Next Meeting

"Vascular Plants of the Americas: A searchable database"
Dr. Carmen Ulloa Ulloa
September 14-16, 2018
Held at Woods Hole, Cape Cod
This will be a joint meeting with the Botanical Club of Cape Cod and the Islands (BCCCI) to celebrate their 20th anniversary.
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Announcements

Day Field Trips are Back!
See the Field Trip page for details.

Congratulations to Kathleen McCauley as our new Managing Editor for Rhodora. Big thanks to Toni Hartgerink for her 20 years in that position. See more on What's New.

NEBC 2017-2018 Program Calendar

Eagle Hill discounts and stipends for NEBC members are back for 2018. See more on What's New.

The Nonvascular Herbarium work session schedule for Spring 2018 is published on What's New.

Lecture Series Videos
Video recordings of some past lectures are available on the Videos of Past Meetings page.

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David S. Conant (1949 - 2018)

The New England Botanical Club is sad to learn of the sudden passing of David S. Conant, who was NEBC President from 1998 to 2000, Vice-President 1996-1998, and a member for 47 years (since 1971). He was an instrumental organizer of a symposium for the centennial of Rhodora held in April 1999 and briefly its Editor-in-Chief in 1996. Dr. Conant retired from Lyndon State College, Vermont, in 2009, as described in this article. A long obituary describes David's life and his joking nature, as illustrated in this picture from the Rhodora symposium. David Conant's remembrances of his professor, Albion Reed Hodgdon, at the University of New Hampshire, also describes how his lifelong interest in ferns began in Puerto Rico.

Bryan Connolly, Dov Sax, Jesse Bellemare

2018 Fernald Awards

Congratulations to Jesse Bellemare, Bryan Connolly, and Dov F. Sax, this year's Fernald Award winners for their article "Climate change, managed relocation, and the risk of intra-continental plant invasions: A theoretical and empirical exploration relative to the flora of New England" published in Rhodora 119(978):73-109. 2017. The paper can be found here. Members should use BioOne portal for free access.