This is a lecture-style class taught by Dr. Leopoldo G Sancho called Tracking Lichens on the Frozen Continent: Life between Ice and Rock in Antarctica.
Learn about the flora of Antarctica and how it’s changed over the past decades with Dr. Sancho, and with support from The Ohio State University this Earth Day! The OSU Herbarium and Polar Rock Repository maintains a major collection of plant specimens, with a substantial number of Antarctic lichens collected by polar botanist Dr. Emanuel Rudolph in the early 1960’s. Most of these samples are on rocks and remain unidentified thirty years after Dr. Rudolph’s death, and samples from the collection will be available for guests to view.
Earth Day Biome Tour, $5 for members and non-members
Interested in experiencing the Conservatory plant collection in a way you haven’t before? Before the lecture, join a Conservatory Educator on an after-hours 30-minute guided tour to experience the biomes through our eyes. The tour will highlight plants that play important roles in human consumption, as well as some rare and endangered species in our collection. If you’re interested in signing up for the biome tour in addition to the lecture, please click the register button on the right to sign up for the lecture, then, navigate back to this page, and click the Earth Day Biome Tour button. Lecture participants only.
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