<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">*The next Plant
Conservation Alliance meeting is on Wednesday, November 8th<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">from 2:00 -
4:00 pm ET.*<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">"Using community phylogenetics to
understand species distributions and responses to climate change: an example
with Florida ferns”<span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The PCA is excited
to welcome Dr. Emily Sessa to speak with us about her research at The
University of Florida (UFL) from 2:00-3:00 pm ET, on November 8th. Research in the Sessa lab
focuses broadly on plant systematics and understanding the evolutionary and
ecological processes that shape plant diversity. Lab members work on a number
of projects around this central theme, with a strong emphasis on the seed-free
vascular plants: ferns and lycophytes. The primary question motivating much of
our research is: What ecological and evolutionary processes have generated, and
maintain, fern and lycophyte diversity on earth? Emily will discuss community
phylogenetic analyses, which are a set of methods that can be used to
understand how plants assemble into communities by taking into account their
evolutionary history. She will use the ferns found in the state of Florida as
an example, and discuss how her lab is using phylogenetic trees and climate
modeling to understand where ferns are found now and how their distributions
may change in the future.<span></span></span></p>
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Washington, DC area and would like to attend this meeting in person, please
email Leah Prescott (lprescott at <a href="http://blm.gov">blm.gov</a>) by COB Friday, November 3<sup>rd</sup>**<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">* Be sure to
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">UPCOMING PCA
MEETINGS</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">January 10,
2018: Jeannette Whitton, Director University of British Columbia Herbarium,
Canada's SARA & COSEWIC<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">March 14, 2018: Margaret
O'Gorman - President of the Wildlife Habitat Council<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">More about Dr. Emily
Sessa</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Emily is an assistant
professor in the Biology Department at the University of Florida, and her work
focuses on basic science and understanding global plant biodiversity. She
earned her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Cornell University in 2005
and her PhD in Botany from Cornell University in 2012. She completed her
postdoctoral training at the University of Arizona before joining the
University of Florida faculty in 2013. Her research interests include plant
systematics and evolution, phylogenetics, historical biogeography,
diversification processes, physiological ecology, functional traits, community
assembly, and reticulate evolution, and most of her work centers on ferns and
lycophytes.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#0c343d" style="font-size:12.8px">Leah Prescott</font><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(12,52,61);font-size:12.8px">Bureau of Land Management</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(12,52,61);font-size:12.8px">Plant Conservation Program Assistant</span><span style="color:rgb(12,52,61);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#0c343d">202-912-7232</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Plant Conservation Alliance</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Seeds of Success</a></span></div></div></div>
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