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SYLVIA DURAN SHARNOFF
STEPHEN SHARNOFF

Sylvia Sharnoff lost her struggle with cancer on December 31, 1998. Few things pleased her more than to know that, because of her efforts, someone had begun to notice and appreciate lichens. She was an intensely creative and loving person, an artist in many media, and a serious researcher, as well as a loving wife and mother. She is deeply missed.

You can contact Stephen Sharnoff at lichen@idiom.com , or visit the website of his and Sylvia's photos on a variety of subjects at http://www.sharnoffphotos.com.

Current projects:

• A field guide to the lichens of California
• A field guide to the wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada of California (with Joanna Clines). Visit http://www.sierraplants.com for more information and photos
• A book on biological soil crusts of the western United States (with Dr. Jayne Belnap, US Geological Survey and Dr. Roger Rosentreter, US Bureau of Land Management.) --in press
• A photographic book on the cemeteries of Paris (if any publishers out there are interested in this subject, please contact Stephen)

Most images in the Sharnoff's files are available for publication or as gallery prints. Please send requests or inquiries to Stephen Sharnoff.

Honorary appointments for the North American Lichen Project (the photographic fieldwork for Lichens of North America)

Research associates, Missouri Botanical Garden
Research collaborators, National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution)
Museum associates, Canadian Museum of Nature

Articles (text and photographs)

National Geographic Magazine (February, 1997)
National Geographic France (reprint of US article with additional photos, February 2001)
Smithsonian Magazine (July, 1991, and April, 1984)
Equinox (Canada) (October, 1992)
Nature Canada (Spring, 1991)
Pacific Discovery (Summer, 1992)
Reader's Digest (Canada and France) (1993)
Donna Moderna (Italy) (1992)
Grolier encyclopedia yearbooks (1992)
Research and Exploration (National Geographic Society), (1994)
San Jose Mercury News (March, 1992 and August, 1991)
The Museum of California (April/May, 1984)
Sacramento Union Sunday Magazine (July, 1984)

Magazine and newspaper photo credits

National Geographic Magazine
Geo (Germany, France and Japan)
Discover
Fremontia
Nature Canada
Science
Pacific Discovery
Science News
Harrowsmith/Country Life
The New York Times
San Diego Union Tribune
Anchorage Daily News

Calendar credits

Bo-Tree Wildflower Datebooks (1987, 1988, 1989)
National Wildlife Calendar, Falcon Press (1993)
Kodak Desk Calendar (1993)
Findhorn Trees for Life Diary (1993)

Photos--entire books

Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest by Bruce McCune and Linda Geiser. Oregon State University Press (1997)
Lichens of North America by Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff and Stephen Sharnoff. Yale University Press (in press)

Field identification guide (text and photos)

Common Lichens of the Tongass National Forest. USDA Forest Service (1991)

Trade book photo credits

Audubon Field Guides (7 volumes). Chanticleer Press
Backroads of America, Crescent Books (1992)
American Garden Guides (several in this series). Alfred A. Knopf
Common Rocky Mountain Lichens by Larry St. Clair. 1999. Brigham Young University and USDA Forest Service

Textbook photo credits

Text and photos included in Elements of Writing, Grade 8, Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Simon & Schuster
Mosby
John Wiley & Sons
Prentice-Hall
Wm. C. Brown
West Publishing

Exhibitions (photographs and text)

"Lichens: Fine Details of the Natural Landscape" (1984). Originated at the Oakland Museum; most recently at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University

"Lichens of the Tongass National Forest" and "Monitoring Air Quality with Lichens" (1991) Produced for USDA Forest Service

Stock Agency

National Geographic Society Image Collection

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