Live at Lunch: New Plant Discoveries from the Northern BC Alpine

Dr. Ken Marr, curator of botany, will give an illustrated presentation about the flora of northern BC, including images of the landscapes, rare plants, common plants, a pseudoflower, a puzzling gap in the distribution of several species and what we are learning from DNA markers about the migration of several species. 

About the speaker:

Ken Marr has been botany curator with the Royal BC Museum since 2001. His PhD is from the University of British Columbia, where he also did post-doctoral studies before heading to China for two and a half years to study ethnobotany. He taught plant taxonomy courses at the University of Wyoming and the University of Montana for one year prior to beginning at the Royal BC Museum. See Dr. Marr's full profile here