Nick Bard (MS, 2018) recently published his M.S. thesis research in Conservation Genetics with co-authors Associate Professor Chris Miller and Professor Emeritus Leo P Bruederle (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10592-020-01326-x).  Using ddRADseq, they document higher than expected population genomic diversity and paraphyly in the imperiled and narrowly distributed edaphic endemic sedge Carex scirpoidea subsp. convoluta (Cyperaceae), which is primarily limited to alvar soils on the northern shores of Lake Huron.  Nick received considerable support from Integrative Biology, as well as the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and Botanical Society of America.  He is currently a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Botany at The University of British Columbia.