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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"> </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> Monday, January 8, 2024 9:16 AM<br><b>To:</b> Amy Litt <<a href="mailto:amy.litt@ucr.edu">amy.litt@ucr.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> This Week! (Thursday Jan. 11th) at 7pm! CalBotSoc Speaker – Steve Matson</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 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style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%"><tr><td width="600" valign="top" style="width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-break:break-word"><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 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:white">Botany Speaker Series</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br><br></span><strong><span style="font-size:19.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:honeydew">Steve Matson</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br><br></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:white">January 11th, 2024</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:white"><br></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:white">7-8 pm PT</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br> </span></p><h3 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:honeydew">"2023 Highlights of a season in the field"</span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><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="background:white;padding:27.0pt 0in 33.75pt 0in;background:cover;background-size:cover" id="templateBody"><div align="center"><table 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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"><br><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">Talk Description</span><br> </h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">This month we take a break from research talks to revisit some of the interesting plants that appeared after the unusual rains of 2023. Carefully documented photographs that show as many aspects of the morphology of the plants as possible are a new and readily available resource for research, now available on iNaturalist and other platforms. They show colors, shapes, and architecture sometimes almost completely lost in herbarium specimens and can lead to new insight into the biology of the plants. Combine the improvement in photographic equipment with the eagle eye of great field botanists like Steve Matson and discoveries are bound to follow. Most of Steve’s photos are from the Owens Valley and Mojave deserts, but he covers much of California, and his images have been used in rare plant publications by many state and federal agencies around the country. He collaborates with and does field work with many taxonomic specialists.<br><br>By living in eastern California and interacting with certain botanists Steve has continued to pursue an overall goal of photo-documenting the flora of that region specifically and California in general. His talk will focus on a broad review of plants he saw in 2023 in Inyo and Mono Counties, with highlights of taxonomic significance.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"><br> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:15.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black"> Join us on Thursday!</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></b><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">January 11th, 2024</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">7-8 pm PT</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"><br><br></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Zoom link: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89805189189?pwd=dnpza0QzNTV1OVMrTmo1MjFwbkVTZz09">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89805189189?pwd=dnpza0QzNTV1OVMrTmo1MjFwbkVTZz09</a></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"></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;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=b6a1d019af&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="564" id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://mcusercontent.com/c632809fa2b75323f2418bb1e/images/0a7758da-d9aa-15af-a540-b8076b392b37.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"><strong><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">Bio</span></strong><br> </h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:black">Steve Matson grew up in California. He received a B.S. in Physical Science from Sierra Nevada College and a Masters in Philosophy from U.C. Santa Barbara in 1986. His interest in plants began in 1987 when he asked that big question "what is this"? That snowballed into involvement with the California Native Plant Society (both the Tahoe and Bristlecone chapters). Steve has taken many taxonomy workshops with UC Berkeley Jepson Herbarium. He began contributing images to CalPhotos in the early 2000s, which now number over 25,000. Steve has posted more than 12,000 observations of more than 2,650 species on iNaturalist. Steve’s goal is to provide the botanical community diagnostic images of as many California plants as he can.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"> </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;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" 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