Videos of Past Meetings

This page provides videos and/or summaries of meetings. For a list of upcoming meetings, click here. Summaries of NEBS lectures are also published quarterly in Rhodora.

Most older videos are temporarily offline.

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Current year meetings

March 4, 2023 - Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Chandra Jack, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Clark University, Worcester, MA
• "The Functional Rhizosphere: How Microbes and Soil Health Influence Plant Fitness and Functional Traits."
• Meeting via Zoom.

February 4, 2023 - Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Mt Cuba Trillium Report

• Amy Highland, Director of Collections & Conservation Lead, Mt. Cuba Center, Hockessin, DE
• "The Trillium of Mt. Cuba Center"
• VIA ZOOM ONLY

January 14, 2023 Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBS Membership
• "23rd Botany Bash is Back: Bevy of Buffet, Booty, and Biological Bragging"
• Member's potluck dinner, raffle, and, "show & tell"
• IN PERSON ONLY
• Start time: 5:30 pm
• Held at the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife's Cronin Building, 1 Rabbit Hill Road, Westborough, MA (room 108 – Southeast Conference Room)

December 3, 2022  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Heather McCargo, Founder and Former Executive Director, The Wild Seed Project, North Yarmouth, ME
• "Wild Seed Project: Grassroots Seed Propagation of New England Native Plants"
• Meeting held 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)

November 5, 2022  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. José Eduardo Meireles, Assistant Professor of Plant Evolution and Systematics, School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME
• "Plant Diversity Shows its True Colors"
• Meeting held 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)

October 1, 2022  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Joanne Glode, Southern New Hampshire Stewardship Ecologist, The Nature Conservancy, New Hampshire.
• "Climate Adaptation Strategies for New Hampshire's Salt Marsh Habitats"
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm ET

September 23, 2022  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Liz Thompson, conservation scientist, Vermont Land Trust
  Eric Sorenson, ecologist, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department's Natural Heritage Inventory
  Bob Zaino, ecologist, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department
  
• "Wetland, Woodland, Wildland: A Tour of Vermont's Natural Communities and a Call to Action"
• Held at Room 110, Jeffords Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT @ 7pm ET
• Schedule of Events

May 7, 2022  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• William Cullina, F. Otto Haas Executive Director of the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
• "Public Gardens in Today's World"
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

April 2, 2022  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Peter Wilf, Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
• "Origins and Paleoconservation of Southeast Asian Rainforests"
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

March 5, 2022  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Alan S. Weakley, Director University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Herbarium, Chapel Hill, NC
• "Taxonomy, Floras, and Plant Identification Tools for Biodiversity Conservation in the 2020s"
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

February 5, 2022  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Valerie Pence, Director of Plant Research, Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife, Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Cincinnati, OH
• "Saving All Plants: Technologies to Extend ex situ Conservation to All Plant Species"
• Link to Biological Conservation open access articles on Gap analysis of exceptional species and Defining exceptional species
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

January 8, 2022  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• "22nd Winter Warmth by Watching from Wherever the Work of Worthy Winners"
• Invited presentations by 2020 winners of our awards – Les Mehrhoff Botanical Research Award, Junior Faculty Award, Graduate Student Research Award
  • Dr. Sarah T. Bois, Linda Loring Nature Foundation, MA
  • "Naturalized Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius) on Nantucket Island: A Case for Invasive Listing in Massachusetts"
    
    
  • Dr. Jay Wason III, University of Maine, ME
  • "Drought Effects on Tree Physiology, Growth, and Survival"
    
    
  • Jacob Suissa, Harvard University PhD student
  • "Untangling the Elaborate Evolution of the Fern Vascular System"
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

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Previous meetings

December 4, 2021  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Jesse Bellemare, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA
• "Horticultural Escape and Naturalization of Umbrella Magnolia (Magnolia tripetala) in the Northeastern U.S.: Implications of Climate Change for Plant Conservation"

November 6, 2021  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Danielle Ignace, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Natural Sciences, Dept. of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• "Transitioning Ecosystems: Foundation Species Loss Due to Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Invasion Affects Ecosystem Function"

October 2, 2021  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Christopher Neill, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA
• "Plant Responses and Ecosystem Resilience Following Restoration of Former Cranberry Bogs"

May 1, 2021 Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Eric T. Doucette, Dept of Biology, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA
• "A New Approach in Shadbush Species Delimitation"
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

