Plant Talk

An informal lunchtime seminar venue in the Biology Department at Florida International University

We will usually meet on Wednesdays at 3:30 pm in WC 130 [see specific date and time schedule below]

We invite you to join us

for this year's smorgasbord of:

relaxed research presentations, half-baked hypotheses, travelogues, virtual visits to near and far away field sites, and who knows?  The lineup is ever-changing and the best is yet to come...

If you would like more information, or to give a presentation, please contact Suzanne Koptur (ph. 305-348-3103)

 
 

date and location (WC 130 unless otherwise)

Speaker

Topic

9 September

Scott Zona

The Botany of Salvia


16 September

Brad Bennett

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

23 September

no plant talk - SERC Brownbag


30 September

no plant talk


7 October

David Lee

Botanical Travels Way out West

14 October

no plant talk - SERC Brownbag


21 October

Amy Faivre (Cedarcrest College)

Chocolate and Coffee: Stimulating our World

28 October

Suzanne Koptur

Coffee in the air - plants and animals of  Coatepec, in the mountains of Veracruz State, Mexico

4 November

Mike Matthews

Investigating alternative methods for experiential environmental education

10 November (note - this is Tuesday due to Veteran's Day Holiday the 11th)

Ron Mossman

Seed Dispersal and Reproduction Patterns Among Everglades Plants

18 November

Kathleen Sullivan-Sealey

(University of Miami)

Impact of coastal plant communities on near shore marine environments:  role of coastal buffer zones in preventing eutrophication in extreme rainfall events

13 January 2010

Roxaneh Khorsand

Bees, buriti, and the Brazilian Amazon

20 January

David Lee

Plants, Landscapes and Culture in Yunnan, Southwest China

27 January

Chad Husby

Tropical conifers:  Jurassic plants in nature and in cultivation

3 February

Janna Rose

an ethnobotanist in Turkey

10 Feb

no plant talk this week


17 February

Jay Sah

categorizing vegetation in South Florida

24 February

Philip Seaton (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)

seed banking and plant conservation

3 March

no plant talk


10 March

no plant talk


17 March

spring break - no plant talk


24 March

Ken Feeley

Species Distribution Models:

        problem and applications

31 March

no plant talk


7 April

Paulo Olivas  

Antarctic plants!


14 April

Joyce Maschinski

Evaluating two decades of rare plant reintroduction: implications for assisted migration


21 April