Gerrie Nelson

Gerrie Nelson is the author of Lab Notes, a science-centered adventure novel published through CreateSpace in 2012. Diane Rose, a university ethnobotanist specializing in tropical medicinal plants, and her husband Vincent are academics facing professional uncertainty in Pennsylvania. A Christmas yacht gathering in Galveston Bay draws them toward a wealthy Texas research institute, where the promise of new scientific work soon gives way to suspicion. Vincent questions the institute director’s conduct, then disappears after his boat is reported missing. Diane remains in Texas and follows the mystery toward a Colombian cloud forest, bringing scientific ambition, institutional corruption, and a strained marriage into the same plot. ISBN 9781466467484 identifies the May 21, 2012 edition. The fuller title Lab Notes: A Novel distinguishes it from a scientific notebook or memoir. Nelson uses ethnobotany as more than background, making research choices and their consequences central to the book’s adventure structure.