Barry Rice is a scientist with many interests. He earned his PhD in astronomy from the University of Arizona, Tucson; by culture and philosophy he is a generalist scientist and educator. From 1997-2009 he worked as an invasive species specialist for The Nature Conservancy's ![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
Global Invasive Species Team.
As of August 2009, Barry Rice works at Sierra College, in Rocklin, as Assistant Professor of Astronomy.
Rice is involved in many aspects of carnivorous plants—conserving them, studying them, and growing them. His research focus is on the distribution of Lentibulariaceae (especially Utricularia) in the western USA. Rice is science editor for Carnivorous Plant Newsletter, a peer-reviewed journal published by The International Carnivorous Plant Society. He was Managing Editor from 1997-2008, but decided to step down to have more time for his own research and writings. He was also Director of Conservation for the society from 1999 (when he created the position) until 2008.
He recently finished a young adult's book for Scholastic, which is an introduction to "extreme botany", i.e., weird plants such as carnivores, parasites, and myco-heterotrophs.
Rice is an active plant photographer, and his first book (Growing Carnivorous Plants) was published by Timber Press in 2006. His large web site, which includes many of his writings and a gallery of his plant photography, can be seen at http://www.sarracenia.com. He can often be found working at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, helping to manage the carnivorous plant collections maintained there, or at the UCDavis Center for Plant Diversity (i.e. the herbarium) where he has an appointment as an associate scientist.
Rice is a practicing martial artist, with a second degree black belt in kajukembo earned under Manoi Richard Baciarini and Manoi Jim Trapani at Baciarini's Martial Arts, Davis. He also holds a black sash in Senkotiros, earned under Manoi Jim Trapani. His martial arts title is "Sifu Barry". He and his wife (Elizabeth Salvia, with the same ranking) are senior instructors at the school.
Rice and his wife moved to Woodland in 2008, but is active in both Woodland and Davis.
