Next Meeting

November 7, 2025 featuring a lecture by Dr. Chris Martine. Hybrid and over Zoom. Visit our 2025-2026 Program Calendar.

Announcements

Issue #1006 of Rhodora is available. See this page for free electronic access for members through BioOne.

Special Publication describing the Vascular Flora of Franklin County, Massachusetts is available for purchase and free PDF download here.

“NEBS Mission and Vision statements and Strategic Goals for 2020-2025″

Lecture Series Videos

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

Videos of Past Meetings

This page provides videos and/or summaries of meetings. To view our archive of past lectures visit our YouTube page here.

For a list of upcoming meetings, click here. Summaries of NEBS lectures are also published quarterly in Rhodora.

Previous Meetings

June 27, 2025 – Meeting Notice (pdf file)

  • Mark Richardson, Executive Director of US branch of Botanic Gardens Conservation International and Ecologial Landscape Alliance, in addition to Director of Strategic Horticulture Partnerships for New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
  • “An Introduction to Botanic Gardens Conservation International and the Ecological Landscape Alliance”
  • Held at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, MA
  • Schedule Details:
    • 1:00- 2:30 PM – Mark Richardson’s presentation
    • 2:30 – 3:30 PM – Explore New England Botanic Garden
    • 3:45 to 5:30 PM – Field trip to a water supply protection land featuring a narrow glacial ridge, as well as a sandy shore of a large water body.

May 2, 2025 – Meeting Notice (pdf file)

  • Meredith Elizabeth Theus, PhD candidate & 2023 recipient of NEBS’ Graduate Student Research Award, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • “The Role of Plant Diversity in Wetland Greenhouse Gas Emissions”

AND

  • Andrea J. Tirrell, PhD candidate & 2023 recipient of NEBS’ Graduate Student Research Award, School of Biology & Ecology, Climate Change Institute, University of MAine, Orono, ME
  • “Alpine Plant Communities of Katahdin: A Resurvey After 33 Years”
  • Held at Native Plant Trust’s Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA

April 4, 2025Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Lecture Video

  • Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA
  • “A Vision for the Harvard University Herbarium in Our Rapidly Changing World”
  • 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) and via Zoom
  • We welcome you to join us on a tour of the Farlow Herbarium, including the Farlow Library reading room and collection spacces. The tour takes place Friday, April 4, 2025, at 3-4:30 PM ahead of our monthly member meeting and will be led by Harvard University Herbaria staff. Space is limited to 20 people.

March 7, 2025Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Lecture Video

  • Dr. Don Hudson (NEBS Outgoing President), President Emeritus, Chewonki, Arrowsic, Maine
  • “Forests, Fish, and a Botanist’s Excursion into Riverine and Near Ocean Habitat Restoration”
  • NOTE Change: Via Zoom ONLY!

February 7, 2025Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Lecture Video

  • Dr. Robert Bertin, Professor Emeritus of Biology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
  • “Two Tales of Floristic Change in Southern New England: Orchids and Northern Species”
  • 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) and via Zoom

January 10, 2025Meeting Notice (pdf file)

  • NEBS Membership
  • “25th Triumphant Togetherness: Tantalizing Taxonomy, Tempting Treats, & Thrilling Treasures”
  • Member’s potluck dinner, raffle, and “show & tell” starting at 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)
  • IN PERSON ONLY

December 6, 2024Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Lecture Video

  • Dr. Min Ya, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  • “Patterning the Meristem – Development and Evolution of the Floral Ground Plan”
  • 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) and via Zoom

November 1, 2024Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Farlow 100 Symposium Video

  • Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany celebrates 100 years!
  • Celebrating 100 years of the Farlow Herbarium: Link to Speakers, Program, Registration, & Parking
  • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  • 8 AM – 1 PM: Invited guests speaking about their research on fungi, lichens, and bryophytes and the importance of collections
  • 2-3 PM and 3-4 PM: Glass Flower Tours
  • IN PERSON and live-streamed on the Harvard University Herbaria YouTube Channel

