U.S.
native plants at the National Arboretum Native Plant Collection (Fern
Valley) and design interpretive materials to educate the public about the
collection.