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Today 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 18, 2018


Bamboo Research Presented at Clonal Plant Conference
This summer, I attended the 12th Clonal Plant Symposium that was held in Brunswick ME on the Bowdoin Campus (July 29-Aug. 2). This...
Sep 5, 2018


WSJ 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...
Aug 15, 2018


Shelby wraps up OSGF Fellowship
In 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...
Jul 25, 2018


Students Present Sapelo Island Research
Students in my Coastal Ecology course presented preliminary results from the dune succession research project that we initiated on Sapelo...
May 1, 2018


Callie 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...
Apr 3, 2018


Shelby Meckstroth Presents Paper on Hydrocotyle Research at ASB Mtg
Shelby Meckstroth presented our paper: "The amelioration of grazing and burial through physiological integration by a clonal dune plant"...
Mar 31, 2018


Botanical Notes from Dr Evans’ Coastal Ecology Program on Sapelo Island
This Spring Break, we trekked to Sapelo Island, Georgia with Dr. Evans for an intensive, week long course entitled Coastal Ecology and...
Mar 20, 2018


Evans To Give Seminar on Belize Deforestation at Borders Symposium
Professor Evans will talk about rainforest loss in the Chiquibul Forest region of Belize at Sewanee's Third Annual Interdisciplinary...
Feb 28, 2018


Seminar by Dr. Leighton Reid on Tropical Forest Restoration
Lab alum, Dr. Leighton Reid (C'06) was in town this week to give a Biology Department seminar on his restoration ecology work in Costa...
Jan 25, 2018


Trifolium calcaricum (Running Glade Clover) Conservation
At the Cedars of Lebanon State Park, I met Andrea Bishop, a botanist from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, and...
Dec 5, 2017


Evans Invited Speaker at Wetlands Workshop
Biology Professor Jon Evans gave an invited presentation at the 2017 Regional Wetlands/Section 401 Workshop: Ecological Endpoints: from...
Nov 21, 2017


Plant Conservation Work in Tennessee
During the month of October, as part of my post-baccalaureate fellowship funded by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, I have been involved...
Nov 10, 2017


Dr. Evans to Present King Farm Research at Herbarium Event
Join Jon Evans at 7 PM Wednesday, November 8, for a talk that will trace the complex natural and cultural history of a 30-acre tract...
Nov 2, 2017


Sewanee Herbarium Collection Scanned!
All 9000 plant specimens in the Sewanee Herbarium were scanned this past weekend by a crew from University of Tennessee - Chattanooga...
Oct 15, 2017




