Research Botanist

The Research Botanist will perform scholarly and professional research and curation on selected plant groups in the United States National Herbarium, utilizing a broad range of modern techniques in plant systematics and evolution for collections-based research. Initiate, develop, and personally participate in research and fieldwork concerning the biology, evolution, systematics, and classification of a specialty group of plants. Publish scholarly reports of descriptive and/or theoretical nature based on own field and experimental work, study of collections in this and other institutions, and on existing scholarly publications. Serve as a consultant and expert advisor on professional matters in this area to colleagues, Federal agencies, other governments, institutions, organizations. Seek non-departmental funding from sources within and beyond the Smithsonian.