SCB Symposium


2011 Southern California Botanists Symposium:
Baja ˇAha! Botanical Diversity of the Peninsula

Saturday, October 15th, 2011 9:00am- 5:00pm at the Ruby Gerontology Center on the campus of California State University, Fullerton. (Directions)
Early Registration: $45 by October 1, 2011- $55 at the door. Banquet is $40 (Pre-register because seating is limited!)
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    List of Speakers
  • Pedro Pena Garcillán, PhD.- Ecoregions and Natural History of Baja California
  • Elisabet Whencke, PhD.- Palms, Sierra Libertad
  • Jon P. Rebman, PhD- Undescribed flora of the Baja Peninsula
  • Bart C. O'Brien- The Rare Plants of the California Floristic Province portion of Baja California.
  • Alan B. Harper PhD- Floristics from Erindira to Colonet
  • Xavier López Medellín, PhD- Mangroves of Baja
  • Benjamin T. Wilder- Gulf Islands
  • Thomas Oberbauer- Cedros Island
  • Steve Junak- Guadalupe Island over the years

Banquet

Once again we will have a banquet immediately following the SCB symposium. The banquet will be held at the CSU Fullerton Arboretum October 15, 2011 at 6:00pm. The banquet will follow a mixer and poster session that all symposium attendees are welcome to attend. Exequiel Ezcurra will be speaking on History of Baja Botanists.

Submissions for Poster Session

This year the SCB will have a more structured poster session before the banquet in an effort to encourage networking and to have a venue for members and students to present their work. If you are interested in submitting an abstract for this years poster sesssion please send an e-mail to posters at socalbot dot org with your abstract. Please keep your abstract to a maximum of 300 words. Posters should be no more than 4'x4'. Poster abstracts should be submitted electronically before October 1th 2011.


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