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  • Friday, March 1, 6:45 pm – Floristic and Climate Change on Mount Desert Island, Maine

    Dr. Nancy M. Eyster-Smith, Associate Professor Emerita, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, will address the New England Botanical Club on Friday, March 1 at 6:45 pm in the Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102) of the Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge, on Celebrating Edward Lothrop Rand, NEBC Corresponding Secretary for 25 Years. Additionally, Dr. Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Postdoc, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine will address Floristic and Climate Change on Mount Desert Island, Maine, from the Champlain Society to Acadia National Park’s Centennial. Free and open to the public. For more information visit http://rhodora.org.

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  • Friday, November 2, 6:45 pm – Is Plant Exploration Dead in a Plant-blind Era?

    Dr. Michael Dosmann, Keeper of Living Collections, Arnold Arboretum, will address the New England Botanical Club on Friday, November 2 at 6:45 pm on the topic of Is Plant Exploration Dead in a Plant-blind Era? Meetings at Harvard University are held in Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 (door to right of Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance). Open to the public. More information can be found at http://www.rhodora.org/meetings/upcomingmeetings.html

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  • Friday, February 2, 6:45 pm – Rare Vascular Plants in Massachusetts: Natural Heritage Maps the Mystery

    Dr. Bob Wernerehl, State Botanist, Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, Westboro, Massachusetts, will speak to the New England Botanical Club on Friday, February 2 beginning at 6:45 in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge, on the topic of Rare Vascular Plants in Massachusetts: Natural Heritage Maps the Mystery. Bob protects 300 rare plant species through conservation measures, ecological planning and inventory survey work, and lends support to many other conservation organizations in New England. The meeting is free and open to the public. For more information visit http://rhodora.org

  • 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 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, October 3, 6:45 pm – A Biogeographic Perspective on the Fern Genus Polystichum

    The New England Botanical Club (NEBC), founded in 1895, is a non-profit organization that promotes the study of plants of North America, especially the flora of New England and adjacent areas. The Club publishes the journal Rhodora, holds monthly meetings during the academic year (usually at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts), maintains an herbarium of more than 253,000 sheets, has a small library, and annually grants a graduate student research award and Fernald publication award.

    The New England Botanical Club will hold its October meeting beginning at 6:45 on Friday, October 3 in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, found inside the door to the Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance at 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge.  The speaker will be Dr. David S. Barrington, Professor of Plant Biology, Director of the Pringle Herbarium at University of Vermont, speaking on A Biogreographic Perspective on the Fern Genus Polystichum.  The meeting is open to the public.  For more information you may email neystersmith@bentley.edu.

     

  • 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, January 10, 5:30 pm – Fourteenth Foray into Fantastic Flora and Flavorsome Feasts

    The New England Botanical Club will host a program for members on Friday, January 10 beginning with a potluck dinner at 5:30 with member’s “Show and Tell”.  For more information visit http://www.rhodora.org.  NEBC meetings are held in Haller Lecture Hall, room 102, found inside the door to the right of the Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge.

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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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