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First and foremost, Jennifer Doubt manages the botanical collections—the National Herbarium of Canada—at the Canadian Museum of Nature. That means she works to build, document and safeguard a public archive of over one million specimens of Canadian wild plants. To improve its impact in the world, she also works to improve access to this vast resource for the Canadian and international researchers, educators, students and enthusiasts who can put it to good use. A herbarium busy with botanists, collection experts, volunteers, visitors and students is one of her “happy places”!
Otherwise, look for her outside, in nature: Jennifer is an expert on Canadian mosses and their plant relatives. Mosses blanket much of Canada—especially in the Arctic and boreal regions—and make life possible for thousands of animal and plant species by providing essential food, habitat and other services. Jennifer works in the field and in the lab to document and protect Canada’s mosses through research and other collaborations, and by sharing her knowledge where it can be helpful.
As a senior research assistant in the botany and a member of the Arctic Flora of Canada and Alaska project, Paul Sokoloff’s work boils down to cataloguing plant and lichen biodiversity in the Arctic and beyond. On any given day, he may be in a faraway place doing field work, in the museum’s herbarium studying specimens, or taking part in outreach activities on behalf of the museum. In the quest for science, he’s had his clothes stolen in southern Labrador, flipped over a canoe full of samples in New Brunswick’s Jacquet River, and hiked to the top of McGill Mountain on Ellesmere Island while wearing rubber boots.
Paul first came to the Canadian Museum of Nature as a master’s student under the supervision of Research Scientist Lynn Gillespie (he determined that the Fernald’s milkvetch is not a plant species of its own). Two days after submitting his thesis, he was on a plane bound for Victoria Island in the Western Canadian Arctic as a museum field assistant and he hasn’t looked back since. Since then, Paul has embarked on nine Arctic expeditions with the museum, and has participated in multiple biological expeditions at the Mars Desert Research Station.