The Garden is hiring on-the-spot at a job fair seeking part-time special events bartenders and special events associates for Garden Lights 2023-24. Each position pays $15 per hour, plus tips. The job fair will be located inside Mershon Hall. Complete an application in advance of the event. Read More
Description of Presentation: This talk is about how we wove and polished the illustrated storybook An Adventure of Wounaan Children and Many Birds with the biocultural team of the Wounaan National Congress and the Foundation for the Development of Wounaan People. Wounaan are an Indigenous people of Panama and Colombia… Read More
This presentation discusses how Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila provides us with an invaluable opportunity to investigate the origins of life and deepen our understanding of Earth’s evolutionary history. Its unique geological features, diverse ecosystem and ancient microbial life make it a captivating location for scientific research. By preserving and studying this… Read More
This presentation underscores the significance of ongoing efforts in Colombia by research botanist Tatiana Arias from Marie Selby Botanical Gardens to safeguard orchid diversity, unravel the mysteries of orchid species-rich groups with high endemism in the northern Andes, and empower communities for conservation through sustainable practices. She uses a combination… Read More
While all organisms modify their environment, humans have transformed the biosphere to the extent that we are living in a new geologic era – the Anthropocene. Collectively our activities are not only changing climates, but we are transforming energy and biogeochemical flows, coopting primary productivity, and changing land and ocean… Read More
The Coastal Plain of the Southeastern United States is among the world’s top biodiversity hotspots of great conservation concern. It houses a large diversity of habitats and plant species, many of which are endemic and occur nowhere else in the world- yet so many of these habitats are largely gone… Read More
As the climate warms, many plants are flowering earlier in the year. This can be beneficial, allowing plants to take advantage of warmer spring temperatures. However, it can also have unintended consequences, potentially changing interactions with pollinators, pests, or risking flower damage from unexpected frosts. Plants in alpine environments, already… Read More
Are you #TeamBTW (Booker T. Washington) or #TeamWEB (W. E. B. Du Bois)? For many key figures of Black garden history, there were two degrees of separation between their careers and these iconic men of America. We will delve into their complicated relationship and discuss their influence on the legends… Read More
The major focus of the chestnut research at UTC is the restoration of Castanea dentata to its former position as a component of the southern Appalachian hardwood forest ecosystem. The return of the American chestnut requires a multidisciplinary effort. Since 1996, the project has been actively engaged in all aspects… Read More
