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Mosses, Liverworts and Sphagnum June 26 - July 2, 2016 Instructors: Nancy Slack and Ralph Pope Location: Eagle Hill Institute, Steuben, Me This seminar is for beginner and intermediate bryology students. It will enable you to identify mosses including Sphagnum, as well as liverworts and hornworts. Emphasis will be on field characters as well as laboratory practice. We will visit a variety of habitats including conifer and deciduous forests, bogs, streams, and seashore. Lectures and discussions will include interesting aspects of bryophyte biology ecology, and bryophyte families and taxonomy, as well as moss gardening and photography. Students will be provided with Ralph Pope's new bryophyte field guide, Mosses and Allies, and we will also use Bruce Allen's Mosses of Maine. About the Instructors: Nancy G. Slack ([email protected]), Professor Emerita of Biology at the Sage Colleges (NY), currently conducts bryophyte and lichen workshops. She is an ecological consultant and past president of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS). She has published papers on bryophyte ecology and diversity, Bogs and fens, Sphagnum, and old-growth forests. She is the author/co-author of several books, including Bryophyte Ecology and Climate Change (2011) and field guides including the new AMC Field Guide to the Alpine Summits of New England (2014) and Adirondack Alpine Summit: an Ecological Field Guide; these include bryophytes and lichens as well as alpine flowers, birds and other animals. Her current research is on Mt. Washington (NH) alpine plant communities in relation to future climate change. Ralph Pope ([email protected]) has been interested in lichens and mosses since studying alpine zone lichens for his master’s thesis at Antioch University New England in 2003. While teaching bryophyte identification at Antioch, he realized that the available resources were not inviting for a beginning student. He has recently completed a solution, Mosses and Allies: A Field Guide to Common Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts of Northeastern North America to be published by Cornell University Press September, 2016. Fortunately, Cornell has graciously arranged for us to have pre-publication copies available for this class. Ralph is also author of Lichens above Treeline: A Hiker’s Guide to Alpine Zone Lichens of the Northeastern United States (2005). For general information, go to http://eaglehill.us/programs/nhs/natural-history-seminars.shtml For course calendar and course descriptions, go to http://www.eaglehill.us/programs/nhs/nhs-calendar.shtml For application information and cost breakdown, go to http://www.eaglehill.us/programs/general/application-info.shtml For more information, contact [email protected], 207-546-2821 x 1
