Islands: Isolated but not Desolate

Banner photo by John Game

Symposium Speakers and Presentations

• Kevin Alison; Rare Plant Ecologist, Catalina Island Conservancy, Rare Plant Conservation on Catalina Island
• Stephanie Calloway, California Polytechnic State University; Recruitment limitations of the northern island mallow (Malva assurgentiflora subsp. assurgentiflora) on Anacapa Island
• Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin Director, Center for Biological Diversity; Conservation of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems in the Amargosa Basin
• Kristina M. Gill, Archaeobotanist, Archaeologist, and Research Scientist, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon; Island Chumash (Ayetlimuw) Plant Use: Subsistence, Resilience, and Ecosystem Management pre-European Contact on California’s Northern Channel Islands
• Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman, Conservation Geneticist & Lab Manager, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden; Applying contemporary and traditional tools in biodiversity research to understand and conserve the California Channel Islands Flora in the Anthropocene: case studies in Malacothrix, Galium, and Malva
• Julie Lambert, Program Coordinator, Soil Ecology and Restoration Group (SERG), Restoring San Clemente Island’s Most Endangered Plant Species: Lithophragma maximum (Saxifragaceae)
• Mitchell McGlaughlin, Professor, Chair. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado; Patterns of Colonization and divergence in Acmispon (Fabaceae) endemic to the California Channel Islands
• Isaac Lichter Marck; Plant diversification in a California sky island archipelago: the story of the rock daisies (Perityleae; Compositae)
• Luna Mendoza, Directora de Ecología, Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas; Restoration of plant communities on Guadalupe Island, México
• Brian Smithers, GLORIA Great Basin Director; GLORIA Great Basin: monitoring sky island plant communities long-term, and having a great time while doing it
  

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