Diatoms of North America
Sarah Jane Rushforth
Taxon Contributor
Phycologist Rushforth Phycology
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from. - Terry Tempest Williams
Sarah Rushforth works on biological monitoring and assessment projects through taxonomic evaluation of freshwater algal communities, including diatoms, in streams, lakes, rivers, wetlands, and reservoirs in the Western United States. She is interested in the ecological significance of algae as biological indicators of water quality and environmental change. Sarah has spent several summers at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory studying diatom and soft algal taxonomy and environmental data analysis. After being a student there, she returned to the lab as the Kingston Teaching Fellow for the Ecology and Systematics of Diatoms course. Sarah has a master’s degree in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University.