Date: December 3, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Location: Cooley Theater


Contact: John R. Clark
Phone: 941-366-5731 ext 256
Email: jrclark@selby.org

Sarasota Magazine's "Extreme Botany" blogger and Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Director of Gesneriad Research Center, John R. Clark shares tales from his recent plant collecting journey to the Solomon Islands.

You won't want to miss this rare opportunity to hear adventurous tales from the other side of the world!  His travels have included research expeditions in Trinidad, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Samoa, and Fiji.  His latest adventure took him to the edge of the world - a two month-long expedition to the Solomon Islands (sponsored by Dr. Anne Vidaver) to collect rare and endangered plants for scientific study.  The Solomon Islands, a group of about 900 islands found northeast of Australia and due east of Papua New Guinea, possess some of the last large, intact tracts of island rainforest in the world.  John spent this past May and June island hopping via outboard motor boat, canoe and bush plane to some of the most remote islands in the archipelago.  While there, John encountred everything from pristine forests to intestinal parasites.  Save the date to hear his tales of great exploration and success.

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