Brodo's list of publications includes 75 research papers, 8 popular articles, 22 reviews and 6 editorials and obituaries. In 1993, Brodie was awarded the Mary E. Elliot Service Award for his meritorious service to the
Canadian Botanical Association[3] — and in 2003, for lifetime achievement, the association's George Lawson Medal.[4] One of Irwin Brodo's great achievements was the publication in 2001 of the 795 page book, "Lichens of North America" with high-quality photographs of lichens taken by
Sylvia Sharnoff and
Stephen Sharnoff. It won the 2002
National Outdoor Book Award (Nature Guidebook).[5] In 2016, the trio, with additional collaborator Susan Laurie-Bourque, produced Keys to Lichens of North America: Revised and Expanded.[6] In 2013, Brodo was presented with an
honorary doctorate from Carleton University, "in recognition of his distinguished career in lichenology and scientific leadership in the international biosystematics community".[2]
^Brodo, Irwin M; Laurie-Bourque, Susan; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2016). Keys to Lichens of North America: Revised and Expanded. Yale University Press. p. 424.
ISBN978-0300195736.
^Nash, T. H. III; Ryan, B. D.; Diederich, P.; Gries, C.; Bungartz, F. (2004). Lichen flora of the greater Sonoran Desert region. Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited. p. 290.
ISBN978-0-9716759-1-9.