Pennsylvania Botany is pleased to announce there are 32 undergrad and grad students whose research posters have been accepted into this year’s poster session! Review their abstracts in this PDF.

Download a PDF of the Symposium two-day schedule here for printing.

Friday, November 14 FULL DAY WORKSHOPS • 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Botanical Illustration • Room 203 • with Sandra Budd, MFA, MS

A Consulting Botanist’s Toolkit • Room 105 • with PA DCNR and PennDOT staff, and PA Botany Board of Directors Botanists (see all of the instructors on the Symposium Instructors Bios page)

Geology for Botanists • Room 207 • with Noah Yawn, Ecologist, Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program at Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Recognition of the Hawthorns (Crataegus) of Pennsylvania • Room 204 • with Ron Lance

Friday, November 14 AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS • 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Conservation Horticulture for Safeguarding Pennsylvania Rare Plants • Room 108 • with Cheyenne Moore, Pennsylvania Plant Conservation Alliance Coordinator, and Peter Zale, PhD, Director, Conservation Horticulture and Collections, Longwood Gardens

The Hidden World of Lichens • Room 106 • with James Lendemer, PhD, Curator of Botany at the New York State Museum

How to Tackle Teaching Plant Life Cycles • Room 102 • with Emily Sessa, PhD, Patricia K. Holmgren Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden

FRIDAY EVENING SOCIAL • 4:30 –8:00 p.m. President’s Hall 1–2

Appetizers (Cash Bar), Student Poster Session and Silent Auction

6:30–8:00 p.m. Presentation: Lenape Plant Practices: A Holistic Exchange
Shelley DePaul, Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania Clan Mother, Keeper of Language and Treaty Signer Liaison

Saturday, November 15 • 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. President’s Hall 3–4

9:00 – 9:10 a.m. Welcome

9:10 – 10:00 a.m. Keynote Address
For the Love of Plants: Botany in the Afterlives of Colonialism
Banu Subramaniam, PhD, Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College

10:00 – 10:40 a.m.
Understanding Appalachian Forests, Lichens and Ecosystem Health Informs New Perspectives on Biodiversity and Conservation
James Lendemer, PhD, Curator of Botany at the New York State Museum

10:40 – 11:10 a.m. BREAK and Exhibitors in Social Hall Presidents Hall 1-2

11:10 – 11:50 a.m.
The Flora of the Southeastern United States: Reinventing The Flora as a Foundation for Plant Conservation
Scott Ward, Research Botanist at North Carolina Botanical Garden

11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Herbarium Specimens Are More Than Meet the Eye
Mason Heberling, PhD, Associate Curator, Section of Botany
Carnegie Museum of Natural History

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch, Last Auction Bids and Exhibitors in Social Hall Presidents Hall 1-2

1:30 – 2:10 p.m.
The History and Systematics of Hawthorns (Crataegus) in Pennsylvania
Ron Lance, North American Land Trust

2:10 – 2:20 p.m. Student Poster Awards

2:20 – 2:40 p.m. BREAK in Exhibitor Hall with Winning Posters and Auction Results

2:40 – 3:20 p.m. Cool Finds with Roger Latham, PhD, Consultant, Applied Research and Planning for Wildlands Stewardship & Endangered Species Recovery

3:20 – 4:00 p.m.
From Spores to Forests: Climate Change and the Hidden Life of Ferns
Emily Sessa, PhD, Patricia K. Holmgren Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden