Avocations

Randy D. Ralph, Ph.D., MLIS


  • Graphics

    Botanical illustration, calligraphy, cartography, computer graphics.
    See URL: Randy's Icon and Image Bazaar

  • Music

    Voice: second bass, Winston-Salem Symphony Chorale.
    Recorder: soprano, alto, tenor, soft consort Elizabethan.
    See URL: Finale Music Files/

  • Photography

    2500+ color slides of plants of the Eastern United States arranged taxonomically. 400+ color slides showing the ecology of the coasts, the Appalachian Mountains, and the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

  • Herbarium

    800+ mounted specimens from the eastern United States with particular emphasis on the flora of salt marshes, sand dunes, and the New Jersey Pine Barrens, arranged taxonomically.

  • Databases

    The Taxicon database which hierarchically encodes over 11,200 taxa to the family level and contains over 80,000 encoded organisms complete with scientific names, common names and synonymy.