Tag: Michael Dosmann

  • Nation & World

    New species in an urban ecosystem (read: solar panel)

    A new species of bacteria, one that makes its home on the relatively hot and dry surface of a solar panel, was discovered recently at the Arnold Arboretum, offering a lesson that nature’s reach extends even to the artificial.

    4 minutes
    Researchers getting samples off solar panels.
  • Nation & World

    Cultivating a wider role for women scientists

    A tiny seed has already changed the careers of the Arnold Arboretum’s Tiffany Enzenbacher and Kea Woodruff, and it may one day bear fruit in an example of flora rescued from extinction— and a growing space for women in science.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Wild ambition at the Arboretum

    The Arnold Arboretum is seeking some 400 different species around the world to add to collections.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Enemy of ash

    The Gazette spoke with Arboretum officials about the recent arrival of the emerald ash borer.

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    At the Arboretum, an unquiet winter

    Despite the dormant appearance of the trees, the Arnold Arboretum isn’t waiting for spring, as pruning, mowing, research, and planning continue to move ahead at full speed.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Cultivating trouble

    Only 39 percent of the nearly 10,000 North American plant species threatened with extinction are being maintained in collections, according to the first comprehensive listing of the threatened plant species in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

    6 minutes