Samuel Bridgewater

Samuel Bridgewater is an Associate Researcher with the Natural History Museum, London, and the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. He was formerly Research Station Manager at Las Cuevas in Belize. He is a field botanist, ecologist, and ethnobotanist with more than twenty years’ experience working in Brazil, Peru, and Belize. He has a particular interest in the links between plant use and culture, and coauthored Flora Celtica, a book celebrating the history and contemporary use of plants in...See more

Samuel Bridgewater is an Associate Researcher with the Natural History Museum, London, and the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. He was formerly Research Station Manager at Las Cuevas in Belize. He is a field botanist, ecologist, and ethnobotanist with more than twenty years’ experience working in Brazil, Peru, and Belize. He has a particular interest in the links between plant use and culture, and coauthored Flora Celtica, a book celebrating the history and contemporary use of plants in Scotland. He currently divides his time between Wester Ross, Scotland, where he coordinates a landscape partnership initiative, and Belize, where he continues to conduct ecological research. See less