Background
Julian Alfred Steyermark was born in Saint Louis, Missouri as the only child of the businessman Leo L. Steyermark and Mamie I. Steyermark (née Isaacs).
Julian Alfred Steyermark was born in Saint Louis, Missouri as the only child of the businessman Leo L. Steyermark and Mamie I. Steyermark (née Isaacs).
AB, Washington University, 1929. Master of Science, Washington University, 1930. Doctor of Philosophy, Washington University, 1933.
Master of Arts (graduate scholar), Harvard University, 1931.
Rufus J. Lackland research fellow Missouri Botanical Garden, 1932-1933. Research assistant to Doctor Robert E. Woodson, Junior. Member expedition to Panama, 1934-1935.
Honorary research associate Doctor Robert E. Woodson, Junior, 1948-1988. Instructor biology University City (Missouri) Senior High School, 1935-1937. Taxonomist, ecologist United States Forest Service, summers 1936-1937.
Assistant curator herbarium Chicago Natural History Museum, 1937-1947, associate curator, 1948-1949, curator, 1950-1958. Botanist Instituto Botanico, Ministerio de Agricultura and Cria, Caracas, Venezuela, 1959-1988, curator herbarium, 1975-1981, assessor to director, 1982-1984. Curator Missouri Botanical Garden, 1984-1988.
Research associate emeritus Instituto Botanico and Instituto Nacional de Parques, 1985-1988. Leader botanical expedition Guatemala, 1939-1940, 41-42. To Venezuela, 1944-1945, 53.
Delegate to Conservation Council Chicago, 1939-1958. Botanist Cinchona Mission to Ecuador for United States Government, 1943, Venezuela, 1943-1944. Honorary 1st vice president First Latin American Botanical Congress.
Co-leader botanical expedition to Venezuela, 1954-1955. Expeditions in Venezuela, 1959-1988. Visiting curator New York Botanical Garden, 1961-1965, 68-69.
Member Governor's Natural History Advisory Committee for Illinois Beach State Park, 1950. Governor Nature Conservancy, 1953-1956. Trustee Nature Conservancy (Missouri chapter).
Member Commission Preservation Natural Area Venezuela. Member advisory board Audubon Society Venezuela, 1976-1988. Consultant Humid Forests of Venezuela, Sierra Club.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Botanical Society of America, American Society Plant Taxonomists, Ecological Society of America, Friends of Our Native Landscape (honorary), Venezuela Society Natural Science (honorary), Ecuador Institute Natural Sciences (honorary), Barrington Natural History Society (president), Sigma Xi. Clubs: St. Louis Wild Flower (honorary member), Kennicott.
Married Cora Shoop, September 1, 1937.