
“Gardens are Great, Forests are Phenomenal!”
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The Gifford Arboretum Lecture is part of the CETroB lecture series
Former Gifford Arboretum Lecturers (click here)
1984
Richard Howard
Professor emeritus and former Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
1985
Mark Plotkin
Ethnobotanist, Time magazine’s 1999 Hero of the Planet
1986
Bill Theobauld
Director of the National Tropical Botanical Gardens
1992
Richard Howard
Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
1993
Taylor Alexander
Professor of Biology and Creator of Microbiome, University of Miami
1994
Walter Hodges
USDA plant explorer and oversaw NSF awards for Tropical Botany
1995
Christine Padoch
Professor of Ecological Anthropology
Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden
1996
Luis Diego Gomez
Director of Las Cruces Biological Station
and The Robert and Catherine Wilson Botanical Garden
1997
Robin Foster
Professor of Plant Ecology, Field Museum of Natural History
1998
Paul Cox
Director of the National Tropical Botanical Gardens
1999
Meg Lowman
Director of Research and Conservation, Marie Selby Botanical Garden
2000
Peter Ashton
Professor of Forestry
and Faculty Fellow of the Center for International Development, Harvard University
2001
Robin Marantz Henig
Author & Freelance Science Writer
2002
Alvaro Calonje-Daly
Director of Dolmestch Arboretum & Horticulturist, Cali, Colombia
2003
Robin Chazdon
Professor of Ecology, University of Connecticut
2004
Peter M. Vitousek
Clifford G. Morrison Professor in Population and Resource Studies
Department of Biological Sciences and FSI Senior Fellow, Stanford University
2005
Georgia Tasker
Journalist, Miami Herald
2006
Douglas Larson
Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph
2007
Deborah A. Clark
Professor, Department of Biology
University of Missouri St. Louis
2008
Julie S. Denslow
Research Ecologist and Team Leader
Invasive Species Unit Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry
USDA Forest Service
2009
Lúcia Lohmann
Professor, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2010
W. John Kress
Curator and Research Scientist of the Department of Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
2011
Susanne Renner
Professor and Chair of Systematic Botany and Mycology University of Munich, Director of Munich Herbarium, Director of the Munich Botanical Garden