Harvey Alfred Miller (October 19, 1928, Sturgis, Michigan – January 7, 2020, Palm Bay, Florida) was an American botanist, specializing in Pacific Islands bryophytes.
Miller was a licensed private plane pilot and had his first flying lessons when he was 14 years old.
[1] His botanical travels have taken him to all fifty states including Alaska, the Aleutians and Hawaii, plus Canada, England, Wales, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Soviet Union, Micronesia, Philippines, Japan, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Costa Rica and Guadalupe Island Mexico.
[1]He collected the first carbon samples that helped establish the carbon-14 dates for human migration across the Bering Straits to North America during the 1949-50 University of Michigan Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
He was environmental consultant for Freeport-McMoRan Indonesia in New Guinea’s Puncak Jaya Mountains ...[1]Miller was a 1958 Guggenheim Fellow,[3] a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[4] and served as president of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society (1964–1965) and president of the Florida Academy of Sciences (1981).