Barry Rice (botanist)

[2] Barry Rice maintains the website Sarracenia.com and has a detailed FAQ on many carnivorous plant topics.

Before Barry Rice became well known for his contribution to carnivorous plants, he was an astronomer.

He was a researcher at Steward Observatory where his project focused on the star orientation of the Milky Way.

His astronomy research focused on a young galactic cluster designated NGC 2264.

Rice authored or co-authored the following publications: The Dusty Environment of the Young Galactic Cluster NGC 2264, A Calibrated System for Low Resolution Spectral Classification, and The Structure and Kinematics of Bipolar Outflows: Observations and Models of the Monoceros R2 Outflow.