# News Archive Sort**04/29/2010** Announcing the 6th Annual Plant Biology Symposium: Trees and the Global Environment - [Sixth Annual Plant Biology Symposium](http://www.pbi.fas.harvard.edu/events.htm) **02/11/2010** [Nature](http://www.nature.com/) Research Highlight features Davis and colleagues: Climate Change, Warming boosts invasions. - [Nature Research Highlight \[pdf\]](/file_url/694) **02/04/2010** Davis and Losos labs identify link between climate change and invasive species in Thoreau's woods. - [Boston Globe](http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/02/04/another_change_taking_place_at_walden_pond/) - [WBUR.org](http://www.wbur.org/2010/02/04/walden) - [Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/section/science-n-health/) - [Harvard Magazine](http://harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-the-news/climate-change-benefits-invasive-species) **10/28/2009** Senior research scientist, Campbell Webb, and his wife, combine their interests in nature and health in unique ways in the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, at the Asri Clinic[PBS.org](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/july-dec09/borneo_10-28.html) **10/26/2009** Donald Pfister honored for work with fungi: The Northeast Mycological Federation (NEMF) presented him with the *Amicus Tironum* Award **10/15/2009** 30 new plant species uncovered in the Hengduan Mountains, China. David Boufford began collecting in the region in the mid-1990s - [Gazette story](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/10/biodiversity-altitude-leave-collectors-breathless-in-china%E2%80%99s-hengduan-mountains/) **09/17/2009** New Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Dr. Kirsten Bomblies, examines plant immune responses for clues to divergence - [Gazette story](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/growing-her-own-answers/) **Sept-Oct 2009** A scrapbook of seaweed and seaside scenes of Martha's Vineyard, including a scrapbook given to Harvard's [Farlow Herbarium](/pages/farlow-herbarium-fh) in 2002, and featuring an online exhibition arranged by Lisa DeCesare - [Harvard Magazine](http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/09/seaweed-scrapbook) - [Online exhibit](http://botlib.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/Robinson_exhibit/seaweed_about.htm) **04/30/2009** The Dalai Lama planted a birch tree in Harvard Yard, a hybrid of Eastern and Western varieties, created especially for the occasion by the staff of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum. - [Gazette story](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/04/the-dalai-lama-speaks-at-harvard/) **04/26/2009** Carroll Wood, professor emeritus at Harvard University, passed away at age 88, leaving behind an important botanical legacy. - [Boston Globe story](http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/04/09/carroll_wood_88_botanist_nurtured_flora_and_humans/) - [Harvard Gazette story](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/03/carroll-emory-wood-jr-passes-away-at-the-age-of-88/) **March-April 2009** A collection of botanical pith paintings acquired by Charles Sprague Sargent, and currently housed in the archives of the Botany Libraries, was featured in [Harvard Magazine](http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/03/pith-paper) and are currently part of an [online exhibition](http://botlib.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/Tetrap_exhibit/pith.htm) arranged by Lisa DeCesare. **03/26/2009** John Muir's botanical travels, plant collecting, and tracking down his plant specimens - [WBUR.org story](http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2009/03/john-muirs-botanical-journeys/?autostart=true) **12/18/2008** Dr. Paul Moorcroft's forest models provide detailed view of forest responses to climate variation - [Gazette story](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/11/global-warming-predicted-to-hasten-carbon-release-from-peat-bogs/) **10/30/2008** Davies and colleagues at the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) are building an observatory out of trees - [Gazette story](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/10/new-guinea-forest-expands-%E2%80%98observatory%E2%80%99/) **10/28/2008** Grad students Brad Rhufel and Charles Willis, working with Charles Davis, used Thoreau's Walden Pond plant records to document climate change - [New York Times story](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/science/earth/28wald.html?_r=3&ref=science&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin) - [Globe story](http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/10/28/troubling_toll_in_thoreaus_backyard/) - [Gazette story](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/10/effects-of-climate-change-vary-greatly-across-plant-families/) **10/14/2008** Takeshi Ise, a 2008 OEB PhD graduate in Paul Moorcroft's lab, has shown that rising temperatures may dry up peat bogs, causing carbon release. - [New York Times story](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/science/14obpeat.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogin&oref=slogin) **9/25/2008** Harvard Forest Director David Foster, promotes conservation of Bay State forestland through "Wildlands and Woodlands" - [Gazette story](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/09/harvard-forest-3500-acres-global-impact/) **8/13/2008** Don Pfister awarded the Weston Award for Teaching Excellence by the Mycological Society of America **7/4/2008** Grad students Brad Rhufel and Charles Willis, working with Charles Davis, used Thoreau's Walden Pond plant records to document climate change - [Science story](http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/321/5885/24b) **5/22/2008** Ashton: A legacy written in trunk, limb, and leaf - [Gazette story](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/05/ashton-a-legacy-written-in-trunk-limb-and-leaf/) **4/10/2008** Arboretum launches online Seed Herbarium Image Project (SHIP), a significant new resource for horticulturalists around the world. **3/30/2008** Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology showcases "Sea Creatures in Glass," part of a larger collection of glass animals and plants made by the Blaschkas. - [Boston Globe story](http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/30/glass_exhibit_reflects_beauty_of_art_accuracy_of_science/) **1/27/2008** Peter Ashton awarded the 10th David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration by the National Tropical Botanical Garden **12/12/2007** Charles Davis's *Rafflesia* paper selected as Discover Magazine's top 100 discoveries of 2007 - [Discover Magazine story](http://discovermagazine.com/yearinscience) **12/06/2007** Donald Pfister chosen as new dean of Harvard Summer School **12/06/2007** Arnold Arboretum's bonsai collection highlights age and beauty **10/25/2007** Biodiversity field course brings students to Borneo **09/13/2007** The origin of the Orchidaceae is discovered from a fossil orchid **04/05/2007** Kenneth Feeley discovers surprising results about global warming **02/08/2007** Anne Pringle investigates the death cap mushroom, *Amanita phalloides* **02/01/2007** Charles Davis solves the mystery of *Rafflesia* **01/11/2007** Peter Ashton awarded the Japan Prize