EcoFlora Virtual Seminar Series
Meetings are held virtually, and are free and open to the public. Each month features a speaker on a topic related to urban biodiversity or that month’s EcoQuest.
Recordings of previous meetings can be found here and here.
For more information, and to get on our mailing list, send us an email at ecoflora@nybg.org
Previous Lectures
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December – Natural Areas Management in Central Park
Alex Hodges, Assistant Manager of Natural Areas, Central Park Conservancy -
January – NYC Lichens: an Urban Experience
Dr. James Lendemer, Assistant Curator, NYBGFebruary – The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice
Dr. Melissa Checker, Professor of Urban Studies, Queens CollegeMarch – Bryophytes of New York City
Zihao Wang, NYC ParksApril – Japanese Flowering Cherries: A 100 Year-Long Love Affair
Tony Aiello, Director of Horticulture, Morris ArboretumMay – The Genus Veronica (Speedwells) – In 15 Million Years to New York
Dr. Dirk Albach, Professor, Carl vos Ossietzky Universitat, OldenburgJune – Ferns of New York City
Dr. Robbin Moran, Curator Emeritus, NYBGJuly – Wild Lettuce (Lactuca sp.) of New York City
Lydia Paradiso, PhD Student, NYBGAugust – no meeting
September – the Nature of Oaks
Dr. Doug Tallamy, University of DelawareOctober – Domestication, Nutrition, and Ethnobotany of Eggplants and Other Nightshades
Dr. Rachel Meyer, UC Santa CruzNovember – Pollution Research on the Bronx River
Christian Murphy, Bronx River AllianceDecember – Seeing the Forest for the Snow: Connecting the Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Across Seasons
Dr. Andy Reinmann, CUNY ASRC -
January – Winter Botany: Bark, Buds, and Berries
Nancy Slowik, NYBG Adult EducationFebruary – Population genetic structure of eastern North American birches
Dr. Ashley Thomson, Lakehead UniversityMarch – Urban biodiversity: Conservation and restoration in complex social-ecological systems
Dr. Lea Johnson, Longwood GardensApril – Urban Soils of NYC
Dr. Zhongqi Cheng, Brooklyn CollegeMay – the State of the Urban Forest in NYC
Emily Nobel Maxwell and Dr. Mike Treglia, the Nature ConservancyJune – Wetlands and the City
Dr. Monica Palta, Pace UniversityJuly – Plant Biodiversity at Liberty State Park
Dr. Allyson SalisburyAugust – Punching Above their Weight: the role of small green spaces for biodiversity in cities
Dr. Kevin Vega, ETH Zurich, SwitzerlandSeptember – Ants and the City: influence of urbanization on arthropods using ants as bioindicators
Dr. Gema Trigos-Peral, Museum and Institute of Zoology, Warsaw, PolandSeptember – Urban Warming Shapes Insect Communities on Street Trees
Dr. Emily Meineke, North Carolina State UniversityOctober – The Value of Vacant Land for Urban Bees
Dr. Mary Gardiner, the Ohio State UniversityNovember – Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Green Roof Ecosystems
Dr. Jason AloisioNovember – A Two-Way Street: Eco-evolutionary dynamics of Common Milkweed in urban environments
Sophie Breitbart, University of TorontoDecember – no meeting
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January – Gathering Plants and Mushrooms in Local Parks and Forests: A practice that supports cultural identity, connection with nature, and stewardship
Dr. Tatiana MarquinaJanuary – Reading the Landscape: Detecting uses, values, and meanings of parkland through social assessment
Dr. Lindsay Campbell, Research Social Scientist, USFS NYC Urban Field StationFebruary – Mapping the Purple Menace: Spatiotemporal distribution of Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) along roadsides in northern New York state
Dr. Jessica Rogers, SUNY PotsdamMarch – Urban Genetic Pools: Reservoirs of adaptive potential and the seed collectors who are after it
Heather Liljengren, Supervising Seed Collector, NYC Parks Greenbelt Native Plant Center