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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


Lab Hosts Forest Soils Conference
My lab hosted the 37th Annual Central States Forest Soils Workshop at Sewanee this past week (Oct 10-11). Disciplines attending the...
Oct 15, 2017


Vernal Pools Pub Featured in NPR Interview
The local National Public Radio station interviewed me last week for a story about our vernal pools research. The research, recently...
Oct 7, 2017


Vernal Pools Paper Published!
For the past fifteen years, I have been involved in an effort to promote the ecological significance of vernal pools on the Cumberland...
Sep 5, 2017


New Grant Supports Post-Bac Program
I am excited to announce my lab has been awarded a major grant from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation to fund our ongoing...
Aug 24, 2017


Botanical Gardens of Europe
I got to visit three botanical gardens this summer when I was in Europe: Berlin Botanical Garden, Oxford University Botanical Garden,...
Jul 7, 2017