Dr. Dillon is currently Curator Emeritus and previously was Curator of Flowering Plants at the Field Museum of Natural History for 30 years until his retirement in 2008. Over those three decades he became one of the world’s leading experts on the plants of Peru, as well as the effects of El Niño events on Neotropical plant populations. He has published more than 100 scientific papers, and described dozens of new species, principally plants of Peru and Chile. Between 2005 and 2008 Dr. Dillon was Chair of the Department of Botany, overseeing a major upgrade of The Field Museum Herbarium and botanical labs and spearheading pioneering efforts in collections digitization.
Join us early at 6:00 p.m. for a social hour with refreshments. We are extending this month’s social time to an hour, serving hearty appetizers and snacks to welcome our out-of-town guest speaker, Dr. Michael Dillon. Refreshments will also be available after the meeting.
This meeting is hybrid: we will meet on Zoom and in-person on the NMSU campus — room 101 of the the Biology Annex, Herbarium Building, 3080 Williams Avenue. Free parking north and south of the annex after 4:30 p.m.
If you are participating via Zoom, your video will be deactivated, and your audio will be muted. If you have questions at the end of the presentation, you may submit them via the Chat tool. When you sign on to Zoom, you will be placed in the waiting room until the host or co-host admits you to the meeting. You will not be admitted until 7:00 pm. Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87077328950
Dr. Dillon is currently Curator Emeritus and previously was Curator of Flowering Plants at the Field Museum of Natural History for 30 years until his retirement in 2008. Over those three decades he became one of the world’s leading experts on the plants of Peru, as well as the effects of El Niño events on Neotropical plant populations. He […]
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