From kathy at fred.net Fri Dec 3 21:28:46 2021 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 22:28:46 -0500 (EST) Subject: [BSW] BSW Holiday Party on Tuesday, 7 December + Dues Message-ID: Our Holiday-at-Home party will be on Tuesday, 7 December, with the doors opening at 5:30pm for socializing. We'll have a botanical quiz or two starting at 6:30 (have a pencil and paper handy) and then Shruti Dube will give her presidential address at 7pm. If you wish, wear your holiday attire and bring a drink and snacks. Pets welcome! Here is the zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89673854692?pwd=ZjlMdmE3ZGFzSzBxTVhsM2d6c0Q4UT09 Title of talk: Some Medicinal Plants of India Flier: http://botsoc.org/dec21.pdf ----------------------------------------------------- Dues for 2022 There are two ways to pay Botanical Society of Washington 2022 Dues ($10 for individual or $15 for two at one address) to the Treasurer. 1) Mail check payable to Botanical Society of Washington to: Paul Peterson, 4520 Cheltenham Dr., Bethesda MD 20814 2) Pay using Venmo: Paul Peterson: @BotSoc-Wash Instructions for those new to Venmo: 1. Set up Venmo app on your phone 2. Link to method of payment, such as a bank account or credit card 3. Select pay 4. Enter @BotSoc-Wash on the Add Recipients line 5. Enter dollar amount, such as $10 or $15 6. Enter Dues on the What's it for line 7. Select Pay and follow instructions, if you have more than one bank listed you are prompted to select one or the other You actually do not need to use Paul's name. All you need is the Venmo name @BotSoc-Wash. If you search Paul Peterson in Venmo you will see the Botanical Society of Washington logo taken from the coffee mug and the Venmo name @BotSoc-Wash. There are no fees if you use your bank account; there is a 3% fee if you use a credit card. * /.\ /..'\ /'.'\ /.''.'\ /.'.'.\ "'""""/'.''.'.\""'"'" ^^^[_]^^^ From kathy at fred.net Mon Dec 6 21:26:56 2021 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 22:26:56 -0500 (EST) Subject: [BSW] Dec. 7 Slight time change + Other upcoming events + Misc. Message-ID: * /.\ /..'\ /'.'\ /.''.'\ /.'.'.\ "'""""/'.''.'.\""'"'" ^^^[_]^^^ There's been a slight time change for the holiday party. The doors will still open at 5:30 but the quiz will get going at 6:15 (instead of 6:30.) For the quizzes, there will be a spreadsheet onto which you can enter your scores for the quizzes. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xh2IMr8toOAV_9XxuhjrEiwzqXuhZwzATxtdIbuxC3Y/edit?usp=sharing (If you are unable to keep a spreadsheet window open on your desktop alongside the Zoom window, you can just report your score in the chat box.) Robin Everly (EverlyR at si.edu) will send out prizes to those with the top three scores. (Winners can email a mailing address to her.) Our Holiday-at-Home December party will be on Tuesday, 7 December with the doors opening at 5:30pm for socializing. We'll have a botanical quiz or two starting at 6:15 (have a pencil and paper handy) and then Shruti Dube will give her presidential address at 7pm. If you wish, wear your holiday attire and bring a drink and snacks. Pets welcome! Here is the zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89673854692?pwd=ZjlMdmE3ZGFzSzBxTVhsM2d6c0Q4UT09 Title of talk: Some Medicinal Plants of India Flier: http://botsoc.org/dec21.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------- New officers will take over at the end of the meeting. Marcos Caraballo will become the president and Gabriel Johnson will assume the vice-presidency. --------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, December 9 - 7pm EST - ?Native Plants, Phytoremediation & Green Infrastructure: How Native Plants Can Be Used to Improve Environmental Quality? https://wildones.org/phytoremediation-with-eric-fuselier/ Sunday, December 19 - 11am - 4pm - Winter Solstice Field Trip & Hooley https://mdflora.org/event-4593553 Tuesday, December 21 -7-9pm - Register at link below Endangered Pine Barrens Communities of the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD https://mdflora.org/event-4590315 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Importance of Forests in Bumble Bee Biology and Conservation https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/71/12/1234/6427255? My