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.
Charley Eiseman and Noah Charney, authors of Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates, will conduct a special session for the New England Botanical Club on Friday, May 6, beginning at 5:30 pm at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Massachusetts, on the topic Invertebrates on Plants: Identifying Galls, Mines, Leaf-ties, and Other Signs in a New Field Guide. For more information, log on to www.rhodora.org.
The Harvard Botanical Club is pleased to welcome its 2011 Distinguished Speaker, Dr. Donald H. Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany, Curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium, and Dean of Harvard Summer School. on Monday, April 4, in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge. Dr. Pfister will speak on William G. Farlow and His Influences on Botany, Academics, and Amateurs. For complete information, maps and parking directions, log on to www.rhodora.org.
Bill Nichols, Senior Ecologist/Botanist of the New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau will address the New England Botanical Club on Friday, March 4, beginning at 5:30 pm in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge. He will speak on the topic The Land Use History, Flora, and Natural Communities of the Isles of Shoals (Rye, New Hampshire and Kittery, Maine.) The meeting is free and open to the public. For maps and parking directions, log on to www.rhodora.org.
Dr. Robert Bertin, Professor and Department Chair, Biology Department, College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, will address the May 7 meeting of the New England Botanical Club at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Massachusetts, beginning at 6:30 pm. His lecture is entitled Seventy Years of Change in the Flora of One New England County. For specific directions log on to www.newfs.org.
The sponsor, The New England Botanical Club, which originated 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, maintains an herbarium of more than 253,000 sheets, has a small library, and annually grants a graduate student research award. An office for the Club is maintained at the Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, and you may reach the office at 617-308-3656 for membership information, or log on to www.rhodora.org. Regular member dues are $50 annually, and a family rate, including a copy of Rhodora, is $60. Student membership costs $25.
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Dr. Walter H. Lewis, Emeritus and University Research Ethnobotanist, Washington University in St. Louis and Missouri Botanical Garden, and the 2010 New England Botanical Club Distinguished Speaker, will give a talk on the Complexities of American Rose Species: Their Taxonomy to DNA on Friday, April 2, in the Lecture Hall (Room 102) of the Fairchild Biochemistry Building at 7 Divinity Avenue in Cambridge. The Fairchild Biochemistry Building is part of the main campus near Harvard Square and is between Busch Hall and the Peabody Museum. For specific directions log on to www.rhodora.org/Meetings.html.
The sponsor, The New England Botanical Club, which originated 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, maintains an herbarium of more than 253,000 sheets, has a small library, and annually grants a graduate student research award. An office for the Club is maintained at the Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, and you may reach the office at 617-308-3656 for membership information, or log on to www.rhodora.org. Regular member dues are $50 annually, and a family rate, including a copy of Rhodora, is $60. Student membership costs $25.
Dr. Anne Pringle, Assistant Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, will speak on Friday, March 5 at the New England Botanical Club’s monthly meeting in the Lecture Hall, Room 102, of the Fairchild Biochemistry Building, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, beginning at 6:30 pm. Her topic is “Summoning the Wind & Invading New Territories: The Strategies of Stationary Organisms.” The Fairchild Biochemistry Building is part of the main campus near Harvard Square and is between Busch Hall and the Peabody Museum. For specific directions log on to www.rhodora.org/Meetings.html. The New England Botanical Club, which originated 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, maintains an herbarium of more than 253,000 sheets, has a small library, and annually grants a graduate student research award. An office for the Club is maintained at the Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, and you may reach the office at 617-308-3656 for membership information, or log on to www.rhodora.org. Regular member dues are $50 annually, and a family rate, including a copy of Rhodora, is $60. Student membership costs $25.
