NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 2018-2019 PROGRAM CALENDAR http://www.rhodora.org/

All meetings are at 6:45 PM on first Fridays at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 (door to right of Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance) (except September, October, January, and May)

September 15 Dr. Jan Salick, Senior Curator, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO "Climate and Environmental Changes to Indigenous Lands and Plants on the Cape, Coast and Islands" Held at Woods Hole, MA. Joint meeting with the Botanical Club of Cape Cod and the Islands (BCCCI) to celebrate their 20th anniversary includes several field trips.

October 13 Dr. Aaron Ellison, Senior Research Fellow in 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. Includes workshop, field trip, and Hemlock Hospice tour.

November 2 Dr. Michael Dosmann, Keeper of the Living Collections, Arnold Arboretum, Boston, MA “Is Plant Exploration Dead in a Plant-blind Era?"

December 7 Dr. Diana Jolles, Assistant Professor of & Director, Plymouth State University Herbarium (PSH), Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH “Genetic Diversity and Phyloecology of the Western North American Pyrola picta Species Complex (Ericaceae)”

January 11 NEBC Membership “Nineteenth Narrative and Notes on Nature with Nutritious Nibbles” Potluck dinner (5:30 PM) and member’s "Show and Tell” Held at the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife’s Cronin Building, 1 Rabbit Hill Road, Westborough, MA (room 108 – Southeast Conference Room)

February 1 Dr. Kristina Stinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA “The Ecology and Impacts of Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)”

March 1 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, 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”

April 5 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”

May 3 Dr. Emily Meineke, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA “Herbivory Through the Ages: Herbarium Specimens as a Window into Past Species Interactions” Held at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA

June 15 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. Includes workshops and field trips June14-16.