October 4, 2024Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Lecture VideoEcological Assessment PublicationAccompanying Maps

  • Janet McMahon, consulting ecologist
  • “A River in Space and Time: Lessons from the Allagash”
  • This meeting is ZOOM only

June 15, 2024 – SATURDAY – 9AM – 6:30PMMeeting Notice (pdf file) – Trip Summary

  • “Away Meeting” hosted by Timothy Boland, Executive Director, and Emily Ellingson, Curator & Assistant Director, Polly Hill Arboretum, West Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
  • “Plant Conservation Initiatives of the Polly Hill Arboretum”
  • Held at Polly Hill Arboretum, West Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
  • IN PERSON ONLY
  • DESCRIPTION OF EVENT: This meeting will be an enriching, all-day immersive experience at the Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard, on Saturday June 15, 2024. Registration will be required. Pedestrian passage should be booked individually by participants on the 8:15 AM ferry from Woods Hole to Vineyard Haven. NEBS will provide transportation to and from the ferry landing at Vineyard Haven. We will kick off the meeting with a warm welcome and remarks by Executive Director Tim Boland and Assistant Director and Curator Emily Ellingson at 9:30 am. Activities of the day will feature an Arboretum Tour, walk along the Native Tree Trail, a picnic-style lunch, lecture on the conservation activities of the Polly Hill Arboretum, and a display and discussion of plant rarities of Martha’s Vineyard. The day will close with libations and treats at the Arboretum’s “Far Barn” at 5 PM. Participants will then be shuttled back to Vineyard Haven to catch the 7:15 PM ferry or enjoy an overnight on the island. PHA’s recommended lodging for those interested in making the trip into an overnight: The Mansion House, within walking distance of the restaurants and ferry in Vineyard Haven. The registration fee will cover a donation to the PHA, on-island transportation, and food.

May 3, 2024Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Lecture Video

  • Neela de Zoysa, recipient of a 2022 Les Mehrhoff Botanical Research Award and instructor at Native Plant Trust, Framingham, MA
  • “Climbing Plants of the Northeastern United States”
  • IN PERSON ONLY
  • Held at Native Plant Trust’s Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA
  • Free entrance after 5 pm; Neela will lead a walk at 5:15 pm
  • Lichen Identification Clinic from 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM, led by NEBS Cryptogam Herbarium Curator Elizabeth Kneiper and volunteers Hal Schaefer and Kay Hurley

April 5, 2024Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Lecture Video

  • Ted Elliman, MA botany/ecology instructor, retired Native Plant Trust, and Lauren Brown, CT author, VP Connecticut Botanical Society
  • “Unlocking the Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes: Fresh Approaches to Identifying these Challenging Plants”

March 1, 2024Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Publication on EABLecture Video

  • Dr. John Daigle, Professor of Forest Recreation Management, School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME
  • “Building a Community of Interest and Response to an Invasive Species Threatening Maine’s Ash Trees and Wabanaki Cultural Lifeways”
  • 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) and via Zoom

February 2, 2024Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Lecture Video

  • Dr. Rachel Spicer, Associate Professor of Botany, Connecticut College, New London, CT
  • “Connecting the Vasculature in Leaves and Woody Stems: Auxin Biosynthesis and Transport in Trees”
  • This meeting is ZOOM ONLY!

January 12, 2024Meeting Notice (pdf file)

  • NEBS Membership
  • “24th Convocation of Consumption, Celebration of Classification, and Collecting of Curiosities”
  • 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 1, 2023Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Lecture Video

  • Bobbi Angell, Botanical Illustrator
  • “Darwin and the Art of Botany”
  • Copies of her book “Darwin and the Art of Botany: Observations on the Curious World of Plants” will be available for sale and for signing. It is $30 per book: cash, check, or credit card.
  • 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) and via Zoom

November 3, 2023Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Lecture Video

  • Dr. Lena Struwe, Professor and Director of the Chrysler Herbarium, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  • “From Vasculums to iPhones: The History of Field Research Tools and the Stories Herbarium Specimens Tell Us”
  • 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) and via Zoom

