by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 8, 2011 | Events
Dr. Angelica Cibrian, from the New York Botanical Garden, was hosted at Montgomery in early March as part of the Kelly Research Fellows Program. Angelica offered a public seminar, titled: “The use of living collections to understand plant evolution, from genes across...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 1, 2011 | Newsletter
Spring/Summer 2011 Newsletter Spring/Summer 2011 – Volume 19, Number 1 Read the latest issue of our newsletter here. This new issue has articles about collecting in Colombia, Trinidad, Belize, and Hawaii. It also highlights new infrastructure: the Chris Tyson...
by Theresa Bramblett | Feb 28, 2011 | Grants, Research
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $457,530 grant to a team of scientists from Montgomery Botanical Center, Florida International University, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the New York Botanical Garden...
by Theresa Bramblett | Feb 24, 2011 | Events
Dr. Cristina Lopez-Gallego, Professor at the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, is being hosted at Montgomery as part of the Kelly Research Fellows Program at MBC. Cristina is an expert on the ecology and demographics of Zamia, and is a longtime...
by Theresa Bramblett | Feb 4, 2011 | Events
The National Tropical Botanic Garden at the Kampong awarded the 2011 David Fairchild Medal posthumously to Monty Beekman. Dr. Beekman’s medal was accepted by Faith Foss, Professor Beekman’s widow. Dr. Beekman was professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jan 20, 2011 | Events
Dr. Boglarka Erdei from the Hungarian Natural History Museum presented a lecture at MBC titled, “Fossil Cycads from the Cenozoic of the Northern Hemisphere.” The Hungarian Natural History Museum has 200 employees and a herbarium with 1.5 million herbarium...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jan 13, 2011 | Research
Paleontologist Kevin Aulenback gave a seminar at MBC entitled, “Conifers, Cycadeoids and Palms of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada, with a new interpretation of fossil conifer leaf arrangement.” This presentation focused on the plants of the formation...
by Theresa Bramblett | Dec 29, 2010 | Research
Angela Cano, a first year master’s student from The University of Geneva, working with the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of Geneva, is being hosted at Montgomery to collect DNA and voucher specimens for research on her thesis. She is working on a monographic...
by Theresa Bramblett | Nov 6, 2010 | Events
The Chris Tyson Plant Conservation Building was dedicated today at Montgomery. This is a very important advancement for MBC — providing the greatly needed capacity to house our plant conservation and botanical research work. Mrs. Tyson’s generous gift...
by Theresa Bramblett | Nov 5, 2010 | Research
Belize is home to a rich cycad flora, with five native species in an area the size of New Hampshire. Two of these species, Zamia decumbens and Zamia meermanii, both endemic to Belize, were described by MBC Cycad Biologist Michael Calonje based on extensive fieldwork...
