Degrees:
Ph.D., Duke Univ.
B.A., Gettysburg College
Professor Schneider's goal in teaching was to help students understand the natural world by logically dissecting it, then finding out how it all fit back together. If students could develop ways of thinking that challenged their established assumptions, then he has succeeded. Schneider provided his classes the facts of a subject, but he did not expect them to memorize these webs of information; rather, he wanted the students to interpret the significance of these facts in a greater context. He allowed them to make mistakes in their “logical” thinking, then used the mistakes as a platform for constructive discussion. Using such tools, he believed students truly learned the material in a useful manner, one which would carry forth well after any class they had taken with him.
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Botany
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Aquatic biology
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Biogeography
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Systematics/biogeography
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Phylogenetics of marine red, green and brown algae
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Marine flora of Bermuda
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Recent Publications:
- Wynne, M.J. & C.W.Schneider (2022). Fifth addendum to the synoptic review of red algal genera. Botanica Marina 65: https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2021-0093
- Wynne, M.J. & C.W.Schneider (2022). A correction of the type of Dictyota jamaicensis W.R.Taylor (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae, Ochrophyta). Notulae Algarum 122: 1-3.
- Popolizio, T.R., C.W. Schneider, W.M. Jongbloed, G.W. Saunders & C.E. Lane (2022). Molecular analysis resolves the taxonomy of the Laurencia complex (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales) in Bermuda and uncovers novel species of Chondrophycus and Laurenciella. Cryptogamie, Algologie 43(1): 1-30.
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Schneider, C.W., M.M. Cassidy & G.W. Saunders (2021) . The pseudodichotomous Dasya sylviae sp. nov. (Delesseriaceae, Ceramiales) from 60–90 m mesophotic reefs off Bermuda. European Journal of Taxonomy 751: 24-37.
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Schneider, C.W., M.J. Wynne & G.W. Saunders (2021). On the nomenclatural reinstatementand lectotypification of Spyridia americana Durant (1850). Botanica Marina 64:221-225.
- Wynne, M.J. & C.W. Schneider (2021). Proposal of Medeiothamnion thouarsii (Montagne) comb. nov. (Wrangeliaceae, Rhodophyta). Notulae Algarum 176: 1-5.
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Schneider, C.W., C.E. Lane, D.C. McDevit & G.V. Filloramo (2020). Proposal of the new genus Gazzaea (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) to accommodate Botryocladia flookii C.W.Schneider & C.E.Lane. Notulae Algarum 153: 1-4.
- Peterson, E.S., C.W. Schneider & G.W. Saunders (2020). Eucheumatopsis sanibelensis sp. nov. from the Gulf coast of Florida. Phytotaxa 440(3): 215-224.
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Schneider, C.W., E.S. Peterson & G.W. Saunders (2020). Two new species of Solieriaceae (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales) from the euphotic and mesophotic zones off Bermuda, Meristotheca odontoloma and Tepoztequiella muriamans. Phycologia 59: 177-185.
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Honors:
- Award of Excellence, Phycological Society of America, 2020
- Trustee Award for Faculty Excellence, 2016
- The Frank Shipley Collins Award, Northeast Algal Society, 2003
- Distinguished Alumnus Award, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2000
- Named the Charles A. Dana Professor of Biology, 1998
- Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Teaching Excellence, 1996
- Charles A. Dana Research Professorship Prize, 1995
- The Gerald W. Prescott Award, Phycological Society of America, for 1991 book, Seaweeds of the Southeastern United States, Duke University Press, 1993
Recent grant:
- DEB research grant, NSF Biotic Surveys & Inventories Program, The Bermuda Seaweed Project, 2011-2014, $90,000.
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