BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Tijuana BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181104T010000 RDATE:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 RDATE:20200308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 RDATE:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 RDATE:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 RDATE:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 RDATE:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 RDATE:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 RDATE:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180516T193000 RDATE:20181104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 RDATE:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T030000 RDATE:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 RDATE:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 RDATE:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 RDATE:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 RDATE:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 RDATE:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c99159e932bee7913eb3e208b3a4cf09 CATEGORIES:Meetings CREATED:20190418T193118 SUMMARY:Life on the Rocks: Plants on Serpentine and Other “Harsh” Rock Outcrop Plant Communities LOCATION:Los Altos Library Program Room 13 S. San Antonio Road\, Los Altos DESCRIPTION:
Serpentine and other rock outcrops are home to many rare and endemic species of plants here in California and around the world. These rock outcrops have provided model settings for botanical explorations and the study of plant biology. Study topics range from diversity and ecology to physiology and evolution a s well as the development of green technologies such as phytoremediation an d agromining.
Join us at this talk, which will highlight plant-soil relations of rock outcrops both locally and globally and note important discoveries in e cology, physiology, genetics and biotechnology from the study of rock outcr op plants. The threats faced by these geobotanical wonders and the urgent n eed for their conservation will also be discussed.
Nishi Rajakaruna < /span>fell in lo ve with plants at a young age during a visit to Sinharaja Rainforest, a low land tropical rainforest in Sri Lanka. He received a BA in human ecology fr om College of the Atlantic (Maine) and conducted his post-undergraduate practic al training in plant ecophysiology at Harvard University. His research on t he evolutionary ecology of the Lasthenia californica complex earned him a MS and a P hD in botany from the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Nishi conducted post-doctoral research in plant ecology at Stanford University. His researc h examines how plant diversity, ecology, and evolution are influenced by se rpentine and other “unusual” soils, including those with heavy metals. He t aught botany at College of the Atlantic and San José State University for 12 years and spent a year as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Sri Lanka and In dia. He is currently an associate professor in plant biology at California Polytechnic State University where he teaches general botany, biogeography and ethnobotany.