October 6, 2023Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Lecture Video

  • Dr. Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg, Robert E. King Distinguished Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO, and Associate of the Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA
  • “Grasses of the Prairies”
  • 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) and via Zoom

September 23, 2023 – Saturday – in person only

  • Trip to Harvard Natural History Museum Exhibit: “In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss”
  • Prior to 1 pm, meet trip leader, Melissa Cullina, in the entrance lobby, of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
  • Join us for an afternoon experiencing this multidisciplinary exhibit at the intersection of science and art. Serving as the foundation of the exhibit are Henry David Thoreau’s 648 plant specimens preserved at the Harvard University Herbaria. The exhibit explores the theme of plants as indicators of how our world is responding to climate change, and features works by artists Robin Vuchnich and Leah Sobsey. Dr. Chuck Davis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology & Curator of Vascular Plants at Harvard University Herbaria, is one of three scholars who provided the scientific framework for the exhibit and collaborated with the artists. At the beginning of our visit, he will introduce the exhibit and provide context on its development. Read more about the exhibit on the museum’s website.

June 23, 2023 – FRIDAY at 6:30 PMRegistration will be required by everyoneMeeting Notice (pdf file) – Slideshow

  • Dr. Kristina Niovi Jones, Director, Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, Faculty, Biological Sciences, and Advisory Faculty, Environmental Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
  • “A Sustainable Conservatory in New England? Lessons from Wellesley College’s Global Flora Project” followed by a tour of the Global Flora Conservatory at Wellesley College, MA
  • Meeting and tour held at Wellesley College Botanic Garden, Wellesley, MA.
  • 3:30 – 5:00 PM NEBS Workshop by Dr. Lisa StandleyWorkshop VideoWorkshop Handout
  • “How to Collect Vascular Plant Specimens.”
  • The NEBS Herbarium’s goal is to serve as a significant force in efforts to document the changing flora of New England through maintaining, digitizing, and sharing the organization’s invaluable collections, and by spearheading the generation of new collections and botanical data to support researchers in their efforts to understand floristic changes transpiring in the current era.
  • To do this, we are reviving the practice of collecting vascular plant specimens for the herbarium. This workshop is intended to train plant collectors and encourage them to support the NEBS mission. We will cover the philosophy and ethics of modern plant collecting, data collection, and methods for collecting plant specimens that are scientifically valuable, aesthetically interesting, and respectful of the ecosystem. The workshop will include a conversation and demonstration, and practice in collecting and pressing plant material.
  • We will be in the field for a portion of the workshop, so please dress appropriately and be prepared for ticks, mosquitos, and poison ivy. We will provide most equipment and material, but bring a small notebook. Other equipment is optional (field guide, clippers, trowel).
  • Workshop and Lecture/Tour are IN PERSON ONLY

May 6, 2023Meeting Notice (pdf file)

  • Dr. Kirsten Coe, Assistant Professor, Dept of Biology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
  • “Sphagnum Moss-Associated Nitrogen Fixation in New England Peatlands”
  • Held at Native Plant Trust’s Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA
  • Free admission and parking after 5 PM; NPT Garden Shop open until 6 PM
  • IN PERSON ONLY

April 1, 2023Meeting Notice (pdf file) – Lecture Video

March 4, 2023Meeting 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, 2023Meeting 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 TrustEric 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

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

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 VideoCaitlin McDonough MacKenzie Lecture VideoResources on E L Rand, Champlain Society, Acadia National ParkRand’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

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”

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”

June 4-5, 2016

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

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 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 Notice – Student 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 NoticeField 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 NoticeField 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 NoticeField 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.

Summaries of Past Meetings

Note: All summaries are in PDF format. If you do not have Adobe Reader, you may get it free here.

