Lecture – “The Pursuit of Plants: from Templeogue to Tegucigalpa”
Dr Daniel Kelly
Thursday 21st January 2010
Dr Daniel Kelly is a Senior Lecturer in the Botany Department at Trinity College Dublin. A distinguished ecologist, he has worked extensively on the woodlands of Ireland, as well as in Latin America and the Caribbean. In his lecture, Dr Kelly will speak on the theme “from Gardener to Botanist – from Ireland to the New World Tropics – people, places and plants”.
Time: 8.00 pm, Visitor Centre
Organised jointly by the Irish Garden Plant Society and the Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club
Lecture – “Turloughs, Biodiversity and the Farmers’ role in maintaining it”
Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
Thursday 4th February 2010
Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington is a well-known botanist and lecturer in the Botany Department of University College Galway. She has worked extensively on the remarkable turlough habitats, the disappearing lakes of the west of Ireland and is an expert on the ecology on Ireland’s wetland habitats.
Time: 8.00 pm, Visitor Centre
Organised by the Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club
The Moore Lecture of the National Botanic Gardens – “Plants and landscapes of the Mediterranean”
Professor Vernon H. Heywood
Thursday 11th March 2010
The annual Moore Commemorative Lecture in 2010 will be delivered by the world-renowned botanist, Vernon H. Heywood. Further details and ticket applications will be announced later in the year.
Time: 8.00 pm. (Reception 7.30 pm.), Education and Visitor Centre
Lecture – “The Pursuit of Plants: from Templeogue to Tegucigalpa”
