Linda E. Graham is currently a Professor in the Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also serves
a faculty role in the Limnology and Marine Sciences Graduate Program
and the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, particularly
the Water Resources Management graduate program. At the UW-Madison, she has taught a course on algae for many years, and is lead author
of a widely used textbook, Algae, which is published by Pearson. Dr. Graham is co-author of two other textbooks in which algae are
prominently described, Plant Biology 2e (Pearson) and Biology 3e (McGraw-Hill). In 2013-14 Dr. Graham will be the President of the
Phycological Society of America, the algae-related scholarly organization that sponsors this webzine, which is designed to serve the
general public.