Nov 10, 2018Field Sampling Completed for Hill Cane ProjectLilllian Fulgham C'21, Angus Pritchard C'22 and George Burruss C'22 assisted with the final field season of the hill cane demography...
Oct 15, 2018Sarah Neumann and Students Join Research at Sinking PondDr. Sarah McCarthy Neumann (C'99) returned to Sinking Pond this week with three of her students from Alma College to collaborate with us...
Sep 19, 2018Today is World Bamboo Day!In our lab, we study populations of hill cane (Arundinaria appalachiana), a species of bamboo endemic to the Southern Appalachian...
Sep 5, 2018Bamboo Research Presented at Clonal Plant ConferenceThis summer, I attended the 12th Clonal Plant Symposium that was held in Brunswick ME on the Bowdoin Campus (July 29-Aug. 2). This...
Aug 15, 2018WSJ Article: America Needs More Botanists!"The U.S. is running short of people who can tell the forest from the trees." Recent article in the Wall Street Journal chronicles...
Jul 25, 2018Shelby wraps up OSGF FellowshipIn the latest issue of the Plant Press, Shelby reviews her work as a Herbarium Fellow this past year. Shelby was funded by a grant from...
May 1, 2018Students Present Sapelo Island ResearchStudents in my Coastal Ecology course presented preliminary results from the dune succession research project that we initiated on Sapelo...
Apr 3, 2018Callie Oldfield Awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship!Callie Oldfield, lab graduate fellow and current PhD student in Botany Dept at the University of Georgia has been awarded a NSF Graduate...
Mar 31, 2018Shelby Meckstroth Presents Paper on Hydrocotyle Research at ASB MtgShelby Meckstroth presented our paper: "The amelioration of grazing and burial through physiological integration by a clonal dune plant"...
Mar 20, 2018Botanical Notes from Dr Evans’ Coastal Ecology Program on Sapelo IslandThis Spring Break, we trekked to Sapelo Island, Georgia with Dr. Evans for an intensive, week long course entitled Coastal Ecology and...
Feb 28, 2018Evans To Give Seminar on Belize Deforestation at Borders SymposiumProfessor Evans will talk about rainforest loss in the Chiquibul Forest region of Belize at Sewanee's Third Annual Interdisciplinary...
Jan 25, 2018Seminar by Dr. Leighton Reid on Tropical Forest RestorationLab alum, Dr. Leighton Reid (C'06) was in town this week to give a Biology Department seminar on his restoration ecology work in Costa...
Dec 5, 2017Trifolium calcaricum (Running Glade Clover) ConservationAt the Cedars of Lebanon State Park, I met Andrea Bishop, a botanist from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, and...
Nov 21, 2017Evans Invited Speaker at Wetlands WorkshopBiology Professor Jon Evans gave an invited presentation at the 2017 Regional Wetlands/Section 401 Workshop: Ecological Endpoints: from...
Nov 10, 2017Plant Conservation Work in TennesseeDuring the month of October, as part of my post-baccalaureate fellowship funded by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, I have been involved...