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Research Talks

As part of our sesquicentennial, Arboretum Research Talks will celebrate 150 years of research at the Arboretum. Most AA research talks will feature speakers with an Arboretum connection (Arboretum 150 logo) including current and former scientists, postdoctoral researchers, students, interns, and visitors researching in our labs and greenhouses at Weld Hill, on the grounds, and in the collections. Our sesquicentennial offers a unique opportunity to celebrate our illustrious past and help define and amplify what it means to be a twenty-first century arboretum in service to science and humankind.

The Arnold Arboretum and the Harvard University Herbaria (HUH) will hold a joint seminar series. All talks are free and open to all. To receive announcements, sign up for the AA Research Talks mailing list.

WATCH LIVE wherever you are! Talks will either be available LIVE on Zoom (please note registration is REQUIRED) OR in-person and live-streamed on YouTube.

In-person Arboretum talks will be in the Weld Hill Lecture Hall with a live-stream on the Arboretum YouTube channel.

In-person HUH Seminars will be in the HUH Seminar Room 125 (22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138) with a live-stream on the HUH YouTube channel.

Upcoming Talks

HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 12:00 pm
Jenifer de Carvalho Lopes Dantas

HUH Research Fellow

Diversity of the Brazilian Flora and the program REFLORA
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 23, 2023, 12:10 pm
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Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth
2023 Jewett Prize Awardee and Visiting Scholar, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

Fun with phloem: What we know, don’t know, and wish we knew
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 30, 2023, 12:10 pm
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Global Change Fellow, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Environmental Fellow, Harvard Center for the Environment

Arctic heatwaves and nitrogen and carbon cycling
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 13, 2023, 12:10 pm
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NE CASC Postdoctoral Fellow, UMass Amherst

Invasive plant impacts in the continental United States: processes, patterns and prevention
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 12:00 pm
Dawson White

HUH Research Fellow

Title: TBA
AA Research Talks
Monday, December 11, 2023, 12:10 pm

Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Host: Taylor Lab

Title: TBA
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 12:00 pm
Tiago Vieira

HUH Research Fellow

Systematics and evolution of Prosthechea (Orchidaceae), a remarkably diverse Neotropical lineage
AA Research Talks
Monday, January 29, 2024, 12:10 pm

Robert E. King Distinguished Investigator, Donald Danforth Plant Research Center
National Academy of Sciences

Title: TBA

See our events page for more lectures, classes and tours at the Arboretum.

See more Harvard Events (calendar hosted by the Harvard University Center for the Environment).

See past Research Talks.