Botany 2017 Symposia & Colloquia
Symposia
4D Botany of the Anthropogenic Environment
Organized by: Rachel Meyer, University of California Los Angeles, Margaret S. Devall, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research, and Suzanne Koptur, Florida International University, kopturs@fiu.edu
Big Data and the Conservation of North America's Flora
Organized by: Anne Frances, NatureServe and Peggy Olwell, Bureau of Land Management
The Role of Boundaries in Plant Diversification
Organized by: Chelsea D. Specht, University of California Berkeley, and Madelaine Bartlett, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Geology and Plant Life: the growing legacy of Arthur Kruckeberg
Organized by: Alan Pepper, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Natalia Ivalú Cacho, Instituto de Biologia-UNAM, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, Ryan O'Dell, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Marina, CA, Loren H. Rieseberg, University of British Columbia, Canada, and John Willis, Duke Unversity
Green digitization: online botanical collections data answering real-world questions
Organized by: Pamela Soltis, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gil Nelson, iDigBio, Florida State University, and Shelley A. James, iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History
Getting everyone involved: Saving the seaside alder
Organized by: Stanley Rice, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, and Phil Gibson, University of Oklahoma
Colloquia
Campanian-Maastrichtian floras on Laramidia: vegetation trends west of the seaway
Organized by: Lisa D. Boucher, University of Texas-Austin, and Dori L. Contreras, University of California-Berkeley
A Single Symbiota-based Herbarium Network for the US
Organized by: Mary Barkworth, Utah State University, and Steve Buckley, National Park Service
Organized by: Kim Taylor, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Dwayne Estes, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Austin Peay State University, and Peter Fritsch, Botanical Research Institute of Texas
