Robbie Hart

Robbie Hart

Robbie Hart is a scientist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, where he directs the William L. Brown Center, a team of researchers dedicated to the study of useful plants, understanding the relationships between humans, plants, and their environment, the conservation of plant species, and the preservation of traditional knowledge for the benefit of future generations. His own research is on high-elevation plant ecology, climate change, and ethnobotany, and particularly the areas in which these three topics overlap. His research takes him to mountainous and other places around the world and includes a particular focus on the Himalayan region, where he helps to coordinate a network of climate change ecologists spanning China, Bhutan and Nepal. He is a National Geographic Explorer and was chosen as one of the inaugural class of the Explorers Club EC50 in 2021. He supervises graduate students at Washington University in St. Louis as an honorary adjunct professor in Biology.