Friday, November 18th
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Workshops
Demystifying the Challenging World of Grasses
Sarah
Chamberlain, Research Associate Riparia, Penn State University
Pennsylvania Juncus: What’s the Rush?
Wes Knapp, Mountain Biologist, North Carolina Natural
Heritage Program
A Review of the Major Taxonomic Sections of Carex
(Cyperaceae) for east-central U.S.
Dwayne Estes, Associate Professor of Biology, Austin Peay
State University
Potamogetonaceae and Hydrocharitaceae of North America
Barre Hellquist, Professor of Biology Emeritus, Massachusetts College of
Liberal Arts
1:30 – 4:30 p.m. Workshops
Pennsylvania’s Willows
Jim Bissell, Curator of Botany and Director of Natural
Areas, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Pteridophyte Identification in Pennsylvania Steve Grund,
Botanist, Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program Western Pennsylvania
Conservancy Bonnie Isaac, Collection Manager, Section of Botany, Carnegie
Museum of Natural History
3:00-5:00 p.m. Vendor setup
5:00 – 8:30 p.m. Friday Evening Social, Poster Session
and Presentation (Dinner on your own) Presentation Chris Martine, Burpee
Professor of Biology, Bucknell University
Saturday, November 19th
8:00 – 9:00 a.m Registration
8:00 – 8:45a.m. Exhibitor setup
8:00 – 9:00 a.m Registration
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Exhibitor Session
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Keynote address
Competing Values of Modern Conservation: Can They Be
Reconciled?
Reed Noss,Provost’s Distinguished Research Professor,
Department of Biology, University of Central Florida
10:00 – 10:40 a.m. Vascular Plant Extinction in North
America North of Mexico; What Have We Lost and What Can We Learn?
Wes Knapp, Mountain Biologist, North Carolina Natural
Heritage Program
10:40 – 11:00 break
11:00 – 11:40 a.m. Thirty Years of Change Within Lake
Erie Wetlands Jim Bissell, Curator of Botany and Director of Natural Areas
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
11:40 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. Nymphaeaceae and Nelumbonaceae:
The Beautiful Plants of the Water World Barre Hellquist, Professor of Biology
Emeritus, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
12:20 – 1:20 p.m. Lunch
1:20 – 2:00 p.m. Native Seed: Strategy vs Serendipity
Peggy Olwell, Plant Conservation Program Lead Bureau of Land Management
2:00 – 2:20 p.m. Break
2:20 – 3:00 p.m. Jefferson’s Botanists: Lewis & Clark
Discover the Plants of the West and Bring Them to Philadelphia Richard McCourt,
Curator and Professor, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
3:00 – 3:40 p.m. Riverscour: The Last Frontier in the
Heavily Botanized Eastern U.S.
Dwayne Estes, Professor of Plant Pathology Department of
Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology Penn State University
3:40 – 4:20 p.m. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,
Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Robin Kimmerer, Distinguished
Teaching Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in
Syracuse, NY
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Norris Z. Muth, Associate Professor of Biology muth@juniata.edu<mailto:muth@juniata.edu>
office: 1054 VonLiebig Center for Science Office Hours
Fall 2016 MWF 9-9:30, MW 11-11:30, or by
appointment
Juniata College
1700 Moore St.
Huntingdon, PA 16652
tel: 814-641-3632
