Gifford Arboretum Lecture Series

The John C. Gifford Arboretum
University of Miami Department of Biology
College of Arts and Sciences

Celebrates the Restoration of the
Gifford Arboretum

and the

Twentieth Gifford Arboretum Lecture
Thursday, March 20, 2008
7:00 pm
James M. Cox, Jr. Science Center, Room 145

opening remarks by
President Donna E. Shalala

 


Julie S. Denslow
Research Ecologist , USDA Forest Service

will speak on
"Weeds in Paradise"

- Guided arboretum tour at 6 pm -

Free admission and parking.

Reception following lecture

The Gifford Arboretum is located on the University of Miami Coral Gables campus near the intersection of San Amaro Drive and Robbia Avenue. For additional information please call 305 284 5364
Cosponsors: Montgomery Botanical Center, the Kampong of the National Tropical Botanical Garden
The Gifford Arboretum Lecture is part of the CETroB lecture series

Past Lecturers

2007 Deborah A. Clark, University of Missouri, St Louis

2006 Douglas Larson, University of Guelph, Department of Botany

2005 Georgia Tasker, Garden Writer of The Miami Herald

2004 Peter Vitousek, Professor of Biology, Stanford University, National Academy of Sciences

2003 Robin Chazdon, Professor of Ecology, University of Connecticut

2002 Alvaro Calonje-Daly, Director of Dolmestch Arboretum & Horticulturist,   Cali, Colombia

2001 Robin Marantz Henig, Author & Freelance Science Writer

2000 Peter Ashton, Professor of Forestry and Faculty Fellow of the Center for International Development, Harvard University

1999 Meg Lowman, Director of Research and Conservation, Marie Selby Botanical Garden

1998 Paul Cox, Director of the National Tropical Botanical Gardens

1997 Robin Foster, Professor of Plant Ecology, Field Museum of Natural History

1996 Luis Diego Gomez, Director of Las Cruces Biological Station and The Robert and Catherine Wilson Botanical Garden

1995 Christine Padoch, Professor of Ecological Anthropology, Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden

1994 Walter Hodges, USDA plant explorer and oversaw NSF awards for Tropical Botany

1993 Taylor Alexander, Professor of Biology and Creator of Microbiome, University of Miami

1992 Richard Howard, Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

1986 Bill Theobauld, Director of the National Tropical Botanical Gardens

1985 Mark Plotkin, Ethnobotanist, Time magazine’s 1999 Hero of the Planet

1984 Richard Howard, Professor emeritus and former Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University