From kathy at fred.net Thu May 17 09:21:23 2018 From: kathy at fred.net (Kathy Bilton) Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 10:21:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [BSW] Next meeting - Botanical Symposium - Lunchtime talks Message-ID: Next BSW meeting: Tuesday, June 5 at 7PM Speaker: Peter Schafran - http://www.peterwschafran.com/ Topic: TBA --------------------------------------------------------- The latest Plant Press http://nmnh.typepad.com/files/vol21no2.pdf --------------------------------------------------------- Friday, May 18 - 16th Smithsonian Botanical Symposium - (Free) "Plants in the Past: Fossils and the Future" http://botany.si.edu/sbs/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Thursdays 12:15-12:45 p.m. | May through September | East Walk of the Smithsonian?s Enid A. Haupt Garden Turn your thumb green! Join Smithsonian Gardens? horticulturists for a series of free lunchtime talks and demonstrations on gardening basics. http://gardens.si.edu/whats-happening/lets-talk-gardens.html --------------------------------------------------------- Botany news https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/plants_animals/botany/ ---------------------------------------------------------- UM study: Losing the world?s largest trees would degrade forests and carbon capture https://www.missoulacurrent.com/outdoors/2018/05/um-study-trees-forests/ ----------------------------------------------------------- Imagine a city lit by glowing trees instead of streetlights https://www.fastcompany.com/40571215/imagine-a-city-lit-by-glowing-trees-instead-of-streetlights From kathy at fred.net Mon May 28 11:24:34 2018 From: kathy at fred.net (Kathy Bilton) Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 12:24:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [BSW] Next meeting + Someone is looking for a speaker Message-ID: The last BSW mmeeting before September is coming up on Tuesday, June 5 at 7 pm. The speaker will be Peter Schafran and his topic will be "Botanizing in hostile territory: field work in Iraq and the US Deep South" Flier for posting: http://botsoc.org/june18.pdf Pre-meeting dinner: 5:30 P.M. at the Elephant & Castle Pub and Restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington. Phone 202-347-7707. The restaurant is diagonally across from the Old Post Office Pavilion at 12th and Pennsylvania, a few blocks from the Museum, with Federal Triangle the nearest Metro station, and Metro Center also nearby. Location: VZ Conference Room (WG 33) Ground Floor of the West Wing, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th St. and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC. Please email Erika Gardner at the address gardnere at si.edu to arrange for a pass to get to the meeting room if you don't have a Smithsonian ID. ---------------------------------------------------------- Received from Jil via the MNPS: Peter Schmidt writes: I am a former Chronicle of Higher Education reporter and editor and the founder of Profs and Pints, an innovative new DC-based company that brings college faculty members into bars, cafes, and other venues to give paid lectures or workshops. You can read more about my company at its Web site at http://www.profsandpints.com. I am looking for someone to give a family-friendly, nature-focused talk in early or mid July at La Pop cultural salon, a DC bar and coffee shop attached to and served by the Lapis Afghan restaurant in Adams Morgan. Given that we will be at the height of DC's growing season, I am thinking it would be ideal to stage a talk in the field of botany, dealing with local trees, or local flowers, or local edible or medicinal plants. The venue holds up to 100 people and I am paying speakers there 60 percent of revenue derived from tickets that are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. When dealing with speakers who are government employees or otherwise ethically precluded from taking payments, I hand them a check for their share of revenues made out to the nonprofit of their choice. I would very much appreciate it if you could suggest a few names and/or forward this email on to anyone who might be interested. My chief requirements of presenters are that they have taught at a college, are good public speakers who can engage a general audience, and can come up with talk that is marketable and accessible to people outside their field. You are welcome to call me at 202 342-9107 during regular business hours if you have any questions. Regards, Peter Schmidt Founder and CEO Profs and Pints And a clarification from another email: To clarify, I require that my speakers have taught on a college faculty, but am making allowances for those who hold less than a PhD. I am mainly seeking, for branding and quality-control purposes, to ensure that they are able to speak to a crowd in an engaging manner. Their teaching stints can be in the past, or their terminal degree less than a PhD, so long as they remain focused on their field. Some of my recent speakers have been prominent entomologists with less than a PhD who speak at colleges mainly as guest lecturers, or teach courses for the USDA grad program.