Cairn C. Krafft

USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Beltsville Lab, BARC-East 308
10300 Baltimore Avenue
Beltsville, MD 20705

Telephone: 301-497-5546

Fax: 301-497-5624

Email: ckrafft@usgs.gov 

Botanist

Primary Responsibilities: 

Collection, analysis, and presentation of vegetation data. 

Education/Training: 

MS, Botany and Plant Physiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ;  1988 

BA, Biology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA;  1980

Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: Star Award, “Man and Nature Working Together to Create an Urban Wetland,”  Exhibit Production, 2001 

Rutgers University: Graduate Fellowship, 1985-87 

Wellesley College: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Durant Scholar, Lucy Branch Allen Prize in Biological Sciences, 1980 

Active Projects: 

Vegetation monitoring at the reconstructed Anacostia River Fringe and Heritage Island Wetlands.

Long-term vegetation monitoring at Rock Creek Park.

Publications/Products: 

Krafft, C. and S. Handel, 1991, “The Role of Carnivory in the Growth and Reproduction of Drosera filiformis and D.rotundifolia,” Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. 118, No. 1, pp. 12-19. 

Krafft, C., 1989, “ Construction of a 32-acre Palustrine Wetland in Ocean County, New Jersey,” Paper and Presentation for Eastern Conference on Wetland Issues in Land Use and Real Estate, Resource Education Institute, Concord, Massachusetts. 

Williams, C., 1988, “Capture and Use of Prey by Drosera filiformis, Drosera intermedia, and Drosera rotundifolia,” Master’s Thesis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 

Williams, C. 1980, “Food Preferences of the Eastern Gray Squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, in Eastern Massachusetts,” Undergraduate Thesis, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.