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Tag: Geological Museum

  • Friday, March 3, 6:45 pm – Creating and Leveraging a Virtual Herbarium of New England for Biodiversity Science

    The New England Botanical Club will hold its March meeting on Friday, March 3, beginning at 6:45 in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge.  The featured speaker will be Dr. Charles Davis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Vascular Plants, Harvard University.  His talk is entitled Creating and Leveraging a Virtual Herbarium of New England for Biodiversity Science.  The meeting is free and open to the public. For more information visit www.rhodora.org. Picture courtesy of Harvard Gazette.

  • Friday, February 3, 6:45 pm – Invasive Plant Risks and Advantages with Climate and Land Use Change

    The New England Botanical Club will hold its February meeting on February 3 with Dr. Jenica Allen, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, discussing Invasive Plant Risks and Advantages with Climate and Land Use Chang.  Meeting will begin at 6:45 at Harvard University, in Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138  (door to right of Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance).  Free and open to the public.  For more information visit www.rhodora.org.

  • Friday, April 1, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Aquatic and Terrestrial Decomposition of the Invasive Norway Maple

    The New England Botanical Club will hold its April 1st meeting at 6:45 in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge. The speaker will be Dr. Anna Aguilera, Assistant Professor of Biology, Simmons College in Boston, who will speak on Aquatic and Terrestrial Decomposition of the Invasive Norway Maple. The meeting is open to the public. For more information visit www.rhodora.org.

  • Friday, April 10, 6:45 pm – Mutants in Our Midst: Darwin, Horticulture, and Evolution

    The New England Botanical Club is pleased to announce that NEBC Distinguished Speaker Dr. Ned Friedman, Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, will speak on Friday, April 10, beginning at 6:45 pm in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge, on the topic Mutants in Our Midst: Darwin, Horticulture, and Evolution.  This lecture was sold out when presented by Dr. Friedman as part of the Arnold Arboretum Director’s Lecture Series, and this presentation is free and open to the public.  For more information visit www.rhodora.org.

  • Friday, April 4, 6:45 pm – Learned Societies: Past, Present, and Future

    Dr. Pamela Diggle, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, and the 2015 Future President of the Botanical Society of America, will speak to the New England Botanical Club on Friday, April 4, in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, on the topic of Learned Societies: Past, Present, and Future.  The meeting is free and open to the public.  For questions, contact neystersmith@bentley.edu.

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  • Friday, December 6, 6:45 pm – Conifer Swamps of Central and Western Massachusetts

    Glenn Motzkin, botanist/ecologist, will address the New England Botanical Club on Friday, December 6, beginning at 6:45 at Harvard University, in the Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge.  The door is to the right of the Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance.

    Glenn Motzkin is a plant ecologist interested in patterns of species distribution, vegetation dynamics, disturbance history, and the application of historical ecology to conservation in New England. Glenn has studied a wide range of natural communities, with particular interests in the history and dynamics of uncommon communities that support rare species and are priorities for conservation. Glenn is currently an independent ecological consultant, having previously worked as Plant Ecologist at Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA. Glenn serves as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program.

    He received his BA in American Civilization, Brown University (1982)  and an MS in Forest Ecology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1990).

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  • Friday, November 1, 6:45 pm – Ginkgo: An Evolutionary and Cultural Biography

    Dr. Peter Crane, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Professor of Botany, Yale University, will speak on Friday, November 1 on Ginkgo: An Evolutionary and Cultural Biography, at the meeting of the New England Botanical Club in the Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge.

    Dean Crane’s work focuses on the diversity of plant life: its origin and fossil history, current status, and conservation and use. From 1992 to 1999 he was director of the Field Museum in Chicago with overall responsibility for the museum’s scientific programs. During this time he established the Office of Environmental and Conservation Programs and the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change, which today make up the Division of Environment, Culture, and Conservation (ECCo). From 1999 to 2006 he was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of the largest and most influential botanical gardens in the world. His tenure at Kew saw strengthening and expansion of the gardens’ scientific, conservation, and public programs. Dean Crane was elected to the Royal Society (the U.K. academy of sciences) in 1998. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the German Academy Leopoldina. He was knighted in the U.K. for services to horticulture and conservation in 2004. Dean Crane currently serves on the Board of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas, and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.

    For information visit www.rhodora.org.

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  • Friday, October 4, 6:45 pm – Deer, Forests, and People: Understanding and Managing Socioecological Systems

    The New England Botanical Club will present Tom Rawinski, Botanist, USDA Forest Service, Durham, New Hampshire, on Friday, October 4.  Tom will speak on Deer, Forests, and People: Understanding and Managing Socioecological Systems, beginning at 6:45 pm at Harvard University, Cambridge, in the Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge (door to the right of the Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance.)  For information on the New England botanical Club, visit www.rhodora.org. Picture below from www.animalliberationfront.com.

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  • Friday, February 1, 6:45 pm – The Amazing Antioxidant, Apogamous, and Amorous Genus Aronia

    Bryan A. Connolly, State Botanist, Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, will speak to the New England Botanical Club on Friday, February 1, beginning at 6:45 pm, on The Amazing Antioxidant, Apogamous, and Amorous Genus Aronia.  The meeting will be held in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, of the Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge.  The meeting is open to the public.  For more information, visit www.rhodora.org. Image from 5400squarefeet.blogspot.com.