New Calflora Tools for Your Native Plant Ventures and Adventures
by Cynthia Powell
Executive Director—Calflora
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 9:00am–4:00pm
Workshop Flier
Please join Calflora’s Executive Director Cynthia Powell to learn about new Calflora tools for native plant professionals, gardeners, and enthusiasts! Calflora aggregates millions of plant observations across the state from thousands of sources and serves them to the public free of charge. These data sources include CCH2 (plant specimens from the California Consortium of Herbaria), iNaturalist, and CNPS plant checklists from around the state. How can you better use this incredible resource to learn more about regional plants?
At this presentation, Cynthia will cover Calflora’s planning your garden tool, specimen and other plant observations used in this tool, detailed plant ranges now available on Calflora’s species pages (for example, Grindelia stricta), population monitoring tools, and email alerts. She will also go over the important role CNPS members play in submitting and commenting on Calflora observations and checklists.
Hike! Following the presentation, Cynthia will lead a hike in Bidwell Park from 12:30 to 4 pm to demonstrate some Calflora tools in the field and to enjoy the park.
Cynthia Powell’s bio: After 3 years as Calflora’s GIS Project Manager, in 2016 Cynthia became Calflora’s Executive Director. She graduated with her MS in GIS (Geographic Information Science) in 2010 forecasting Mokelumne River water supply based on MODIS remote sensing snowpack images. She’s been examining what was under that snow — plants — ever since. She coordinates all Calflora programs, research, outreach, and advocacy, as well as fundraising and project management.
Cynthia wears many hats.
The workshop will be held on Tuesday, 21 May 2024, from 9:00‐4:00 in Holt Hall room 129 at CSU, Chico, with a lunch break from 11:30‐12:30, following by a hike until 4. The registration fee is $110.00 personal, $130.00 business, $100.00 for members of the Friends of the Ahart Herbarium, and $50.00 for students (only 2 seats available at the student price). Please register in advance; class size limited to 20 participants (class cancelled without a minimum of 8 participants). For more information about the workshop content please contact Cynthia Powell at cpowell@calflora.org. For information about registration, contact the Biology office at (530) 898‐5356. If registering with a credit card, please follow instructions listed in the online registration form.