About this Event
Southern California Botanist's 51st Annual Symposium Birds, Bees, Flies, and Seeds will focus on key mechanisms of plant reproduction: pollination biology and seed dispersal. Presentations will be split between to the two topics. We have an amazing lineup of speakers, ranging from some local folks doing amazing local things to nationwide experts pushing the fore front of pollinator and seed dispersal research. After the presentations, we will head over to California Botanic Garden for our poster session, mixer, reception catered by Just Vegana Taqueria, aaaand a performance from Southern California’s very own plant-based punk rock band, Sage Against the Machine! As always, the poster session and mixer are free to all symposium registrants, but if you would like to attend the reception and the show, you must purchase a reception ticket.
Lastly, as part of our ongoing commitment to increase accessibility and participation for diverse communities at SCB sponsored events (see SCB’s Diversity and Inclusion Statement) and in recognition of turbulent times in the federal sector, we are happy to offer a limited number of financial hardship awards to this year’s symposium. If you would like to attend this year’s symposium, but the cost is a barrier to your participation, please submit a Statement of Need (150-word limit) to [email protected] by 11:59pm September 21. We will let you know if you have been awarded by September 28.
Hope to see y'all there!
Agenda
🕑: 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Registration
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:15 AM
Annual SCB Business Meeting and Opening Remarks
🕑: 09:15 AM - 09:40 AM
Sarah Cusser, Ph.D., Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Info: Pollinator Shifts and Invasive Species: Implications for the Reproductive Ecology of the Endangered Chloropyron maritimum subsp. maritimum
🕑: 09:40 AM - 10:05 AM
Sam Droege, USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center
Info: USGS Bee Laboratory
🕑: 10:05 AM - 10:40 AM
BREAK
Info: Be back by 10:35 to participate in the Plant Pronunciation survey
🕑: 10:40 AM - 11:05 AM
Dwight Whitaker, Ph.D., Pomona College
Info: How Plants Fly
🕑: 11:05 AM - 11:50 PM
Joshua Kohn, Ph.D., University of California San Diego
Info: Effects of super-abundant non-native honey bees on plants and pollinators in a biodiversity hotspot
🕑: 11:50 AM - 01:30 PM
LUNCH
Info: Be back by 1:25 to participate in the Plant Pronunciation survey
🕑: 01:30 PM - 01:55 PM
Michael Viramontes, Rivers and Lands Conservancy
Info: The Underdog(/fly) of the I.E.
🕑: 01:55 PM - 02:20 PM
James Sobel, Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY)
Info: Seed dispersal in the limestone endemic monkeyflowers
🕑: 02:20 PM - 02:45 PM
Julie Simonsen, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Info: Ecology and Conservation of the El Segundo Blue Butterfly
🕑: 02:45 PM - 03:20 PM
BREAK
Info: Be back by 3:15 to participate in the Plant Pronunciation survey
🕑: 03:20 PM - 03:45 PM
Tom Parker, Ph.D., San Francisco State University
Info: Scatter-hoarding rodents, Arctostaphylos, dispersal dynamics, and the path to evolutionary innovation
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM
Krystle Hickman, National Geographic Explorer and Community Scientist
Info: The ABCs of California Native Bees
🕑: 04:30 PM - 04:40 PM
Closing Remarks
🕑: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Poster Session
Info: Poster Session, CalBG, Sycamore Room
🕑: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Mixer at California Botanic Gardens
Info: Mixer at CalBG, open to everyone
🕑: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Reception at California Botanic Gardens (Ticket required)
Info: 6:30-8:00 - Dinner catered by Just Vegana tacos (vegan); 7:30-8:30 - Sage Against the Machine
🕑: 07:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Sage Against the Machine (Ticket required)
Info: Southern California's very own plant-based punk rock band! (Must purchase symposium and reception tickets)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pomona College—Seaver Auditorium Seaver North,, 645 N College Ave, Claremont, United States
USD 28.52 to USD 87.21
