About the Speaker: Douglas C. Daly
Douglas C. Daly, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute of Systematic Botany and B.A. Krukoff Curator of Amazonian Botany at The New York Botanical Garden.
A specialist in the systematics of the Burseraceae (Frankincense and Myrrh family), he has led or co-led more than 100 botanical expeditions in the tropics. His roots in western Ireland, experiences in the Andes, and interests in the impacts of plants and fungi on human history led to a long-running curiosity about the Irish Potato Famine, also known as The Great Hunger, which began in 1845.