Select the year for a dropdown list. (More to come)

2008
  • JanuaryNEBC Membership – Eighth Ethnobotanical Exploration and Eating Event
  • FebruaryMichaela Schmull – Substrate Influence on Speciation of Lichenized Fungi
  • MarchNoel H. Holmgren – Intermountain Flora: Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Middle Rocky Mountains
  • AprilDan H. Nicolson – My Beautiful Life
  • MayIhsan Al-Shehbaz – Diversity, systematics, and phylogeny of the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae)
  • JuneErnie Schuyler and others at New Jersey Pine Barrens
  • OctoberMark Skinner – The USDA PLANTS Database: A digital flora for the future
  • NovemberBenjamin van Ee – Phylogenetics of the Philippine species of Rafflesia (Rafflesiaceae s.s.)

2007
  • JanuaryNEBC Membership – Seventh Segue into Sustenance and Selected Species
  • FebruaryArthur Haines & Melissa Dow-Cullina – Our Evolving Understanding of the Massachusetts Rare Flora: Collaborations from the Herbarium, Field, and Desktop
  • MarchRichard Primack & Abe Miller-Rushing – Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Concord: A Community Perspective
  • AprilGeorge W. Argus – Why is the taxonomy of Salix so difficult?
  • MayDavid Hewitt – The genus Neolecta – hidden diversity in New England, surprising uniformity across the Atlantic
  • JuneJulie Richburg & others in western MA A preview of Notchview Reservation: History, natural communities and special species
  • OctoberElena M. Kramer – Where Do New Floral Parts Come From?
  • NovemberLaurence J. Dorr – Ny Hasina: The Gift, Madagascar’s Contribution to Horticulture
  • DecemberPeter S. Ashton – Why are the Asian tropics so different?

2006
  • JanuaryNEBC Membership – Sixth Segue into Sustenance and Selected Species
  • FebruaryDavid Ellum – Plasticity vs. Acclimation: Response Pathways of Forest Understory Herbs to Seasonal Increases in Light Environments and the Implications for Plant Conservation in Managed Forests of Southern New England
  • MarchArthur Gilman – The Enigmatic Ophioglossales
  • AprilRobbin Moran – Helpful and Harmful Ferns
  • MayJoan Edwards – Botanical Explosions: Ultra-fast Movements in Plants
  • JuneVarious speakers at Camp Hi-Rock, Mt. Washington, MA
  • SeptemberLelia Elliston – Natural History, Floral Morphology, and Population Biology of Sabatia kennedyana
  • OctoberJill Bubier – Effects of nutrient addition on carbon cycling in a boreal peatland
  • NovemberElizabeth Farnsworth – Historical and current patterns of plant rarity in New England
  • DecemberTony D’Amato – Old-growth forests in Massachusetts: Lenses into past forested landscapes of the Commonwealth

2005
  • JanuaryNEBC Membership – Fifth Foray into Food and Flowers
  • FebruaryLisa Standley – Lemurs, Lianas, and Lizards: A Natural History Tour of Madagascar
  • MarchJulie Richburg – Timing treatments to the phenology of root carbohydrate reserves to control woody invasive plants
  • AprilJames Reveal – Lewis and Clark’s Green World: The Plants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • MayNancy M. Eyster-Smith & Janet R. Sullivan – Journey of Discovery: 200 Years After Lewis & Clark
  • JuneNorton Miller at North Adams, MA – Aspects of Mountain and Alpine Bryology in the Northeast: Results of Recent Studies
  • SeptemberTatyana Livschultz – Systematic Studies in the Apocynaceae: Implications for the Evolution of Complex Pollination Mechanisms
  • OctoberMichael Donoghue at New Haven, CT – Radiation of the Dipsacales, including Caprifoliaceae, with special reference to eastern North America
  • NovemberDavid Hibbet – Morphological Evolution in Mushroom-Forming Fungi
  • DecemberKyle Williams – The Gingers of Southeast Asia: A Spicy Tale

