Patricia G. Gensel Explained

Patricia G. Gensel
Birth Name:	Patricia Gabbey Gensel
Birth Date:	March 18, 1944
Birth Place:	Buffalo, New York, United States
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	botanist, paleobotanist
Known For:	research on Paleozoic plants
Education:	Hope College

Patricia Gabbey Gensel (born March 18, 1944) is an American botanist and paleobotanist.^{[1] [2]}

Life

Gensel was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended Hope College in Holland, Michigan, earning a B.A. in 1966.^[3] She obtained her Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Connecticut. Until her retirement in 2024, Gensel was on the faculty of the Biology Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Gensel is noted for her research on Paleozoic plants.^[4] She served as president of the Botanical Society of America for 2000–2001.^[5] Gensel is the namesake of the genus, Genselia Knaus, which consists of four species of early Carboniferous plants found in the Pocono and Price Formations in the Appalachian Basin of North America.^[6]

Publications

• Book: Gensel. Patricia G.. Henry N.. Andrews. Plant Life in the Devonian. 1984. Praeger. New York. 978-0030620027.
• Book: Bourque . Pierre-André . Desbiens . Sylvain . Gensel . Patricia G. . Silurian-Devonian biota and paleoenvironments of Gaspé Peninsula and northern New Brunswick . 2005 . North American Paleontological Convention . Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• Book: Gensel. Patricia G.. Edwards. Dianne. Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives. 2000. Columbia University Press. New York. 978-0231111614.
• Gastaldo RA, Gensel PG, Glasspool IJ, Hinds SJ, King OA, McLean D, Park AF, Stimson MR, Stonesifer T. (2024) Enigmatic fossil plants with three-dimensional, arborescent-growth architecture from the earliest Carboniferous of New Brunswick, Canada. Curr Biol. 2024 Feb 26;34(4):781-792.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.011. Epub 2024 Feb 2. PMID: 38309270

Notes and References

1. Web site: HUH - Databases - Botanist Search.
2. Web site: Patricia G. Gensel. April 28, 2011 .
3. Book: Gensel, Patricia Gabbey. Who's Who of American Women, 1983-1984. 1983. Marquis Who's Who. 978-0-8379-0413-9. 284.
4. Web site: Labs - Patricia G. Gensel. 2016-04-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092224/http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/MORPH/MORPH/Labs_-_Patricia_G._Gensel.html. 2015-04-02. dead.
5. Web site: Botany.org (pdf). botany.org.
6. 2474900. The Species of the Early Carboniferous Fossil Plant Genus Genselia. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 156. 1. 61–92. Knaus. Margaret Jane. 1995. 10.1086/297230. 83629753.