Posted in People, Science on Nov 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Staffer Discovers Home, Resting Place of NYBG Founders on Staten Island
Lisa Vargues is Curatorial Assistant of the Herbarium.
In honor of the 150th birthday this year of Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934), who with his wife, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858–1934), founded The New York Botanical Garden, I set out to retrace some of his footsteps. My pursuit provided further [...]
Posted in Learning Experiences, Science on Oct 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Susan Fraser is Director of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
Paradigm shifts have altered the way knowledge is communicated—from the written word to the printed word and now to the digital word. The proliferation of electronic resources and rapid changes in technology require increased flexibility in how libraries acquire and disseminate knowledge. One remarkable example is [...]
Posted in Programs and Events, Science on Oct 1st, 2009 No Comments »
NYBG Hosts Free Presentation on the History of Amateur Mycology
Brian M. Boom, Ph.D., is President of the Torrey Botanical Society and Director of the Caribbean Biodiversity Program at The New York Botanical Garden.
Founded in 1867 in New York City, the Torrey Botanical Society is the oldest botanical association in the Americas. Throughout its long, distinguished [...]
Posted in Science, Wildlife on Sep 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Cricket Crawl at the Garden Confirms Presence of These—and More
Jessica Arcate is Manager of the Forest.
Robert Naczi, Ph.D., is Curator of North American Botany.
On the evening of Saturday, September 12, a fearless group of five naturalists outfitted with headlamps and recording equipment, ventured throughout the Botanical Garden to listen for seven species of crickets and [...]
Posted in Science on Sep 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Scott A. Mori, Ph.D., Nathaniel Lord Britton Curator of Botany, has been studying New World rain forests for The New York Botanical Garden for over 30 years. Over the course of his career, Dr. Mori has witnessed an unrelenting reduction in the extent of the tropical forests he studies.
On August 22, an image showing a [...]
Posted in Exhibitions, Science, The Edible Garden on Sep 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Valerie Imbruce, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Environmental Studies at Bennington College in Vermont who was a doctoral student at the Botanical Garden, researches the production and distribution of ethnic fruits and vegetables for New York City markets. She will be holding an informal conversation about ethnic fruits and vegetables in Chinatown and urban food [...]
Posted in Exhibitions, Science, The Edible Garden on Sep 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
NYBG Student Travels to Asia to Trace Eggplant’s Roots
Rachel Meyer, a doctoral candidate at the Botanical Garden, specializes in the study of the eggplant’s domestication history and the diversity of culinary and health-beneficial qualities among heirloom eggplant varieties. She will hold informal conversations about her work at The Edible Garden’s Café Scientifique on September 13.
The eggplant (Solanum [...]
Posted in Science on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
James S. Miller, Ph.D., is Dean and Vice President for Science.
Scientists have extended the barcode of life to plants, a development that will have far reaching impacts in the years ahead.
Earlier this month, an international consortium of plant scientists achieved a milestone when they published the results of a multi-year analysis selecting two regions of DNA to [...]
Posted in Exhibitions, Science, The Edible Garden on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
John Mitchell is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Systematic Botany at The New York Botanical Garden, where he also chairs the Library Committee. He studies the cashew family (Anacardiaceae) worldwide.
The cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale), a native of Brazil, is the source of cashew nuts and the cashew apple. Wild cashew trees occur in [...]
Posted in Science on Aug 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Garden Scientist Studies “Culturally Keystone Species”
Brian M. Boom, Ph.D., is Director of the Caribbean Biodiversity Program at The New York Botanical Garden.
Add one more item to the long list of threats that indigenous peoples around the world have to their cultural survival: global warming.
In the past, when the climate changed, indigenous groups could usually migrate [...]
