B.S. City College of New York; M.S., University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. Systematic botanist, with specialization in conservation of biodiversity.
Sy in addition to his duties as Director, brings expertise in: biological infrastructure, biodiversity conservation, systematics of the paleotropical members of the genus Psychotria (Rubiaceae or Coffee family), floristics of Hawaii, the Pacific, Papuasia, and Malesia, to the Program. In his career, he has carried out fieldwork in various parts of the continental U.S., Hawaii, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea. Sy is BRIT's representative to the Ethnobotanical Products Investigation Consortium (EPIC), a consortium with scientists from the University of North Texas Health Science Center, and Texas Christian University. He is also involved with the studies of plants in the maintenance of human health.
Phone: (817) 335-8158
Fax: (817) 332-4112
E-mail: ssohmer@brit.org