2004
  • JanuaryNEBC Membership – Fourth Foray into Food and Flowers
  • MarchBernard Goffinet – When a phenotype belongs to multiple genotypes: Phylogenetic affinities of North American species in the lichen genus Dendriscocaulon
  • AprilJulie Dragon – Carex lenticularis and its allies: Phylogeny, biogeography, and species delimitation
  • MayCharles Sheviak – An Orchidological Odyssey: Systematics in a well-known group
  • May Field Trip – Southern Appalachian Botanical Foray (Valle Crucis, North Carolina)
  • JuneJames W. Hinds – New England Lichens, Ecology, Distribution and Changes in Abundance During the Last 100 Years
  • June Field Trip Lichen List
  • SeptemberChristopher D. Neefus – Living on the edge: Acclimation and adaptation of an intertidal seaweed
  • September Field Trip Notes – Wallis Sands in Rye, New Hampshire
  • OctoberDavid S. Barrington – The Big Thaw: New England Flora in the Holocene
  • NovemberGarrett Crow – In the footsteps of the 19th century naturalists: Plant exploration in the Amazon
  • DecemberJesse Bellemare – Environmental and Historical Controls on the Distribution and Variation of Rich Mesic Forests in Western Massachusetts

2003
  • JanuaryNEBC Membership – Potluck Dinner
  • FebruaryRebecca Pradhan – Rhododendrons and Conservation in Bhutan
  • MarchKristen Porter-Utley – The Apetalous Passionflowers: Phylogenetic Relationships within Passiflora Section Cieca (Passifloraceae)
  • AprilJianhua Li – Botanic Expeditions in Guizhou, China – In Search of Natural Populations of Ginkgo
  • MayPeter Alpert – Clonal plants and invasive species: Combining curiosity-driven and problem-directed research
  • JuneMatthew Hickler – Vegetation Patterns and Species Diversity: Floodplain Ponds of the Nashua River
  • June Field Trip – Ashburnham, Massachusetts
  • SeptemberErnie Steinauer – Restoring and Maintaining Nantucket’s Rare Plant Communities
  • OctoberWilliam A. Patterson, III – Fire Ecology and Burning Techniques
  • NovemberDavid Houston – Beech-bark disease and its effects on the northern forest
  • DecemberArthur Haines – NEWFS, an herbarium recovery project

2002
  • FebruaryScott Bailey – Case Studies in Geobotany: Refining our understanding of the influence of substrate on plants
  • MarchLisa A.Standley – Botanizing in the Extremes
  • JuneGlenn Motzkin – Historical Influences on the Vegetation of Massachusetts: Ecological and Conservation Implications
  • SeptemberMarcia Spencer-Famous – The Feasibility of Peatland Restoration
  • OctoberC. Barre Hellquist – Dodging crocodiles on tropical Australia for aquatic plants
  • NovemberDorothy J. Allard – A New Epiphytic Species of Pedicularis from Nepal: Description and Demography

2001
  • JanuaryNEBC Membership – Potluck Dinner
  • FebruaryStephanie Neid – Effects of deicing salts on roadside vegetation
  • MarchDavid Boufford – Hengduan Mountains, China: Hotspot of Biodiversity
  • AprilRobert Kral – Biology and Management of Rare Plants in the Southeastern United States
  • MayCarl W. Grobet – Seaweeds: The Underappreciated model systems
  • JuneKerry Woods – The imagined forest: Stability and change in old growth hemlock-northern hardwoods
  • SeptemberRichard Backus and Pamela Polloni – The Floral History of Penikese Island
  • OctoberKanchi Gandhi – The Phytogeography of India
  • NovemberJennifer Forman – Through the Looking Glass: History and Consequences of the Introduction of American Species into Europe

