Environmental Fridays, Dec. 9
Welcome to Season III, Episode 12, of Environmental Fridays ... it is personal.
Join us this coming Friday, Dec. 9, 2022, for Environmental Fridays, Episode 12, at 9:30 a.m. EST (10:30 a.m. Caribbean) to listen and learn about "Plants of Trinidad and Tobago" by Juan Francisco Morales, curator of the National Herbarium of Trinidad and Tobago. This is the final episode of Season III. Season IV, with 16 exciting episodes, is scheduled to begin on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023.
The co-host for Episode 12 is Vayani Toney, president, Associated Student Body, University of Southern Caribbean, Maracas, Trinidad.
The Zoom Meeting link is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85270285938?pwd=REpoc3VjVkdRN1dJRkkvbDd2eHJvZz09.
- Meeting ID: 852 7028 5938
- Passcode: 948025
Everyone is welcome. Environmental Fridays is free to all—students, professionals, community.
Contact Desmond Hartwell Murray, associate professor of chemistry, at murrayd@andrews.edu if you have any questions.
Guest Speaker Bio
Juan Francisco Morales is currently curator of the National Herbarium of Trinidad and Tobago on the St. Augustine campus of the University of West Indies, Trinidad. He was a research assistant at the Missouri Botanical Garden and associate professor at Universidad Tecnica Nacional in Costa Rica. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Biology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Trinidad and Tobago have a long history of plant collecting dating from the sixteenth century which accelerated with the establishment of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Herbarium in Port of Spain in 1818. The Herbarium has over 70,000 specimens and its mission is to collect, preserve, research and document the flora of Trinidad and Tobago and to provide floristic information about it upon request.
Co-Host Bio
Vayani Toney is from St. Vincent and the Grenadines but resides in Antigua and Barbuda. He is a fourth- and final-year student at the University of the Southern Caribbean, Maracas, Trinidad. He is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in criminology and criminal justice. He is the 2022–2023 Associated Student Body president and the VINADA Cultural Club president. He is youth-oriented and a community outreach driven individual. His passion and goal after completing his studies is to create programs for disadvantaged youths and young adults in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Caribbean.
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