Network Conference - Last Chance To Register - 31St October 2006
A big gathering of New Zealand and overseas botanists is happening in Auckland between the 20th and 22nd of November 2006. A joint celebration of the centennial of New Zealand’s first resident botanist to write a flora - Thomas Cheeseman and his 1906 indigenous New Zealand vascular plant flora well be happening. Come and participate in a special event unlikely to happen again for, well…. another 100 years!The Cheeseman Conference is now in the final stages of preparation. The conference, celebrating the 1906 publication of Thomas Cheeseman’s full Indigenous Vascular Flora treatment will see a gathering of over 120 New Zealand, Australian and other international botanists. There will be key note addresses on the work and life of Thomas Cheeseman (Mr Ewen Cameron), New Zealand floras and bioinformatics (Dr Aaron Wilton), New Zealand flora systematics (Dr Rob Smissen), Pollination and reproductive biology (Dr Linda Newstrom), Science, conservation and conservation management (Dr Andrew Young), plant morphology, cytology and function (Dr Brian Murray) and plant phylogeny (Dr Leon Perrie). A further 29 oral papers and 22 poster papers will be offered on these themes - some samplers incclude the first comprehensive account of New Zealand orchid cytology, an account of the work of William Lauder Lindsay, a review of the Grammitidaceae, and have we truly lost our bird-flower mutualisms?
The NZPCN will be running various workshops and tutorials, and plant displays and artwork will be featured at the conference centre. As part of the ceremonies the NZPCN awards will be presented, along with the New Zealand Botanical Society Allan Mere, and the long awaited final book of Audrey Eagle will be launched. A very special announcement concerning the process for future threatened plant listings will be made jointly by the New Zealand Department of Conservation and NZPCN.
After conference field trips to see the unusual flora of the young basaltic volcano Rangitoto Island and to investigate threatened plant propagation and management will be undertaken.
Don’t miss all the fun and the knowledge sharing. Follow the links on the NZPCN website (under Conservation info>Events) and register now for this once in a life time conference or email directly Mei Nee Lee at the Auckland Museum ([Enable JavaScript to view protected content]). Registrations close today - 31st October 2006
Posted: 31/10/2006