[BSW] Dec. 7 Slight time change + Other upcoming events + Misc.

[KATHY BILTON]

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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

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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.

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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

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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