Field Seminar: "Natural Areas of the Southern Lake Michigan Region" Class of 2019
Educational Services and Products
We are excited to announce our upcoming Floristic Quality Assessment Seminar, where attendees will learn the latest methodologies and techniques for evaluating the plant diversity and composition of a given area. Join us for a hands-on learning experience with expert instructors and gain valuable skills to help you make a positive impact on the natural world.
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Conservation Research Institute is pleased to offer an addition to the Flora of the Chicago Region, A Floristic and Ecological Synthesis – an illustrated glossary.
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Gerould Wilhelm, PhD, is available for speaking engagements through Conservation Research Institute (CRI). Jerry is an internationally renowned botanist and ecologist who has been studying the Chicago region flora for over 40-years. He is coauthor, with Laura Rericha, of Flora of the Chicago Region: A Floristic and Ecological Synthesis, published by the Indiana Academy of Science in 2017.
Dr. Wilhelm has been requested to speak to many groups over the past several decades, from professional botanical societies, to workshops and seminars, conservation groups, and local garden clubs. Topics close to his heart are listed below, but presentation topics can be tailored to a specific request. The base fee-stipend for a speaking engagement is $1000, necessary to compensate Jerry for preparation, presentation, and travel (for locations within a 25-mile radius from Glen Ellyn, Illinois). Speaking engagements are approximately 2 to 3 hours in length.*
- Floristic Quality Assessment and Species Conservatism
- The Ecology and Culture of Water
- Biblical Environmental Wisdom
- School of Athens Painting by Raphael
- Consilience
- Other topics have included: The Dune Flora; History of Botany in Chicago Region
Book Signings: Jerry and Laura are available for book signings for the Flora, which can include a brief 35 minute presentation.*
The Conservation Research Institute (CRI) is proud to offer the following special educational resources that are available for purchase:
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Watercolors by Mary Marguerite Lowther from A Call to Beauty. The poster is 18" x 28" in size. Gift included with donations over $300 to Conservation Research Institute.
Questions? Contact Margot Mazur, onsresearchinst.mazur@gmail.com
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Completely updated and rewritten, the Flora of the Chicago Region: A Floristic and Ecological Synthesis is rich with new and expanded features in comparison with the 4th edition of the Plants of the Chicago Region by Floyd Swink and Gerould Wilhelm (1994). Also, it has added newly-described species and range updates; morphological descriptions; taxonomic etymology; re-evaluations of many problematic genera; an entirely new section of associate flora and fauna such as bryophytes, lichens, insects, birds, and mammals; in-depth descriptions of our region's habitats, geology, and soils; a re-evaluation of our region's coefficients of conservatism, and original illustrations for every genus. For more information, click here.
The Flora is available for purchase from the Indiana Academy of Science and the Morton Arboretum bookstore in Lisle, Illinois.
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