by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 1, 2007 | News
Montgomery Fellow, Dr. Mónica Moraes R., of the Herbario Nacional de Bolivia at the Institute of Ecology, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, collected morphological data on Montgomery Botanical’s Butiinae palm collections to compare wild with cultivated...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 21, 2007 | Conservation
Dr. Patrick Griffith, Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) executive director, and Dr. Larry Noblick, MBC palm biologist, have returned from their three-week expedition to Trinidad and Tobago. Drs. Griffith and Noblick collected a total of 4,884 seed. Of the 22 species...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 20, 2007 | Events
Deborah A. Clark, Ph.D., research professor for the Department of Biology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, presented the 2007 Gifford Arboretum Lecture Tropical Rain Forests and Global Climate Change: A Fast-changing Science. This Gifford Arboretum Lecture was...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 3, 2007 | Events
Dr. Damon Little, a research associate of The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Program for Molecular Systematic Studies at The New York Botanical Garden, presented a public seminar at Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) on the Evolution and Circumspection of the True...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 23, 2007 | News
Chad Husby, Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) collections manager and botanist, is implementing a handheld, weather-resistant PDA interface system for MBC. Laura Vasquez, MBC field supervisor, has also been instrumental in this effort. The PDA interface system will...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 10, 2007 | Events
This year, the South Florida Palm Society chose Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) as the location for its annual sale. More than 20 vendors offered over 250 species of palms for sale during the weekend event. While at the sale, visitors had the opportunity to tour...
by Theresa Bramblett | Mar 5, 2007 | Newsletter
Spring/Summer 2007 Newsletter Spring/Summer 2007 – Volume 15, Number 1 Read the latest issue of our newsletter here. Montgomery Botanical Center publishes two newsletters a year to keep our supporters and collaborators up to date and informed. If you would like...
by Theresa Bramblett | Feb 8, 2007 | News
Michael Calonje is the new cycad biologist at Montgomery Botanical Center. In addition to broad experience in field botany and plant collecting, Michael has worked for various botanic gardens internationally, in management, collections, horticulture, and plant...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jan 8, 2007 | News
Chad Husby has joined Montgomery Botanical Center as collections manager and botanist. Leading the Collections Development Department at MBC, Chad brings a background in plant exploration, collections management and botanical research to the position. Chad comes...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jan 8, 2007 | News
Annual grounds inventory ensures that each plant in Montgomery Botanical Center’s collection remains solidly associated with its data. Each plant’s label and mapped location work together and provide redundancy for this all-important linkage: inventory...
