Elisabeth Wheeler

Education
B.A. Reed College, Portland, Oregon
M.A. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Research Interests:
Systematic and ecologic wood anatomy; investigating changes in wood structure and forest composition through geologic time [Cretaceous - present].

Current Projects:

• "Wood identification, Collection Enhancement, and Web Access" NSF BRC 0237368. Among the objectives is to create a web site InsideWood to help with wood identification and to provide brief wood anatomical descriptions. Database at 5200+ entries for modern woods, 14,000 digital images archived and to be available on-lline by May 2005. [with Shirley Rodgers, Troy Simpson, J.A. Bartlett, Kathy Brown, NCSU Libraries; collaborators, P. Baas, National Herbarium Netherlands, P. Gasson, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K.]
• Ancient Woods of Big Bend National Park, TX, [with Tom Lehman, Texas Tech]
• Eocene Woods of Central Oregon [with Steven Manchester, University of Florida, Gainesville]
• Vantage Fossil Forest, Washington. [funding from Evolving Earth Foundation]
• Paleocene-Eocene Woods of the Denver Basin [funding from Greater Denver Gem and Mineral Club, with Bob Raynolds, Denver Museum of Nature and Science]
  
  

Memberships:

• International Association of Wood Anatomists, Co-Editor of IAWA
• Journal and Pan-American Regional Representative
• Botanical Society of America

Publications 2000-2004 [peer-reviewed]:

• Wheeler, E.A. & T.M. Lehman. . Submitted. Cretaceous – Paleocene conifer woods from Big Bend National Park, Texas.
  
• R. Jagels, G.E. Visscher, & E.A.Wheeler. In press. Short communication. An Eocene High Arctic angiosperm wood. IAWA Journal.
  
• Baas, P., F.W. Ewers, S.D. Davis, & E.A. Wheeler. 2004. The evolution of xylem physiology. Pp. 273-296 in: Hemsley, A.R. & I. Poole (eds.). Evolution of plant physiology. From whole plants to ecosystems. Linnean Society Symposium Series No. 21. Elsevier Academic Press.
  
• Baas, P., S. Jansen, & E.A. Wheeler. 2003. Ecological adaptations and deep phylogenetic splits—evidence and questions from the secondary xylem. Pp 221-240 in T.F. Stuessy, V. Mayer, E. Hörandi. (eds.). Deep morphology. Toward a renaissance of morphology in plant systematics. Regnum Vegetabile Volume 141. Koeltz Scientific Books.
  
• Wheeler, E.A. & T.M. Michalski. 2003. Paleocene and Eocene woods of the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 38: 29-43
  
• Lavin, M., M.F. Wojciechowski, P. Gasson, C. Hughes, & E. Wheeler. 2003. Phylogeny of robinioid legumes (Fabaceae) Revised: Coursetia and Gliricidia recircumscribed, and a biogeographic appraisal of the Caribbean endemics. Systematic Botany 28: 387-409.
  
• Wheeler, E.A. & S.R. Manchester. 2002. Woods of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon, USA. IAWA Journal Supplement 3, 188 pp.
  
• Wheeler, E.A. 2001. Fossil dicotyledonous woods from the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado. Pp 197—214 in E. Evanoff, K.M. Gregory-Wodzicki, & K.R. Johnson (eds.), Stratigraphy and fossil flora of the Florissant Formation, Colorado. Proceedings Denver Museum of Science and Nature, Series 4 (1).
  
• Lehman, T.M. & E.A. Wheeler. 2001. Fossil dicotyledonous forest from the Upper Cretaceous of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Palaios. 16: 102-108.
  
• Baas, P. & E.A. Wheeler. 2001. A survey of the wood anatomy of the PROSEA timbers. pp. 51--60 in: L.G. Saw, L.S. Chua & K.C. Khoo (eds.), Taxonomy - the cornerstone of biodiversity. Proceedings of the Fourth International Flora Malesiana Symposium 1998. FRIM, Kuala Lumpur.
  
• Wheeler, E.A. 2001. Wood: Macroscopic Anatomy. In: Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology. Elsevier Press.
  
• Baas, P. & E.A. Wheeler. 2000. Wood structure of southeast-asian timbers - the PROSEA woods reviewed. Pp 1--9 In: Y.S. Kim (ed.) New Horizons in Wood Anatomy. Chonnam National University Press, Korea.
  
• Wheeler, E.A. & T.M. Lehman. 2000. Late Cretaceous woody dicots from the Aguja and Javelina Formations, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA. IAWA Journal 21: 83-120.
  
• Baas, P., E.A. Wheeler, & M.C. Chase. 2000. Dicotyledonous wood anatomy and the APG system of angiosperm classification. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 134: 3-17.

Academic and Professional Awards:

• Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor (Teaching Award) 1999-2001
• College of Forest Resources Nominee for Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, 1998.
• Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Forest Resources 1996
• International Academy of Wood Science, Fellow, elected 1995
• Coal Geology Division, Best Paper Award, Geological Society of America, 1995 Annual Meeting [Crowley, S.S., P.D. Warwick, E.A. Wheeler, J.C. Hower, and J. Pontolillo. 1995. Identification of wood in Tertiary lignites from the Gulf Coast Province (LA, TEX, KY) and North Dakota. Abstracts Geological Society of American Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, A-245.
• Faculty development award from Provost's Office 1995
• Cichan Award, Paleobotanical Section, BSA, 1992, for 1991 publication: Paleocene Dicotyledonous Trees from Big Bend National Park, Texas. Variability in Wood Types Common in the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary, and Ecological Inferences. Amer. J. Bot. 78: 658-671. E.A. Wheeler

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