April 3, 2021  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• NEBC Distinguished Speaker
• Dr. Robert Bertin, Distinguished Professor of Science Emeritus, Biology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
• "Regional Floras and the Assessment of Floristic Change"
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

March 6, 2021  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Wesley Knapp, North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, Asheville, NC
• "Tales from the Crypt: The Extinct Plants of North America with a Focus on New England Extinction Events"
• Link to Conservation Biology open-access paper
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

February 6, 2021  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Mason Heberling, Assistant Curator of Botany, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
• "Rethinking the Herbarium Specimen"
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

January 9, 2021  Meeting Notice (pdf file) ) - Lecture Video

• "21st Virtual Visits and Visions (but no Vittles)" program
• NEBC members living outside New England (invited)
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

December 5, 2020  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Anurag Agrawal, James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• "Of Monarchs and Milkweed: Coevolution, Chemical Ecology, & Conservation"
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

November 7, 2020  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Banu Subramaniam, Professor and Chair of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, UMass-Amherst, Amherst, MA
• "Decolonizing Botany"
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

October 3, 2020  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Jacquelyn L. Gill, Associate Professor of Paleoecology & Plant Ecology, School of Biology and Ecology, and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME
• "The Once and Future Forests: What 21,000 Years of Prehistory Tells Us to Expect in a Warming World"
• Held via Zoom @ 7pm

August 7-10, 2020 Cancelled

• Field Trip to New Jersey Pine Barrens lead by Uli Lorimer and Matt Charpentier
• Limited to 15 attendees
• Details of this trip to explore the floristic diversity of the New Jersey Pine Barrens are in the works
• Time frame will be announced when available

May 29-31, 2020  Cancelled

• Spring Away Meeting
• Held at Yale-Myers Forest, Eastford, CT

May 2, 2020  Cancelled - Rescheduled for May 2021

• Dr. Eric Doucette, Dept of Biology, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA
• "A New Approach in Amelanchier"
• Held at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA

April 4, 2020  Cancelled - Rescheduled for October 2020

• NEBC Distinguished Speaker
• Dr. Jacquelyn L. Gill, Associate Professor of Paleoecology & Plant Ecology, School of Biology and Ecology, and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME
• "The Once and Future Forests: What 21,000 Years of Prehistory Tells Us to Expect in a Warming World"

March 7, 2020  Cancelled - Rescheduled for October 2021 

• Dr. Christopher Neill, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA
• "Plant Responses and Ecosystem Resilience Following Restoration of Former Cranberry Bogs"

February 1, 2020  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Neil Pederson, Senior Ecologist, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
• "Trees Don't Read Textbooks and Other Woody Stories of Persistence, Individuality, and Resilience"

January 11, 2020  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• "20th Assembly of Associates' Appetizing Alimentary Acquisitions and Amazing Apparitions of Angiosperms"
• Member's "Show and Tell" followed by potluck dinner and raffle
• Held at the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife's Cronin Building, 1 Rabbit Hill Road, Westborough, MA (room 108 – Southeast Conference Room)

December 7, 2019  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Jaclyn Hatala Matthes, Dept Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
• "Forecasting the Ecosystem Impacts of Invasive Insects in Northeastern U.S. Forests"

November 2, 2019  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Melody Keena, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Hamden, CT.
• "Gypsy Moths From Different Origins Pose Different Risks to North American Forests"

October 5, 2019  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Postdoc, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME.
• "A Paleoecological Perspective on Subalpine and Alpine Vegetation in Maine"
• Includes FREE admission to MCZ/Glass Flowers for NEBC member and one guest.

September 14, 2019  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Program Schedule (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Lynn S. Adler, Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
• "Floral Traits Mediating Pathogen Dynamics in Pollinators"
• Held at Smith College, Northampton, MA, 4:00 pm Saturday, September 14.
• Also, other Saturday activities require registration by Sept. 12. Registration link.
• Fungal walk with Dianna Smith (12:00 noon- 3:00 pm at Smith College MacLeish Field Station.)
• Field Trip to Montague Plains Wildlife Management Area with Pete Grima (10:00am to 2:00pm)

June 14-16, 2019  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

Saveable/printable PDF with full schedule and registration links.