Garden of a Thousand Bees https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-garden-thousand-bees-about/26263/ Get Lake O Level Right, or Risk Killing Cleansing Plants https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/2021/11/15/setting-lake-okeechobees-level-deep-would-kill-plants-clean/6391875001/ Earth Sangha November Newsletter https://460349b9-991b-409a-8d48-c1eb8a442344.filesusr.com/ugd/102a93_4f5e4ebae7034507b6389ef8406df506.pdf Native biodiversity increases with rising plant invasions in temperate, freshwater wetlands https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11273-021-09842-4 Efforts to Restore Native Wild Rice in the St. Louis River Estuary https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/efforts-restore-native-wild-rice-st-louis-river-estuary Germination of seeds from herbarium specimens as a lastconservation resort for resurrecting extinct or criticallyendangered Hawaiian plants https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/csp2.576 The impact of habitat loss on pollination services for a threatened dune endemic plant (Open Access) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-021-05070-y? First Report of Beech Leaf Disease, Caused by Litylenchus crenatae mccannii, on American Beech (Fagus grandifolia) in Virginia (Open Access) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34668402/ An Overview of Triadica sebifera (Chinese Tallowtree) in the Southern United States, Emphasizing Pollinator Impacts and Classical Biological Control https://bioone.org/journals/southeastern-naturalist/volume-20/issue-4/058.020.0403/An-Overview-of-Triadica-sebifera-Chinese-Tallowtree-in-the-Southern/10.1656/058.020.0403.full From kathy at fred.net Tue Dec 7 16:15:05 2021 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 17:15:05 -0500 (EST) Subject: [BSW] Reminder: Holiday Party Doors Open at 5:30, Quiz at 6:15, Shruti's talk at 7 Message-ID: Our Holiday-at-Home December party will be on Tuesday, 7 December with the doors opening at 5:30pm for socializing. We'll have a botanical quiz or two starting at 6:15 (have a pencil and paper handy) and then Shruti Dube will give her presidential address at 7pm. If you wish, wear your holiday attire and bring a drink and snacks. Pets welcome! For the quizzes, there will be a spreadsheet onto which you can enter your scores for the quizzes. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xh2IMr8toOAV_9XxuhjrEiwzqXuhZwzATxtdIbuxC3Y/edit?usp=sharing (If you are unable to keep a spreadsheet window open on your desktop alongside the Zoom window, you can just report your score in the chat box.) Robin Everly (EverlyR at si.edu) will send out prizes to those with the top three scores. (Winners can email a mailing address to her.) She has photographed them and will show you what's available sometime during the Zoom. Here is the zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89673854692?pwd=ZjlMdmE3ZGFzSzBxTVhsM2d6c0Q4UT09 Title of talk: Some Medicinal Plants of India From kathy at fred.net Sat Dec 11 10:58:13 2021 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 11:58:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: [BSW] Dec. 19 field trip and ride info + Upcoming speakers + Misc. Message-ID: Upcoming field trip co-sponsored by the Maryland Native Plant Society, Potowmack Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society, Botanical Society of Washington, and Mattawoman Watershed Society Sunday, December 19 - 11am - 4pm - Winter Solstice Field Trip & Hooley https://mdflora.org/event-4593553 It seems I have been designated as the coordinator of carpooling. :-) At this point in time, I have one person who needs a ride from the Clarendon area and another person who is offering a ride to two people, leaving from the Cleveland Park area at 9:45 a.m. In addition, someone in Takoma Park is offering a ride for 3 people. If you wish to take up on one of the ride offers or can give a ride, please let me know. kathy at fred.net --------------------------------------- Some upcoming speakers and topics: January 4th: John Kress ??Coevolution in the Anthropocene: The Complexity of Nature in a Rapidly Changing World.? February 1st: March 1st: Doug Ripley - "Exploring the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans: