Grant Received to Support Symposium to Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Publication of "Flora of the Bahama Archipelago"

Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:38:03 AM

The Bahamas Environmental Fund has funded a grant proposal for the organization of a symposium on Caribbean Biodiversity to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the publication of "Flora of the Bahama Archipelago". The symposium will take in the Bahamas (October 30 - 31 at Nassau). The Bahamas National Trust is the primary organizer of this symposium in association with the College of the Bahamas, Fairchild, and FIU-Biology. The grant has Brett Jestrow (curator of the herbarium of Fairchild), Ethan Freid (botanist of the Bahamas National Trust), and Javier Francisco-Ortega (FIU-Fairchild faculty) as Principal Investigators. Click here for further details about the symposium.