• 2019 Away Meeting with presentation Saturday, June 15, 6:45 pm
• Bob Popp, VT Fish & Wildlife Dept. Botanist, Barre, VT
• "Vermont's Contribution to New England's Rare Flora"
• Held at Vermont Grange Center, Brookfield, VT
• Several workshops and field trips are planned for the weekend
• Registration fee will cover accommodations at the center, meals, and activities.
• Reduced student rates and scholarships are available.
• Questions? Please contact Matthew Charpentier at mpcharpentier93@gmail.com

May 3, 2019  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Uli Lorimer, Director of Horticulture, Native Plant Trust (formerly New England Wild Flower Society), Framingham, MA
• "The New Jersey Pine Barrens at a Glance"
• Held at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA

April 5, 2019  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBC Distinguished Speaker
• Dr. Carmen Ulloa Ulloa, Curator, Science & Conservation, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO
• "In the Footsteps of Humboldt: The Making of the Map of the Plants of the Americas"

March 1, 2019  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Nancy Eyster-Smith Lecture Video - Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie Lecture Video - Resources on E L Rand, Champlain Society, Acadia National Park - Rand's Me Judice poem

• Dr. Nancy M. Eyster-Smith, Associate Professor Emerita, Bentley University, Waltham, MA
• "Celebrating Edward Lothrop Rand, NEBC Corresponding Secretary for 25 years"
• Dr. Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Postdoc, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME
• "Floristic and Climate Change on Mount Desert Island, Maine, from the Champlain Society to Acadia National Park's Centennial"

February 1, 2019  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Kristina Stinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA
• "The Ecology and Impacts of Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)"

January 11, 2019  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - No Video

• NEBC Membership
• "Nineteenth Narrative and Notes on Nature with Nutritious Nibbles"
• Potluck dinner (5:30 PM), raffle, and member's "Show and Tell"
• Held at the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Cronin building, 1 Rabbit Hill Road, Westborough, MA (Room 108 – Southeast Conference Room)

December 7, 2018  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Diana Jolles, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences & Director, Plymouth State University Herbarium, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
• "Genetic Diversity and Phyloecology of the Western North American Pyrola picta Species Complex (Ericaceae)"

November 2, 2018  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Michael Dosmann, Keeper of Living Collections, Arnold Arboretum, Boston, MA
• "Is Plant Exploration Dead in a Plant-blind Era?"

October 13, 2018- Away Meeting   Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Aaron Ellison, Senior Research Fellow in Ecology at Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
• "Things Fall Apart: Land-Use History, Non-Native Insects, Climatic Change, and the Decline of a Forest Foundation Species"
• Held at Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA

  The meeting will include options for a field trip or workshop during the day (10 AM – 4 PM), a tour of the Hemlock Hospice installation in the late afternoon (4 – 5:30 PM), and a research presentation by Dr. Aaron Ellison on environmental change and the loss of foundation tree species in New England forests at 7:00 PM+ in Harvard Forest's Fisher Museum.

• SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - NEBC at Harvard Forest - printable PDF schedule

September 14-16, 2018 with presentation Saturday September 15, 6:45 pm  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Jan Salick, Missouri Botanical Garden
• "Climate and Environmental Changes to Indigenous Lands and Plants on the Cape, Coast and Islands"
• Held at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA
• This will be a joint meeting with the Botanical Club of Cape Cod and the Islands (BCCCI) to celebrate their 20th anniversary.
• Complete details and Registration and Payment on Field Trips page

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June 1-2, 2018  Meeting Notice & Schedule (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Gretel Clarke, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
• "Depletion of potential invaders from intra-continental sources: Implications for assisted migration"
• Held at Smith College, Northampton, MA
• Required Registration Form is for parking permit, workshop/field trip choices, light buffet dinner. (first save the blank form, reopen and fill it out, save again and attach to email)
• Schedule of Events (all free):

May 4, 2018  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Robert Bertin, Anthony and Renee Marlon Professor in the Sciences, Biology Department, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
• "Patterns and Changes in the Flora of Franklin County, Massachusetts"
• Held at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA

April 6, 2018 Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• NEBC Distinguished Speaker
• Dr. James Lendemer, Assistant Curator, Lichenology, Institute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, and Assistant Professor, Department of Biology Graduate Center, City University of New York
• "New England Lichens: Leveraging Past Riches to Understand the Present and Future"

March 2, 2018  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Andrew Leslie, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI
• "The Evolution of Conifer Cones Across Time and Space"

February 2, 2018  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Bob Wernerehl, State Botanist, Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, Westboro, MA
• "Rare Vascular Plants in Massachusetts: Natural Heritage Maps the Mystery"

