Symposia

Southern California Botanists 49th Annual SCB Symposium

I’ll Take My Plants Rare

Saturday October 21, 2023. Pomona College, Seaver Auditorium. Seaver North, 645 N College Ave Claremont, CA 91711

Registration: Early online registration is closed. You can register at the door: $95 (general admission, includes membership) and $45 (student rate, does not include membership, please bring proof of student status). Mixer: FREE, Dinner ticket $18.00. Dinner tickets are still available, please purchase them at the symposium. Food service by Just Vegana.

Parking: Parking is free. Seaver North Auditorium is located on North College Avenue between 6th and 7th streets. Please use street parking on N. College, 6th or 7th.

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8:00-9:00 am. Registration  

9:15-9:55 am. The CNPS Rare Plant Inventory: Improvements in how we navigate, nominate, and review the conservation status of California rare plants; Aaron Sims, Rare Plant Program Director, California Native Plant Society.

9:55-10:20 am. (Virtual) Genomic diversity of the narrow endemic and endangered legume Astragalus tricarinatus; Lorena Torres-Martinez, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside.

10:20-10:50 am. BREAK

10:50-11:30 am. San Diego County’s Regional Rare Plant Monitoring Program – Lessons Learned from a Decade of Monitoring; Jessie Vinje, SageVinje Biological & Conservation Biology Institute, Escondido, CA.

11:30-11:55 am. How Rare Plants are Listed under The Endangered Species Act; Vivian Negron Ortiz, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Florida Ecological Services Field Office, Panama City, Florida.

11:55 am-1:30 pm. LUNCH

12:10-1:00 pm. CAREER PANEL

1:30-1:55 pm. California Plant Rescue: Securing the Flora of the Golden State through sustained Conservation Collaboration; Katie Heineman, Vice President of Science and Conservation, Center for Plant Conservation.

1:55-2:35 pm. The race against plant extinction; Wesley Knapp, Chief Botanist, NatureServe.

2:35-3:00 pm. Group delisting of rare plants on San Clemente Island: A success story; Sula Vanderplank, 

3:00-3:30 pm. BREAK

3:30-4:00 pm. Evaluating the potential of genetic rescue using genomics for rare species conservation; Jill Hamilton, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, State College, PA. 

4:00-4:25 pm. Rarity, geography, and plant exposure in California; Brooke Rose, Postdoctoral Scholar at San Diego State University 

4:25-4:50 pm. Carpe Diem: CESA the Day! Raffica La Rosa, Senior Environmental Scientist (Specialist), California Department of Fish & Wildlife

Evening events continue at Memorial Park

Location: 840 N Indian Hill Blvd, Claremont, CA 91711    

5:00-8:00 pm Mixer at Memorial Park, open to everyone  

5:30-6:30 pm Poster Session, Seaver South Auditorium 

6:30-8:00 pm Dinner Service: Justvegana Catering ($18 meal ticket required)

Canbya candida (pygmy poppy)

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