Dr. John Dransfield Lecture - Hawaii Island Palm Society

[realarch]

Hawaii Island Palm Society is pleased to announce an upcoming lecture by one of the world’s foremost palm tree specialists and taxonomists, Dr. John Dransfield.

Dr. Dransfield, an honorary research fellow and former head of palm research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdon, is on a three week visit to the Hawaiian Islands to help identify and catalog palms at several major Hawaiian garden locations.

You are invited to join us on Wednesday evening, February 18th, 7:00pm, at the University of Hawaii - Hilo, lecture room UCB 100, Hilo, Hawaii. The topic of the presentation will be Dr. Dransfield’s ‘Favorite Palms’, followed by an extended Q&A session.

A silent auction of Dr. Dransfield's favorite palms will conclude the evening. Palms provided by Floribunda Palms and Exotics.

This presentation is free and open to the general public, you won’t want to miss this special event.

Questions? Call Tim Brian, (808) 333-5626.

hawaiiislandpalmsociety.com

[Kim]

Any chance of recording Dr. Dransfield's talk? Video?

[Dypsisdean]

Kim,

As you know, I am capable of recording these and making them available online, as I have done in the past - if anyone is ever interested it having it done.

However, a little late now for this one, as the "in-laws" just landed for a stay.

[realarch]

Certainly something we could take advantage of in the future, if we can get permission to do so. A recent speaker requested we not record his presentation.

Tonights event was a memorable one and probably would have lent itself more to an audio recording as Dr. Dransfield was in almost total darkness in order to see the images on the screen. I imagine a video would have worked, maybe just not as well.

The presentation was excellent by the way, finding out what Dr. Dransfield's favorite palms were, his early days in Indonesia and Malaysia, and his interest in the Calamoidae subfamily.

He also touched upon various genera including Pinanga, Orania, Oraniopsis, non-Dypsis Madagascan palms, and of course, Dypsis, his current project. Incidently, there were a couple of slides showing some monster palms in Madagascar which have yet to be identified and Dr. Dransfield had no idea, at this point, what they were.

The event was well attended, with almost 100 folks in attendance. The room was packed and us HIPsters were pleased.

Tim

[Dypsisdean]

I'm sorry I had to miss this one - rare family obligations took precedence.

For future reference - recordings of these presentations do not lend themselves well to video. But we can always do them as we have done in the past. For example, as we did with Jeff Marcus and Scot Nelson - with just overlaying the slides with the audio recording.

Remember Scot's Palm Pest presentation? And we did the same thing with Jeff's HIPS Madagascar presentation.

HIPS - Jeff Marcus Madagascar Expeditions

HIPS - Palm Pests of Hawaii

[colin Peters]

Wow, sounds like it was a great success. I just couldn't make it over to the Big Island at this time.

Thanks to all who were involved.

aloha