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.
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)Â and an MS in Forest Ecology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1990).
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.
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.
The Special Publication Committee of the New England Botanical Club is pleased to announce the publication of Vascular Flora of Worcester County, Massachusetts by Robert I. Bertin and Thomas J. Rawinski. The 290-page book includes sections on the physical setting, geology, climate, soils, vegetation patterns, human impact, and a history of botanical collection in the county. The core of the book is an annotated list of the 2,043 species found in the county. Species information includes abundance, status (native or alien), habitat, distribution within the county, conservation status, and flowering and fruiting phenology. Distribution maps are included for 700 species, illustrating current and former distributions at the town level.
To purchase, send a check for $23.00 check payable to the New England Botanical Club to:
Karen Searcy, Chair, NEBC Special Publications Committee
Biology Department
611 North Pleasant St.
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
For information on joining the New England Botanical Club, visit www.rhodora.org.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
