State Botanist of Massachusetts with the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program. Learn more about our program, which protects numerous taxa, by viewing https://www.mass.gov/orgs/masswildlifes-natural-heritage-endangered-species-program

In the Summer of 2023 I'll be teaching iNaturalist techniques while botanizing the Maine Coast at Eagle Hill Institute, as I did last year. See https://www.eaglehill.us/programs/sems-weeklong/flyers-weeklong-pdfs/2023-Wernerehl.pdf

In addition to my role as state botanist, I am also treasurer of New England Botanical Society (see www.rhodora.org). We fund a number of grants and awards for research on New England flora and maintain the NEBC Herbarium at Harvard University. Our vascular plant herbarium (NEBC) contains over 253,000 collections from the six New England states, including historic collections by Merritt Fernald, Kate Furbish, James Watson Robbins, and William Oakes. We also have a non-vascular herbarium.