Vitt, Dale Hadley   (1944 - )

Born 9 February 1944 in Missouri, USA;

Dale Vitt grew up in Washington, Missouri in a financially struggling family due to the death of his father when Dale was eleven years old.

After graduating from high school in 1962, he worked for a year at the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation.

In autumn 1963 he matriculated at Southeast Missouri State University and graduated there with B.S. in December 1966. He then matriculated at the University of Michigan and graduated in 1967 with M.S. and in 1970 with Ph.D.

His doctoral dissertation, is entitled "The Family Orthotrichaceae (Musci) in North America, North of Mexico".

While still a graduate student, in the winter of 1969-1970, he went on a two-and-a-half month expedition to New Zealand visiting the outlying Campbell Island.

At the University of Alberta, from 1970 to 1975 he was an assistant professor, from 1975 to 1980 an associate professor, and from 1980 to 2000 a full professor.

He became in 1970 a curator at the University of Alberta's Cryptogamic Herbarium and has continued the curatorial appointment until his retirement.

From 1992 to 2000 he was the director of the Devonian Botanic Garden, now called the University of Alberta Botanic Garden.

From 2000 to 2011 at Southern Illinois University, he was a professor and chair of the plant biology program.

He retired as professor emeritus in 2011.

He has collected mosses not only in the United States and Canada, but also in the Canary Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Fiji, Brazil, Peru, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Jamaica, China, Japan, and Asiatic Russia.

Source: Extracted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Hadley_Vitt
Portrait Photo: 2009, Researchgate

Collecting localities for 'Vitt, D.H.' from AVH (2024)

Data from 11,453 specimens in Australiasian herbaria.