Views of the Flora, Fauna, and Geology of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Island, and the Antarctic Peninsula" ------------------------------------------------------ Michael Pollan On Plants That Change Our Minds, From Tea To Peyote https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/michael-pollan-book-excerpt/ City Trees are Turning Green Early, Prompting Warnings about Food and Pollination https://www.npr.org/2021/11/30/1059375777/city-trees-are-turning-green-early-prompting-warnings-for-food-and-pollination He Spent Almost 50 Years Alone at 10,000 feet. His Hobby Helped Shape Climate Research in the Rockies. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/he-spent-almost-50-years-alone-at-10000-feet-his-hobby-helped-shape-climate-research-in-the-rockies/ ------------------------------------------------------ Dues for 2022 There are two ways to pay Botanical Society of Washington 2022 Dues ($10 for individual or $15 for two at one address) to the Treasurer. 1) Mail check payable to Botanical Society of Washington to: Paul Peterson, 4520 Cheltenham Dr., Bethesda MD 20814 2) Pay using Venmo: Paul Peterson: @BotSoc-Wash Instructions for those new to Venmo: 1. Set up Venmo app on your phone 2. Link to method of payment, such as a bank account or credit card 3. Select pay 4. Enter @BotSoc-Wash on the Add Recipients line 5. Enter dollar amount, such as $10 or $15 6. Enter Dues on the What's it for line 7. Select Pay and follow instructions, if you have more than one bank listed you are prompted to select one or the other You actually do not need to use Paul's name. All you need is the Venmo name @BotSoc-Wash. If you search Paul Peterson in Venmo you will see the Botanical Society of Washington logo taken from the coffee mug and the Venmo name @BotSoc-Wash. There are no fees if you use your bank account; there is a 3% fee if you use a credit card. From kathy at fred.net Wed Dec 29 18:39:45 2021 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 19:39:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: [BSW] January 4 - Coevolution in the Anthropocene: The Complexity of Nature in a Rapidly Changing World Message-ID: ????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????? ? ????????????????????????????? Our first meeting of 2022 is coming up next Tuesday, January 4 at 7pm. John Kress will be speaking on the topic: ?Coevolution in the Anthropocene: The Complexity of Nature in a Rapidly Changing World? A flier can be found here: http://botsoc.org/jan22.pdf W. John Kress, Ph.D. Co-Chair, Earth BioGenome Project, https://www.earthbiogenome.org/ Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College and The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Distinguished Scientist and Curator Emeritus, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88102221525?pwd=WFlKcUgydlF0dzM1SS9LZWxnTlo3dz09 --------------------------------------------------------- Holiday Trains Return to the U.S. Botanic Garden https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/holiday-trains-return-to-the-us-botanic-garden/2021/11/24/f7fcd86e-496e-11ec-b05d-3cb9d96eb495_story.html --------------------------------------------------------- Dues for 2022 There are two ways to pay Botanical Society of Washington 2022 Dues ($10 for individual or $15 for two at one address) to the Treasurer. 1) Mail check payable to Botanical Society of Washington to: Paul Peterson, 4520 Cheltenham Dr., Bethesda MD 20814 2) Pay using Venmo: Paul Peterson: @BotSoc-Wash Instructions for those new to Venmo: 1. Set up Venmo app on your phone 2. Link to method of payment, such as a bank account or credit card 3. Select pay 4. Enter @BotSoc-Wash on the Add Recipients line 5. Enter dollar amount, such as $10 or $15 6. Enter Dues on the What's it for line 7. Select Pay and follow instructions, if you have more than one bank listed you are prompted to select one or the other You actually do not need to use Paul's name. All you need is the Venmo name @BotSoc-Wash. If you search Paul Peterson in Venmo you will see the Botanical Society of Washington logo taken from the coffee mug and the Venmo name @BotSoc-Wash. There are no fees if you use your bank account; there is a 3% fee if you use a credit card.