Links

Research Programs

Conservation and Land Management Internship Program

Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Conservation

Chicago Botanic Garden - Research

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut

Seeds of Success Program

Outreach

Science First - Chicago Botanic Garden

College First - Chicago Botanic Garden

Planting Science

Project Exploration

Plants Are Cool, Too!!
Episode 1 - The Pale Pitcher Plant
Episode 2 - Fossilized Forests!

Identify that tree!

People

Greg Anderson
Systematics, biosystematics, and evolution of vascular plants. Pollination and Reproductive Biology. Tropical Solanaceae, Economic Botany, Conservation Botany.
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Trina Bayard
Salt Marsh Sparrow Behavior and Conservation

Jeremie Fant
Conservation & Restoration Genetics, Plant Reproductive Biology
Chicago Botanic Garden

Kayri Havens
Medard and Elizabeth Welch Director, Plant Science and Conservation
Chicago Botanic Garden

Patrick Herendeen
Evolutionary history of flowering plants
Chicago Botanic Garden

Shane Heschel
Plant ecophysiology, stress tolerance
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

Kent Holsinger
Plant reproductive biology and evolution, population genetics, conservation biology
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Andrea Kramer
Executive Director, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, United States
www.bgci.org/usa/index/

Sylvia "Tass" Kelso
Plant Systematics & Evolution, Primulaceae, CO Flora
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

Dan Larkin
Restoration Ecology, Invasive Species, Community Ecology, Wetland Ecology
Chicago Botanic Garden

Chris Martine
Evolution of reproductive systems in Solanum, systematics
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

Hilary McManus
Phycology
LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY

Greg Mueller
Vice President, Science and Academic Affairs, Mycology
Chicago Botanic Garden

Brigid O'Donnell
Mayfly development & evolution
Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH

Maxi Polhironakis
Beetle Evolution & Sexual Selection, Drosophila Evolution
University of California, San Diego

Robert Raguso
Chemical Ecology, Pollination Biology, Animal (pollinator) Behavior
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Florian Reyda
Freshwater fish parasites & Shark and stingray tapeworms
State University of New York, Oneonta

Stuart Wagenius
Ecology & evolution of Echinacea
Chicago Botanic Garden

Norm Wickett
Comparative Genomics, Parasitic Plants, Bryology, and Bioinformatics
Chicago Botanic Garden & Northwestern University

Patti Vitt
Plant reproductive biology & demography
Chicago Botanic Garden

Nyree Zerega
Systematics and origins of cultivated plants
Chicago Botanic Garden

Societies
 
Botanical Society of America

Ecological Society of America

Society for Conservation Biology

Society for the Study of Evolution

The Wilderness Society

Grants
 
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Environmental Protection Agency - STAR (Science to Achieve Results) Fellowships

Botanical Society of America

American Society of Plant Taxonomists

Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research

Garden Club of America Fellowship in Ecological Restoration

Garden Club of America - The Joan K. Hunt And Rachel M. Hunt Summer Scholarship In Field Botany

Garden Club of America Summer Scholarship in Field Botany

Torrey Botanical Society - Graduate Student Research Fellowship

New England Botanical Club - Graduate Student Research Award

Center for Plant Conservation - The Catherine H. Beattie Fellowship

Explorers Club

National Fish and Wildlife Fund - Grant Programs

National Fish and Wildlife Fund - Keystone Initiative Grants

National Geographic Young Explorers Grants (YEG)

Additional Resources

www.plantbiology.northwestern.edu/students/grants.html
 
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