January 5, 2018  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBC Member Potluck Dinner and Show & Tell
• "Eighteenth Ensemble of Entertaining Expeditions and Exquisite Entrées"
• Potluck dinner (5:30 PM)
• Held at the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife's Cronin Building, 1 Rabbit Hill Road, Westborough, MA (Room 108 – Southeast Conference Room)

December 1, 2017  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Alden Griffith, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
• "Bridging Ecological Scales Through Demography"

November 3, 2017  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Louise Lewis, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
• "Green Eggs and A.m. (Ambystoma maculatum)"

October 13, 2017  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Emily Alderton, Environmental Change Research Centre, Dept of Geography, UCL, London, England
• "Ghost Ponds: Resurrecting Lost Ponds and Species to Assist Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation"

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May 5, 2017  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Dov Sax, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Institute at Brown for Environment & Society, Brown University, Providence RI.
• "Identifying Species at Risk from Climate Change and Considering Alternative Conservation Strategies"
• Held at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA

April 7, 2017  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• NEBC Distinguished Speaker
• Dr. Dennis Whigham, Senior Botanist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and North American Orchid Conservation Center, Edgewater, MD
• "Native Orchids and Mycorrhiza – Ecologically Complex Interactions"

March 3, 2017  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Charles Davis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Vascular Plants, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• "Creating and Leveraging a Virtual Herbarium of New England for Biodiversity Science"

February 3, 2017  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Jenica Allen, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.
• "Invasive Plant Risks and Advantages with Climate and Land Use Change"

January 6, 2017  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBC Member Potluck Dinner and Show & Tell
• Seventeenth Shindig for Spirited Stories of Special Specimens and Sparkling Servings of Scrumptious Snacks
• Potluck dinner (5:30 PM)
• Held at the new Division of Fisheries and Wildlife's Cronin Building, 1 Rabbit Hill Road, Westborough, MA (Room 108 – Southeast Conference Room)

December 2, 2016  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Dr. Anna Aguilera, Assistant Professor, Biology Department, Simmons College, Boston, MA
• "Aquatic and Terrestrial Decomposition of the Invasive Norway Maple"

November 4, 2016  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Melissa Dow Cullina, Director of Education & Staff Botanist, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME
• "Plants and Flowers of Maine: Kate Furbish's Watercolors"

October 7, 2016  Meeting Notice (pdf file) - Lecture Video

• Meghan Blumstein, PhD student, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• "Preserving plants in the face of pests: Lessons learned in Cornwall and Devon"

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June 4-5, 2016 

• Summer "away" meeting with the New York Flora Association in the Hudson River Valley.
• Field trips, accommodations, and activities will be at Black Rock Forest in Cornwall, NY.  Explore the habitat diversity throughout the 3,838-acre forest, with field trips on Saturday and Sunday, and a speaker on Saturday.  Black Rock Forest Maps
• Complete details and Registration and Payment on Field Trips page.

May 13, 2016  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Ted Elliman, Vegetation Management Coordinator, New England Wild Flower Society, Framingham, MA (Held at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA)
• "New Guide to New England Wildflowers"
• Copies of Wildflowers of New England will be available for sale at the NEWFS Garden Shop/Visitor Center. Price is $25.00 (NEWFS members' price $22.50)

April 1, 2016  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Danny Haelewaters, Danny Haelewaters, PhD candidate, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• "Current research on Laboulbeniales fungi in New England"

March 4, 2016  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Art Gilman, Gilman and Briggs Environmental, Barre, VT
• "Incidents in the Development of the New Flora of Vermont"

February 5, 2016  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBC Distinguished Speaker
• Dr. David Foster, Director, Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, MA
• "Conservation Management in New England: Insight From the Land and its History"

January 8, 2016  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBC Membership
• "Sixteenth Soirée for Savory Samples and Superb Species and Scenery"
• Potluck dinner (5:30 PM) and member's "Show and Tell"
• Held at the new Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Cronin building, 1 Rabbit Hill Road, Westborough, MA (Room 108 – Southeast Conference Room)

December 4, 2015  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Michael S. Dosmann, Curator of Living Collections, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
• "Red needles in green haystacks: On the trail of the wild paperbark maple (Acer griseum)"

November 6, 2015  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Jeffrey D. White, Assistant Professor of Biology, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
• "Influence of Trait and Environmental Variation on the Ecology of a Harmful Phytoplankter (Microcystis aeruginosa)"

October 2, 2015  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Rafael Medina, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
• "Mosses, DNA and Old Papers"