2000
  • JanuaryNEBC Membership – Potluck Dinner
  • FebruaryMichele Dionne – “Is the tide turning for salt-marsh ecology and restoration in the Gulf of Maine?
  • MarchDavid Conant – The Biology of Ferns
  • AprilPaul Godfrey – Biodiversity of Medicinal Plants in Northwestern Thailand
  • MayAvril de la Cretazt – Understory Restoration in a Watershed Degraded by Deer Browsing and Fern Invasion
  • JuneElizabeth Farnsworth – Present and future impacts of invasive plant species on wetland systems
  • JulyGeorge Newman – GASPÉ FIELD TRIP IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FERNALD
  • SeptemberLes Eastman – Naturalists of New England
  • OctoberJames Fownes – Productivity, disturbance and management of Hawaiian forests
  • NovemberRobert Bertin – Fifty years of change in the flora of Worcester, Massachusetts
  • DecemberMaile Neel – The structure of diversity:Implications for reserve design

1999
  • JanuaryCharles Katuska – Proactive Wetland Restoration in Massachusetts
  • FebruaryJanet Sullivan – “Reflections on 100 years of Rhodora
  • MarchThomas J. Rawinski – Travels through Virginia: Botanical Wonders and Conservation Victories
  • AprilPeter Raven – Plant Conservation Globally and Locally
  • MayPeter J. Walker – Biogeography and speciation in Ammophila
  • JuneAlison Dibble – Flora and Fauna of the Massabesic Experimental Forest: News from the current ecological inventory
  • SeptemberLes Mehrhoff – The Non-native Invasive and Potentially Invasive Flora of New England: A Regional Perspective
  • OctoberRick Enser – The Flora of Block Island, Rhode Island
  • NovemberBruce A. Sorrie – Diversity and endemism in the Coastal Plain Flora
  • DecemberLeila Shultz – Breaking new ground in floristics: Using geographic information systems to predict species distributions in western North America

1998
  • JanuaryNEBC Membership – Potluck Dinner
  • FebruaryBarre Hellquist – “Aquatic Plants of Australian Billabongs, Gilgais, and Backwaters
  • MarchDon Hudson – The New Natural History: A Naturalist’s Perspective on Science Education
  • AprilJohn Beaman – The Systematics and Evolution of the Flora of Mt. Kinabalu (Borneo): An Example of Conservation Biology in Action
  • MayGarrett Crow – Biodiversity of Aquatic Plants in Costa Rica and Bolivia: Is New England Really the Amazonia of Aquatic Diversity?
  • JuneAaron M. Ellison – Direct Interactions Between Northern Pitcher-plants () and Their Associated Animal CommunitiesSarracenia purpurea
  • SeptemberRudolf Schuster – Age, Reproduction and Distribution of the Hepaticae: Problems of Being a Haploid
  • OctoberLisa A. Standley – Beyond the Brooks Range–Flora and Fauna of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
  • NovemberBruce Lindwall – The Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Plants
  • DecemberNEBC Membership – Potluck Dinner – Verdant Venues and Ventures: Visible and Verbal Visions

1997
  • JanuaryNEBC Membership – Potluck Dinner
  • FebruaryElizabeth Kneiper – “Boston Lichens: Then and Now
  • AprilGustavo Romero – Botanizing in the Lowland Guyana Region
  • MayKeith T. Killingbeckt – The ecology of desert shrubs: Encounters with paradox and dogma in the arid Southwest
  • JuneKaren Searcy – Balds on Bare Mountain
  • SeptemberArthur Gilman – Flora of Caledonia County in northeastern Vermont
  • OctoberKamaljit Bawa – Tropical Biodiversity Losses: Magnitude and Solutions
  • NovemberStephen Spongberg – New Plants in Yankee Soils – An Abbreviated History of Plant Introduction from Eastern Asia
  • DecemberHarlan Banks – Sixty Years with Devonian Plants

1996
  • JuneGarrett Crow – Botanizing in Newfoundland: In Anticipation of the Centennial Field Excursion
  • SeptemberPamela Weatherbee – Mount Greylock: Haven for Berkshire Flora
  • OctoberThompson Webb III – Vegetational History of New England and Eastern North America: A 20,000 year perspective
  • NovemberRichard A. Howard – An Illustrated History of the New England Botanical Club
  • DecemberDavid Barrington – What We Don’t Know About the New England Flora and Why We Want To Know It