Mare Nazaire joined the Garden in 2013 and currently serves as the Administrative Curator of the RSA Herbarium. She earned her doctoral degree in Botany at Washington State University in 2013. Her research focuses on systematics of Mertensia (Boraginaceae), aquatic and wetland plants, floristics of California, including research in Red Rock Canyon State Park, and high elevation meadows of the Southern Sierra Nevada.
Briscoe, L., M. Nazaire, Allen, J.R., J. Baker, A.D. Davenport, J. Mansaray, C.A. McCormick, M. Santiago Coyle, and M. Schmull. 2022. Shining light on labels in the dark: guidelines for offensive collections materials. Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archive Professionals 18: 506–523.
Sullivan, J.R. and M. Nazaire. 2021. Specimen collection and preparation for a changing flora. Rhodora 993: 50–66.
Nazaire, M. 2020. Mertensia. In Flora of Oregon. Volume 2: Dicots A – F. S.C. Meyers, T. Jaster, K.E. Mitchell, T. Harvey, and L.K. Hardison [eds]. Botanical Research Institute of Texas Press.
Yost, J. M., K.D. Pearson, J. Alexander, E. Gilbert, L. Aerne Hains, T. Barry, R. Bencie, P. Bowler, B. Carter, R.E. Crowe, E. Dean, J. Der, A. Fisher, K. Fisher, L. Flores-Renteria, C.M. Guilliams, C. Hatfield, L. Hendrickson, T. Huggins, L. Janeway, C. Lay, A. Litt, S. Markos, S.J. Mazer, D. McCamish, L. McDade, M. Mesler, B. Mishler, M. Nazaire, J. Rebman, L. Rosengren, P.W. Rundell, D. Potter, A. Sanders, K.C. Seltmann, M.J. Simpson, G.A. Wahlert, K. Waselkov, K. Williams, and P.S. Wilson. 2019. The California phenology collections network: using digital images to investigate phenological change in a biodiversity hotspot. Madroño 66: 130–141.
Nazaire, M., X-Q. Wang, and L. Hufford. 2014. Geographic origins and patterns of radiation in Mertensia (Boraginaceae). American Journal of Botany 101: 104–118
Nazaire, M. and L. Hufford. 2014. Phylogenetic systematics of the genus of Mertensia (Boraginaceae). Systematic Botany 39: 268–303.
Nazaire, M. and L. Hufford. 2012. A broad phylogenetic analysis of Boraginaceae: implications for the relationships of Mertensia. Systematic Botany 37: 758–783.
Floristic Methods