2024 Nov 21 Meeting – Remarkable Flora of Catalina Island
From the Field to the Genetics Lab:
The Remarkable Flora of Santa Catalina Island
with Matt Guilliams
November 21 Thursday, At the Duck Club, Irvine
Doors Open 6:45 pm Presentation 7:30 pm
Prelude
- Irvine Ranch Conservancy is bringing small pots of hummingbird sage to give away.
- CNPS Orange County Chapter Swag – HATS! Embroidered locally, while supplies last – $20 each.
- Free Books. We are giving away 26 excess inventory books covering 7 titles to good homes. Come to the table, point to a book, tell us why you want that book, and you can have it.
Presentation
Since arriving to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden in 2014, Matt has been working on a book-length flora focusing on the plants of Santa Catalina Island. In this talk, Matt discusses the remarkable plant life of the island, how the island’s flora relates to that of the other Channel Islands, and new discoveries made over the course of the book project.
Speaker
Matt Guilliams is the Ken and Shirley Tucker plant systematist and curator of the Clifton Smith Herbarium at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. As a botanist/plant systematist, his overall focus is the study of the flora of California, which includes floristics, biodiversity description, inferring evolutionary patterns, and conservation genetics of rare plants. Matt earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in evolutionary biology from San Diego State University and his doctorate in integrative biology from University of California, Berkeley. He has been working as a botanist in the state since 1998.