September 12, 2015 Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Away Meeting and Field Trip on Nantucket, MA September 11-13, 2015
• Dr. Ernie Steinauer, well-known naturalist and Director of Mass Audubon's Sesachacha Heathlands Wildlife Sanctuary
• "Nantucket Sandplain Habitats: Origins, Importance, and Management Challenges."
• At the UMASS Field Station, Nantucket, MA
• See Field Trip information for more details

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May 1, 2015  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. David Hibbett, Professor of Biology, Clark University, Worcester, MA
• "Getting to the Roots of Rot: Phylogenomics of Wood-Decaying Mushrooms"
• At Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA

April 10, 2015  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBC Distinguished Speaker
• Dr. Ned Friedman, Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Boston, MA
• "Mutants in our Midst: Darwin, Horticulture, and Evolution"

March 6, 2015  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• 1100^th Meeting of the New England Botanical Club, Celebrating Students
• Tomas Zavada, UMASS Boston, Boston, MA
• "Case Studies in Domestication and Biological Invasions in Genera Cichorium and Centaurea (Asteraceae)"

February 6, 2015  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Patricia Swain, Natural Community Ecologist, Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, Westborough, MA
• "Revising the Classification of Natural Communities of Massachusetts"

January 9, 2015  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBC members & guests, NEBC membership
• "Fifteenth Felicificative Fanfare for Floriferous and Fructiferous Favorites"
• Potluck dinner ( 5:30pm ) and member's "Show and Tell"
• Held at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA

December 5, 2014  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Gaius R. Shaver, Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
• "Climate Change, Local Adaptation, and Arctic Plant Communities"

November 7, 2014  Meeting Notice

• Dr. Tim Whitfeld, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University
• "Calling Attention to the Revival of Research Activity at Brown University's Herbarium: From New England to New Guinea"

October 3, 2014  Meeting Notice

• Dr. David S. Barrington, Professor of Plant Biology, Director of the Pringle Herbarium, University of Vermont
• "A Biogeographic Perspective on the Fern Genus Polystichum"

September 6, 2014  Meeting NoticeStudent Travel Grant

• Russ Cohen, professional environmentalist, wild foods enthusiast, and author of "Wild Plants I Have Known … and Eaten"
• "Edible Wild Plants and Mushrooms of New England"
• Away meeting at D Acres of New Hampshire – Permaculture Farm & Educational Homestead, Dorchester, New Hampshire. Please register early using the registration form.

June 13-15, 2014  Meeting Notice - Field Trip Information

• Saturday Evening Speaker -Dr. Tom Philbrick , Department of Biology & Environmental Sciences, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT
• "Flowering Plants in River Rapids & Waterfalls: The Role of NEBC in Leading a Botanist to the Tropics"
• Trip Leaders: Ken Metzler, John Anderson, and Bryan Connolly
• NEBC Away Field Trip – Yale Forestry Camp/Great Mountain Forest, Norfolk, CT, June 13-15, 2014.
• Registration deadline June 1, 2014

May 2, 2014  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Bill Brumback, Conservation Director, New England Wild Flower Society
• Held at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA
• "Flora Conservanda 2012: Changes in New England's Rare Flora"

April 4, 2014  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBC Distinguished Speaker
• Dr. Pamela Diggle, Associate Department Head, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, and Current President of the Botanical Society of America
• "Learned Societies: Past, Present, and Future"

March 7, 2014  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Francie Chew, Professor of Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution, Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA
• "Roles of Exotic Invasive Plants in the Decline and Subsequent Recovery of a Population of a Native Butterfly"

February 7, 2014  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Tristram Seidler, Herbarium Curator, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
• "The Role of Seed Banks in Plant Conservation"

January 10, 2014  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBC Membership
• "Fourteenth Foray into Fantastic Flora and Flavorsome Feasts"
• Potluck dinner (5:30 PM) and member's "Show and Tell"

December 6, 2013  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Glenn Motzkin, botanist/ecologist
• "Conifer Swamps of Central and Western Massachusetts"

November 1, 2013  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Peter Crane, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Professor of Botany, Yale University, New Haven, CT
• "Ginkgo: An Evolutionary and Cultural Biography"

October 4, 2013  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Tom Rawinski, Botanist, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH
• "Deer, Forests, and People: Understanding and Managing Socioecological Systems"

Sept 14, 2013 Meeting Notice and Field Trip Information (pdf files)

• Field Trip to Myles Standish State Forest
• Speaker: Tim Simmons, Restoration Ecologist, Massachusetts Natural Heritage Program
• "Pine Barrens: Origins, Biodiversity, and Management" at 6pm
• Trip Leaders: Tim Simmons, Irina Kadis, and Bryan Connolly

