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NEBC 120th Anniversary Research Conference

Celebrating Botanical Research!

June 5-7, 2015

Smith College

Northampton, Massachusetts

Poster Presentations

NEBC June 2015 Conference: Poster Titles

* = Presenter

Sarah Bois*

    • “It’s All in the Timing: Answering Short-term Research Questions While Establishing a Long-term Phenology Study”

Tim Boland*

    • “The Conservator – A Modern Flora for Martha’s Vineyard”

Josiah Chow*

    • “Neitzsche was Right – Multiple Cylces of Drought Training Strengtehns Phaseolus vulgaris L. Tolerance to Drought Stress”

Peter Grima*

    • “A new population of Triphora trianthophora (Orchidaceae) in western Massachusetts”

Natasha Krell,* Hilary Rose Dawson, Nishanta Rajakaruna

    • “Are Achillea millefolium and Hypericum perforatum Locally Adapted to Serpentine and Granite Outcrops On Deer Isle, Maine? A Greenhouse Study on Ecotypic Differentiation of Two Common Herbaceous Plants”

Francine Leech,* Caitlin Bauer, Prerana Vaddi, J. Adam Langley, J. Patrick Megonigal, and Thomas J. Mozdzer

    • “Effects of Multiple Interactive Global Change Factors on the Introduced Common Reed, Phragmites australis

Ian Medeiros,* Nishanta Rajakaruna

    • “Research in Progress: Documenting the Serpentine Biota of Massachusetts”

James Mickley,* Matthew Benedict, Genevieve Nuttall, Connor Hill, Darren Vine, Emilia Mason

    • “Do Pollinators Care About Petal Number? Comparing Petal Number Variation in Outcrossing and Selfing Species of Phlox

Chelsea Parise,* Robert I. Bertin

    • “Patterns and Changes in the Nonnative Flora of Worcester County, Massachusetts”

Pamela Polloni,* Donald Schall, Elizabeth Davis

    • “Vascular Plants Observed Since 2006 During Botany Club Investigations at Retired Cranberry Bogs, Coonamessett River, Falmouth, Massachusetts”

Steven Riberdy*

    • “Comparison of Several Re-Location Techniques and Success Rates for Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis) and Birds Foot Violet (Viola pedata) in Nashua, New Hampshire”

Ella M. Samuel,* D. Porter, Nishanta Rajakaruna

    • “Mycoremediation in the Face of Anthropogenic Environmental Damage”

Chris A. Schorn, Ella Weber,* Lian G. Bruno, Rebecca L. Bernardos, Claire M. Hopkins, Chuck C. Davis

    • “The New England Vascular Plants Project: 150,000 Specimens Digitized and Counting”

Timothy Whitfield,* Kathleen M. McCauley, Erika J. Edwards

    • “Digitizing the Brown University Herbarium Collections”

Jenny Yung,* Genevieve Nuttall, Hillary Holt, James Mickley

    • “Bud Development: Comparing Pentamerous to Hexamerous Flowers in Phlox drummondii

Chang-lin Zhao,* Donald H. Pfister

    • “Morphological and Molecular Identification of a New Species of Truncospora (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) in North America”