Former Postdoctoral Researcher ventures to the frozen north and six feet of snow since his arrival at his new position as Assistant Professor

Ph. D., University of Newcastle upon Tyne and The Natural History Museum, London, 1997

• Mailing Address
Faculty of Environmental and Forest Biology
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
350 Illick Hall
1 Forestry Dr.
Syracuse, NY, USA 13210-2788
• Tel:  315-470-6791
• Fax: 315-470-6934
• E-mail: aweir@syr.edu  

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• Education
• Ph. D. (1997) University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. and The Natural History Museum, London, U.K. Thesis: Comparative Biological and Taxonomic Studies on Tropical and Temperate Laboulbeniales (Fungi, Ascomycota).
• B.Sc. (1986) University of Bradford, U.K. Environmental Science (Ecology Specialization) Upper Second Class degree with Honours.
• Research Experience
• April 1997-present: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Louisiana State University, Department of Biological Sciences.
• September 1993-March 1997: Junior Research Fellow, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Department of Biological and Nutritional Sciences. Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The Natural History Museum, Biodiversity Division, Department of Entomology.
• May 1990-September 1993: Senior Ecological Advisor, Industry Nature Conservation Association (Cleveland, U.K.). Advisor on ecological and nature conservation issues to multinational chemical, oil and steel industries, local government and nature conservation organisations. This included regular comment on and review of some of the early UK-produced Environmental Impact Assessments, production of a strategy document for nature conservation within the industrial sector, and the initiation of a taxonomic biodiversity database for industrially-owned land.
• August 1988-April 1990: Conservation Officer, Royal Society for Nature Conservation, Wildlife Trust (Cleveland). Duties included comment on possible ecological effects of development proposals, management of nature reserves, collection and storage of biological records for national ÒRecorderÓ database.
• August 1987-July 1988: Scientific Officer, Nature Conservancy Council. Ecological survey (Phase I) of Cleveland County assessing the extent and relative importance of habitats.
• August 1986-July 1987: Scientific Survey Team Leader, Nature Conservancy Council. Detailed vegetation surveys and mapping of a large and diverse National Nature Reserve.
• Teaching Experience
• Professional Societies
• British Mycological Society (1987-present)
• Mycological Society of America (1994-present)
• International Mycological Association (1994-present)

Refereed Publications

• Weir, A. (1992). A plea for help with a flora of Laboulbeniales (Fungi, Ascomycotina) for Great Britain and Ireland. Coleopterist 1(3): 14-15.
• Weir, A. (1993). Rare and interesting Laboulbeniales on Sudanese Coleoptera. Mycological Research 97: 509-512.
• Weir, A. and G. W. Beakes (1993). New British Laboulbeniales. Mycological Research 97: 1045-1055.
• Weir, A. (1994). Further records of Laboulbeniales from collections of British Coleoptera. Mycological Research 98: 433-444.
• Weir, A. and G. W. Beakes (1995). An introduction to the Laboulbeniales: a fascinating group of entomogenous fungi. Mycologist 9: 6-10.
• Weir, A. (1995). Two new species of Ilyomyces. Mycological Research 99: 789-792.
• Weir, A. and W. Rossi (1995). Laboulbeniales parasitic on British Diptera. Mycological Research 99: 841-849.
• Weir, A. (1996). A preliminary host-parasite checklist of British Laboulbeniales. The Entomologist 115: 50-58. Royal Entomological Society of London.
• Rossi, W. and A. Weir (1996). New species of Laboulbeniales (Fungi, Ascomycetes) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Canadian Journal of Botany 74: 77-83.
• Weir, A. and G. W. Beakes (1996). Correlative light- and scanning electron microscope studies on the developmental morphology of Hesperomyces virescens Mycologia 88(5): 677-693.
• Rossi, W. and Weir, A. (1997a). Laboulbenia pterostichi and its allies. Mycological Research 101: 129-134.
• Weir, A. and P.M. Hammond (1997b). Laboulbeniales on beetles: host utilization patterns and species richness of the parasites. Biodiversity and Conservation 6: 701-719.
• Rossi, W. and A. Weir (1997b). New and interesting Laboulbeniales from New Zealand. Canadian Journal of Botany 75: 791-798.
• Weir, A. (in press). Notes on the Laboulbeniales of Sulawesi. The genus Rickia Cavara. Mycological Research (accepted May 1997).
• Rossi, W. and A. Weir (in press). Triainomyces, a new genus of Laboulbeniales parasitic on the New Zealand pill-millipede, Procyliosoma tuberculatum Silv.

• Weir, A. and N. Allinson (1988). Wildlife Habitats in Cleveland. A report on the findings of the Phase I survey. Pp. 1-46. Nature Conservancy Council / Cleveland County Council.
• Allinson, N. and A. Weir (1988). An inventory of sites of biological interest in Cleveland. Pp. 1-71. Nature Conservancy Council / Cleveland County Council.
• Weir, A., D. Counsell, J. Hickling and M. Steele (1990). Cleveland Wildlife Strategy . Pp. 1-64. Cleveland County Council / Nature Conservancy Council.
• Weir, A. (1990). An industrial nature conservation strategy. Pp. 1-26. Industry Nature Conservation Association.
• Weir, A. and G. W. Beakes (1996). Biology and identification of species of Laboulbenia Mont. & C. P. Robin (Fungi, Ascomycetes) parasitic on alticine Chrysomelidae. Pp. 117-134. In: P. Jolivet and M. I. Cox [eds.] Chrysomelidae Biology Volume 2: Ecological Studies. SPB Academic Publishing, Amsterdam. The Netherlands.
• Weir, A. and P. M. Hammond (1997a). A preliminary assessment of species- richness patterns of tropical, beetle-associated Laboulbeniales (Ascomycetes). Pp. 121-139. In: K. D. Hyde [ed.] Biodiversity of Tropical Microfungi. University of Hong Kong Press, Hong Kong.
• Weir, A. (in press). Order: Laboulbeniales. In: A. J. S. Whalley, D. L. Hawksworth, B. M. Spooner and G. Kinsey [eds.] Ascomycetes of Great Britain and Ireland.

• Weir, A. (1991). Records of Fungi in Cleveland. Proceedings of the Cleveland Naturalists Field Club 5: 4-29.
• Weir, A. (1991). Recent records of insects on Greenabella Marsh. Proceedings of the Cleveland Naturalists Field Club 5: 30-31.
• Weir, A. (1992). First recorded Laboulbeniales (Fungi: Ascomycotina) from North-East England. Vasculum: 77: 5-6.
• Legg, A. W. and A. Weir (1992). Fungi: new and interesting records from VC 62 and VC 65 during 1991. Bulletin. Yorkshire Naturalists Union 18: 19-24.
• Legg, A. W. and A. Weir (1993). Fungi: new and interesting records for various vice-counties, 1992. Bulletin. Yorkshire Naturalists Union 20: 12-17.
• Legg, A. W. and A. Weir (1994). Fungi: new and interesting records for various vice-counties, 1993. Bulletin. Yorkshire Naturalists Union 22: 18-23.
• Legg, A. W. and A. Weir (1995). Fungi: new and interesting records for various vice-counties, 1994. Bulletin. Yorkshire Naturalists Union 24: 30-35.
• Weir, A. (1995). Fungal conservation - a contradiction in terms? Vasculum 80: 14-16.
• Weir, A. (in press). Contribution towards a fungus flora of North-eastern England. Parts I -III. Uredinales, Erysiphales, Laboulbeniales. Vasculum Special Supplement 4. Northern Naturalists Union / Sunderland Museum.