2012 Ph.D. University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
2005 M.S. University of Colorado at Boulder
1999 B.A. University of Colorado at Boulder
2016-present Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
2013 - present Instructor, Department of Plant Biology
2015-present Co-Founder: PhytoScience Institute, Burlington, VT
Co-Founder: PhytoScience Consulting, Burlington, VT
Co-Founder: Nutraceutical Science Laboratories, Burlington, VT
Co-Founder: National Cannabis Certification Council, Burlington, VT
2013-present Co-Director: Fiddlehead Scientific Laboratories, Montpelier, VT
2012-present Executive Director: Vermont Patients Alliance Inc., Montpelier, VT
2005-2006 Coordinator Costal Waterbird Program: Massachusetts Audubon Society, MA
2003-2005 Assistant Curator: University of Colorado Museum (COLO), Boulder, CO
2016-present Medical Marijuana and Cannabis Professional Certificate (CME)
2016-present PHRM 200 (first offered as special topics) Medical Cannabis
2013-present ENVS 195/PBIO 195 Natural history and conservation of the Galapagos Islands and tropical Andes
2008 PBIO 195 Plants of Oaxaca
2006-2012 Teaching Fellow for:
BCOR 101 Genetics
PBIO 108 Plant Morphology and Evolution
PBIO 109 Plant Sytematics
PBIO 004 The Green World
Plant research: Cannabis horticultural and medical research V.S.A. Title 18 Chapter 86 (2012-present)
Botanical documentation and collection in Ecuador (2010-present)
Botanical collection in Bolivia (2010)
Botanical collection in Mexico (2008)
Botanical collection in Costa Rica (2008, 2007)
Morphological & molecular research in the evolution of the fern genus Polystichum
in Latin America (2006-present)
Creation of a dichotomous and interactive field key to the 30 most prominent vascular
plant families in tropical America (2006-present)
2011 Edgar T. Wherry Award for the Best Contributed Paper presented in the Pteridological Section of the Botanical Society of American at the Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO
2010 "Using herbarium specimens to redefine species boundaries: a case study of the fern genus Polystichum in the Andes", Symposium of the Botanical Society of America and the American Fern Society on "Leveraging the use of herbarium collections in modern systematics", Botany 2010 meetings, Providence, RI
2014 13th Smithsonian Biotanical Symposium, Smithsonian Washington, D.C.,"Do habitat shifts lead to an increase in diversification rates in the Dryopteridaceae?"
2015 "Do habitat shifts lead to an increase in diversification rates in the Dryopteridaceae?, 13th Smithsoian Biotanical Symposium "Next Generation Pteridology: An international conference on Lycophyte & Fern research", Washington, D.C.
2016 Vermont Association of Naturopathic Physicians Conference, Montpelier, VT "Medical Marijuana"
2017 Lyons B, McHenry MA, Barrington DS. Insights into evolution in Andean Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae) from expanded understanding of the cytosolic phosphoglucose isomerase gene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 112: 36-46.
2016 Moreo RE, Conack JP, McHenry MA, Barrington DS. Typification and synomymy of Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae) in Brazil and Argentina. Atca Botanica Brasilica. Phyotokeys (65): 91-105. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.65.8620. PMCID: PMC4957024
2014 McHenry MA, Barrington DS. Phylogeny and biogeography of extindusiate Andean Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae). American Journal of Botany (101): 365-375
2013 Condack JP, McHenry MA, Morero RE, Silvestre L, Barrington DS. Polystichum montevedense demystified: molecular and morphologic data reveal a cohesive, widespread South American species. American Fern Journal (103): 118-130
2013 McHenry MA, Sundue MA, Barrington DS. The fern genus Adenoderris (family insertis sedis) is artificial. Taxon (62): 1153-1160
2010 McHenry MA, Ranker TA. Ferns and Lyophytes of the Southern Rocky Mountain Region Online Interactive Key. Posted at https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/Polystichum/
Botanical Society of America
American Fern Society
American Society of Plant Taxonomists