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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, March 1, 6:45 pm – The Nymph’s Ugly Cousin: Studies in Nuphar

    The New England Botanical Club welcomes Dr. Donald J. Padgett, Department of Biological Sciences, Bridgewater State College, to its March 1 meeting to discuss The Nymph’s Ugly Cousin: Studies in Nuphar.  The meeting, which is open to the public, will begin at 6:45 in Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge.  For information, visit www.rhodora.org.

  • Friday, December 7 – Where Are We in Invasive Plant Management?

    On Friday, December 7, the New England Botanical Club will host Karen Lombard, Director of Stewardship and Restoration, The Nature Conservancy, Massachusetts, who will speak on Where Are We in Invasive Plant Management?: Lessons from Two Long-Term Invasive Plant Management Projects.  The meeting is open to the public, and will be held in the Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102) found inside the door to the right of the Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance at 24 Oxford Street.  For confirmation on the time, please email the Corresponding Secretary at neystersmith@bentley.edu.

  • Friday, November 2, 6:00 pm – A Passion for Plants: How to Get Students Excited About Botany

    Dr. Kristina Jones, Director of the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Wellesley College will address the New England Botanical Club on Friday, November 2, beginning at 6 pm at the University Museum’s Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, at 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge.  The public is invited.  Dr. Jones’  topic is A Passion for Plants: How to Get Students Excited About Botany.  For more information, visit www.rhodora.org.

  • Friday, October 5, 6:00 pm – Patterns of Exotic Species Colonization in a Forested Landscape

    The New England Botanical Club will host Dr. Chad Jones, Assistant Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Connecticut College, for a meeting to be held Friday, October 5 in the Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102), at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge.  The meeting is open to the public.  Dr. Jones will speak on Patterns of Exotic Species Colonization in a Forested Landscape. Chad Jones is interested in a wide range of topics in plant ecology. His research has involved two major themes: plant succession and invasive species.

    Professor Jones has studied plant colonization following a broad array of disturbances ranging from volcanic eruptions and the retreat of glaciers to gopher mounds in mountain meadows. Among other topics, he has examined spatial patterns of dispersal, factors that limit plant colonization and effects of disturbances on plant diversity.

    A second area of research involves investigating patterns of spread of invasive species. He uses statistical models and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to predict the potential distributions of invasive species at several scales.

    For more information, visit www.rhodora.org.

  • Friday, June 1, 6:45 pm – The Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology of Carex: A Personal Perspective

    The New England Botanical Club will hold its June meeting on Friday, June 1 in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, with a talk by Dr. Lisa Standley, Chief Environmental Scientist, VHB, Inc., of Watertown, and New England Botanical Club Curator of Vascular Plants.  She will speak on The Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology of Carex: A Personal Perspective.  The talk is open to the public.  For more information visit www.rhodora.org.  Dr. Standley is the author of the New Field Guide to the Carex of New England.

     

     

  • Friday, February 4, 5:30 pm – Hengduan Mountains, China: Characteristics and Biodiversity

    Dr. David Bouford of the Harvard University Herbaria will speak to the New England Botanical Club on Friday, February 4, beginning at 5:30 pm in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, on the topic Hengduan Mountains, China: Characteristics and Biodiversity. Open to the public. For maps and parking information, log on to www.rhodora.org.  Below is a Hengudan Mountains meconopsis.