San Diego Botanical Society
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First (Inaugural!) Meeting:
Friday October 19, 2018
Gold Auditorium (Donald P. Shiley Bioscience Center), San Diego State University
(SDSU Campus Map; Google Maps)
Parking: The San Diego trolley (green line) comes right to the south part of the SDSU campus. Free parking will be available on Levels 7 & 8 of Parking Structure 12 at SDSU (map). From I-5, take College Ave. south, turn right at the first light onto Canyon Crest Drive (which loops west, then south, then east); at the stop sign turn right; Parking Structure 12 is ahead on the right, just past the soccer field. Now, remember to go up to the 7th or 8th level. There is a bridge from both the 8th level and the 4th level (for the latter, take northeast stairs or elevator down). Please map it, and if you are new to campus, map the venue. The Bioscience Center is an annex of Life Science North, and can be accessed from Avenue of the Arts. Here's another map to guide you.
Agenda:
2:00-2:30 PM Arrival; food and drink provided
2:30-3:30 PM Introduction; purpose of society; participant meet and greet.
3:30-4:30 PM Talks on San Diego botany (short, ca. 6 minute presentations)
Lluvia Flores-Rentería, San Diego State University
A Tale of Cactus, Pines, and Other Plants with a Binational Distribution
Josh Kohn, University of California San Diego
Honey bees dominate dominant plants
Joyce Machinski, Center for Plant Conservation
CPC Best Plant Conservation Practices to Support Species Survival in the Wild
Michael Mayer, University of San Diego
The Cholla's Cactus Cousins: A Surprising Family Tree
Margie Mulligan, San Diego Natural History Museum
Chloropyron maritimum ssp. maritimum: Variation in Morphology Across its Range
Elizabeth R. Milano, Western Ecological Research Center, U.S.G.S.
From Salt-Marshes to Mountains: Population Genomic Surveys of Six Rare Plant Species in San Diego County
Jon Rebman, San Diego Natural History Museum
The Flora of Imperial County, CA
Michael Simpson, San Diego State University
Assessing Biodiversity of the Popcorn Flowers: Three Cryptic Taxa of Genus Cryptantha in the Californias
Sula Vanderplank, San Diego State University & San Diego Natural History Museum
The Border Bioblitz
4:30-4:55 PM General Questions; plans for the future (spring meeting, San Diego Natural History Museum? Date?)
4:55 PM Open invitation to meet at Eureka (Happy Hour until 6 pm; map), an easy 5 minute walk, just south of campus
