Upcoming Events
2010 Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture
Dr. David Inouye
University of Maryland
“What is the future of Rocky Mountain wildflowers and their pollinators?”
7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 8, 2010
Shoenberg Auditorium
Ridgway Center
Missouri Botanical Garden
4344 Shaw Boulevard
Event is free and open to the public
David Inouye is Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland, and Associate Director of the graduate program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology. He has done field research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, in Gothic, Colorado since 1971, where he has studied resource partitioning by bumble bees, territoriality in hummingbirds, ant-plant mutualisms, and pollination biology. Most recently he has focused on the effects of the changing climate on the phenology (timing) and abundance of flowering, in plots that he established in 1973 and visits every other day each summer; the National Science Foundation has just funded this work for another five years. Other projects include work on the population biology of individually tagged plants that he has followed since 1973, and how they are being affected by climate change and an increasing frequency of late spring frosts. David is co-author of a book (Techniques for pollination biologists, co-authored with Carol Kearns), enjoys photographing wildflowers and pollinators, and has been a speaker and tour leader for the Crested Butte Wildflower Festival for many summers.
World Ecology Award Gala Dinner
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 6:30 p.m.
The Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center will present its World Ecology Award to Dr. David Western at a gala dinner to be held at the Missouri Botanical Garden. For details call (314) 516-5219.