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BOTANY BC 2012: July 26-29, 2012 at Manning Park
Author : Botany BC 2012 Organizing committee - Hans Roemer, Judith Holm, Ryan Batten, Mandy Ross and Elizabeth Easton | BEN No. 448 | 31 Jan 2012
Botany BC 2012 will be taking place from Thursday July 26, 2012 through to Sunday July 29, 2012 at Manning Park, British Columbia ....
Johannes Vogel - New Director of the Berlin Museum of Natural History
Author : Announcement | BEN No. 448 | 31 Jan 2012
The Keeper Regius of the Herbarium in the Natural History Museum in London, Dr. Johannes Vogel, has become the new Director General of the Berlin Museum of Natural History. Concurrent with these negotiations, Dr. Vogel was appointed as Sectoral Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. ....
Royal British Columbia Museum Appoints Jack Lohman as New Chief Executive Officer
Author : Announcement | BEN No. 448 | 31 Jan 2012
The Royal BC Museum Board of Directors has named British cultural leader and scholar Jack Lohman as the organization's new Chief Executive Officer. He will assume his new position on March 26, 2012. ....
Taylor Armstrong Steeves (1926 - 2011)
Author : Vipen Sawhney, Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon - originally published in CBA/ABC Bulletin 44(3): 84-85. | BEN No. 447 | 11 January 2012
Professor Emeritus Taylor A. Steeves of the Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan (U of S) passed away on September 6, 2011. Taylor was born on November 29, 1926 in Quincy, Massachusetts. He did his B.Sc. at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and in 1951 received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. ....
The Paradoxical Squamanita, a Mycoparasitic Symbiont
Author : Britt A. Bunyard - Abbreviated for BEN from Fungi 4(5): 28 and 42. 2011 | BEN No. 447 | 11 January 2012
Few mushrooms are more enigmatic than the paradoxical mushroom Squamanita. Comprised of only a few species, all of which are rarely seen, nd all species of Squamanita are parasites of other mushrooms. But it gets weirder still ....
The Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria: Digitizing Herbarium Specimens
Author : Ben Legler | BEN No. 447 | 11 January 2012
The Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria was created in 2007 to bring together regional herbaria and provide an online portal to herbarium specimen data for Pacific Northwest North America. Over 3.6 million specimen records are housed within the region's 57+ herbaria. Included are the U.S. states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Yukon Territory ....
Rudi Becking's Archive In The Humboldt State University Library
Author : Adrienne Harling, Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA | BEN No. 447 | 11 January 2012
The Rudolf W. Becking Collection documents the professional and political work of Dr. Rudi Becking. Rudi was a professor of Forestry and Natural Resources at Humboldt State University from 1960-1983. His research interests included Redwoods, sustainable forestry (Plenterung), plant community ecology (Phytosociology), serpentine endemics, the Marbled Murrelet, timber cruise methodology, and many other topics. He did additional scholarly work in Indonesia, the USSR and in China. . ....
Correction to BEN # 446
Author : Announcement | BEN No. 447 | 11 January 2012
The article "BOTANY BC - TATLAYOKO LAKE - July 14-17, 2011" by Stephen Ruttan was originally published in The Log (the Friends of Ecological Reserves newsletter) Autumn/Winter 2011.
