Keith A. Bradley
Assistant Director/Senior Biologist
bradley@regionalconservation.org

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A native of South Florida , Keith has worked since 1991 on a broad array of biological research and conservation projects and has developed exemplary skills in managing large logistically-complex projects. Prior to IRC, he spent two years working for the Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management, where he prepared floristic inventories of natural areas and conducted research on endangered pine rockland plants, and two years as a research assistant at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (FTBG), where his duties included monitoring of pine rockland vegetation and preparing status surveys of endangered species. In 1995, he joined IRC as a field biologist assisting with the Floristic Inventory of South Florida, the results of which were published as the book Rare Plants of South Florida : Their History, Conservation, and Restoration (Gann, Bradley & Woodmansee 2002). Since that time, Keith has managed several large IRC projects for federal and state agencies including the floristic inventories of Big Cypress National Preserve and Biscayne National Park , the aerial monitoring of exotic plants in southern Florida , the preparation of status surveys of candidate species for federal listing under the Endangered Species Act, and the demographic monitoring of endangered species. He is widely considered an expert on the flora of southern Florida and is often acknowledged as such in publications including the Flora of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen 2000). His responsibilities at IRC include the management of the Floristic Inventory of South Florida Database and the development of IRC’s GIS resources. He has deposited over 2000 herbarium specimens at FTBG, has published numerous technical reports and articles, and has made regular presentations to the general public and technical audiences. He is past president of the Dade County chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society and served for two years on the board of the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council.