June 8-10, 2013 Meeting Notice - Field Trip Information (pdf files)

• "Away" Field Trip to Vermont - Dr. Charles V. Cogbill, Plainfield, VT
• "Presettlement Forests of New England" on June 8th
• NOTE: Please submit the registration form by May 31, 2013

May 3, 2013  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Kristen Porter-Utley, Keene State College, Keene, NH
• "Untangling the Passionflower Vines: An Evolutionary Analysis of Passiflora subgenus Decaloba"
• Held at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA

April 5, 2013  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBC Distinguished Speaker
• Dr. Christopher S. Campbell, Dept of Biol. Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME
• "Evolution and systematics of Amelanchier (Rosaceae)"

March 1, 2013  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Donald J. Padgett, Department of Biological Sciences, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA
• "The Nymph's Ugly Cousin: Studies in Nuphar"

February 1, 2013  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Bryan A. Connolly, State Botanist, Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program
• "The Amazing Antioxidant, Apogamous, and Amorous Genus Aronia"

January 11, 2013  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBC Membership
• "Thirteenth Toast to Taxonomy and Tasty Treats"
• Potluck dinner (5:30 PM) and member's "Show and Tell"

December 7, 2012  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Karen Lombard, Director of Stewardship and Restoration, The Nature Conservancy, Massachusetts
• "Where are we in Invasive Plant Management?: Lessons from Two Long-Term Invasive Plant Management Projects"

November 2, 2012  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Kristina Jones, Director of the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens (WCBG) and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College
• "A Passion for Plants: How to Get Students Excited About Botany"

October 5, 2012  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Chad Jones, Assistant Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Connecticut College
• "Patterns of Exotic Species Colonization in a Forested Landscape"

September 22-23, 2012  Meeting Notice - Field Trip Information (pdf files)

• Saturday Evening Speaker - Prof. Keith Killingbeck, University of Rhode Island
• "Autumn leaves in New England: How nutrient conservation fuels a kaleidoscope of color"
• Speaker's Location: Wood River Inn opposite the Stagecoach Inn in Wyoming, RI
• Trip Coordinators: Bryan Hamlin and George Newman
• Location: Rhode Island.
• See attached PDF for details. Please register by September 8, 2012.

June 1, 2012  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Lisa Standley, Chief Environmental Scientist, VHB Inc., Watertown, MA, and NEBC Curator of Vascular Plants
• "The Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology of Carex - A Personal Perspective"

May 4, 2012  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Bill Brumback, Conservation Director, New England Wild Flower Society, Framingham, MA
• "GoBotany: Can an Electronic Field Guide Increase Botanical Learning?"
• Held at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA

April 6, 2012  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• NEBC Distinguished Speaker
• Dr. Gregory J. Anderson, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
• "What Is So Paradoxical* About the Nightshades (Solanaceae)?"
  (*In tribute to Charles Heiser and his book,"Nightshades, the Paradoxical Plants")

March 2, 2012  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Charles Davis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Curator of Vascular Plants HUH, Harvard University
• "Changes in the Flora in Thoreau's Woods: Evidence of Climate Change"

February 3, 2012  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Patricia Swain, Natural Community Ecologist, Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
• "Unusual Natural Communities and Rare Plants of the Housatonic Watershed in Massachusetts"

January 6, 2012   Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• "Twelfth Top Toothsome and Taxonomic Tales"
• All members and guests are invited to share culinary and visual potluck!
• 5:30-6:45 PM - food and drink in the Seminar Room (room 105)
• 6:45 PM - show and tell in the Haller Lecture Hall (room 102)

December 2, 2011  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Jesse Bellemare, Smith College, Northampton, MA
• "Climate Change and Plant Conservation in the Forests of Eastern North America"

November 4, 2011  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Arthur Haines, New England Wild Flower Society, Framingham, MA
• "The Flora Novae Angliae"

October 7, 2011  Meeting Notice (pdf file)

• Dr. Colleen Butler, Ph.D. from Tufts University, Medford, MA
• "Ecology and Physiology of Green Roof Plant Communities"

September 17, 2011   Field Trip Notice (pdf file)

• Trip Coordinator: Dr. Bryan Hamlin
• Location: Middlesex Fells, Northern Boston Suburbs.
• See attached PDF for details. Please RSVP by Sept. 15, 2011.

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