Kristen Haynes

Focus

• Field station operations
• Public programming, outreach, and education
• Trail and land management
• Equipment & collections management
• Canal Forest Restoration Project

Prior Field Station Experience

• Business Manager, Cranberry Lake Biological Station, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) (2015–2018)
• Research Fellow, Cranberry Lake Biological Station, ESF (2017)
• Graduate Assistant (Teaching & Research), Adirondack Ecological Center, ESF Newcomb Campus (2016)

Research

• Field biology
• Ecology
• Conservation
• Genetics
• Sustainability
• Botany
• Herbaria

Publications

• Haynes, K.R. & Mohamed, K.I. (2026). Basement biodiversity to botanical resource: Impacts and lessons learned from digitizing a small herbarium. The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 153(4), 347–359. Journal article
• Seago, J.L., Mohamed, K.I., & Haynes, K.R. (2025). Filling in the gaps: Evidence of leaf endodermis and vein sheath in gymnosperms. Annals of Botany, 136(7), 1497–1514. Journal article
• Haynes, K.R., Friedman, J., Stella, J.C., & Leopold, D.J. (2021). Assessing climate change tolerance and the niche breadth‑range size hypothesis in rare and widespread alpine plants. Oecologia, 196, 1233–1245. Journal article
• Berend, K., Haynes, K., & MacKenzie, C. M. (2019). Common garden experiments as a dynamic tool for ecological studies of alpine plants and communities in northeastern North America. Rhodora, 121(987), 174–212. Journal article

Education

• PhD, Ecology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 2019
• BS, Natural Resources, Cornell University
• Certificate in University Teaching, Syracuse University
• Certified Interpretive Guide, National Association for Interpretation