Learn about the flora of Antarctica and how it's changed over the past decades with Dr. Sancho this Earth Day. The OSU Herbarium and Polar Rock Repository maintains a major collection of plant specimens, with substantial number of Antarctic lichens collected by polar botanist Dr. Emanuel Rudolph in the early 1960’s. Most of these are on rocks and remain unidentified thirty years after Dr. Rudolph’s death. Samples will be available for guests to view.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Leopoldo G. Sancho is a Professor of Botany and Plant Science at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Member of the Spanish Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and participant of 13 expeditions to Antarctica.
To register, visit https://cart.fpconservatory.org/11898/11899