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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Please join us to hear Noah explain his work!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> The California Botanical Society [mailto:<a href="mailto:membership@calbotsoc.org">membership@calbotsoc.org</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 11, 2022 10:10 AM<br><b>To:</b> Amy Litt <<a href="mailto:amy.litt@ucr.edu">amy.litt@ucr.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> CalBotSoc Speaker October 13 (THIS THURSDAY!): Noah Teller</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td valign="top" style="background:#344d32;padding:33.75pt 0in 33.75pt 0in"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="0" style="width:6.25in;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td width="600" valign="top" style="width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 6.75pt 0in 6.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><img width="100" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://mcusercontent.com/c632809fa2b75323f2418bb1e/images/f872d1a5-13be-4538-b39a-e8a80e33d0f7.png"></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 0in 0in 0in"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td width="600" valign="top" style="width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;max-width:100%;min-width:100%"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;word-break:break-word"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:honeydew">Botany Speaker Series</span><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:honeydew"><br><br></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:honeydew">Upcoming talk:</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br> </span></p><h2 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:honeydew">Noah Teller</span><br><span style="font-size:15.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:honeydew">This Thursday!</span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:honeydew">October 13th, 2022</span></strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:honeydew"><br>7-8 pm PT</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:honeydew"><br><br></span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:honeydew">"Plant community structure responses<br>to invasive grass removal in wet meadows of the Sierra Nevada<em><b><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">"</span></b></em></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222"></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="bac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, biodiversity, composition, and rate of species accumulation, that post-invasion sites were not significantly different from nearby uninvaded areas. This shows that significant amounts of trampling and soil disturbance over more than a decade ultimately did not cause any undesirable changes in treated areas, indicating a resounding success for this conservation effort.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"> </span></p><h3 align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">Join us this Thursday</span></strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">October 13th, 2022</span></strong></span><br><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">7-8 pm PT</span></strong></h3></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background:#344d32;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td style="padding:13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt;border-radius:8px"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif"><a href="https://calbotsoc.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c632809fa2b75323f2418bb1e&id=316b4135b2&e=b69ac08598" target="_blank" title="Zoom link"><b><span style="color:white;letter-spacing:-.4pt;text-decoration:none">Zoom link</span></b></a> </span></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 6.75pt 0in 6.75pt;min-width:100%"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><img border="0" width="389" id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://mcusercontent.com/c632809fa2b75323f2418bb1e/images/b0e17d4f-47dd-7961-1162-6a514b9d3805.jpg"></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 0in 0in 0in"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td width="600" valign="top" style="width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;max-width:100%;min-width:100%"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;word-break:break-word"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt"><h3 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Bio</span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">Noah Teller is a PhD candidate in the Loralee Larios Restoration Ecology Lab at UC Riverside and a Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) technician at Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks. His academic work focuses on understanding and mitigating the unintended consequences of land management actions in the context of invasive species, including post-fire scenarios and delicate wilderness areas. Before coming to UCR, he received a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Whitman College, where he studied the impact of cattle grazing on the distribution of <em><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">Viola adunca</span></em>, the host plant of the endangered Myrtle's Silverspot Butterfly (<em><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">Speyeria zerene</span></em>) at Point Reyes National Seashore for his thesis. After graduating Noah worked as a Wilderness Ranger for the US Forest Service in Colorado, an ADA/wilderness trail construction technician at Prairie Creek and Humboldt Redwoods State Parks, and a Biological Science Technician at Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks. He grew up in Berkeley, California and developed an interest in wilderness and conservation through backpacking and visiting Berkeley Tuolumne Family Camp in the summers with his family. He is currently living in Richmond, California, and looking for new opportunities to branch out into the conservation job market in the San Francisco Bay Area.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"><br><br></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575">  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><strong><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Talk Zoom link: </span></i></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"><br></span><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"><a href="https://calbotsoc.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c632809fa2b75323f2418bb1e&id=1df186b94c&e=b69ac08598" target="_blank"><span style="color:green">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/98594151297?pwd=NXlJQ1YrVW10a2N5d1BnRWVrMVdkZz09</span></a></span></em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"><br> </span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://calbotsoc.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c632809fa2b75323f2418bb1e&id=142fc7c307&e=b69ac08598" target="_blank" title=""><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="300" id="_x0000_i1028" src="https://mcusercontent.com/c632809fa2b75323f2418bb1e/images/44adb833-118a-50bb-b059-f1bb092df58e.png"></span></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="564" valign="top" style="width:423.0pt;padding:0in 6.75pt 0in 6.75pt;word-break:break-word"><h2 align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">Upcoming dates! </span></strong></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575">  </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><strong><u><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">2022 Botany Speaker Series </span></u></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black"><br>October 13: Noah Teller, UC Riverside<br>November 10: Phebian Odufuwa, Boise State University<br>December 8: Brooke Rose, UC Riverside</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"><br><br> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">Are </span></strong><em><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">YOU</span></b></em><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black"> an early career botanist?</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">Want to give a talk in 2023?</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">Email us at <a href="mailto:membership@calbotsoc.org;%20rlolliff@berkeley.edu?subject=Botany%20Speaker%20Series%20Talk" target="_blank"><span style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal">membership@calbotsoc.org </span></a></span></strong></span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"> </span></p></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table class="MsoNormalTable"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