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Monday, July 8, 2024 |
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024 |
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024 |
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Thursday, July 11, 2024 |
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Friday, July 12, 2024 |
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Monday, July 15, 2024 |
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Meeting Date |
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Monday, July 8, 2024 |
09:00am |
05:00pm |
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 |
09:00am |
05:00pm |
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 |
09:00am |
05:00pm |
Thursday, July 11, 2024 |
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Friday, July 12, 2024 |
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Monday, July 15, 2024 |
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024 |
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024 |
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Thursday, July 18, 2024 |
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Friday, July 19, 2024 |
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Wednesday, July 24, 2024 |
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Thursday, July 25, 2024 |
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Friday, July 26, 2024 |
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Monday, July 29, 2024 |
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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 |
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Wednesday, July 31, 2024 |
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Thursday, August 1, 2024 |
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Friday, August 2, 2024 |
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Damon Arrington
Damon Arrington
Damon Arrington
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Damon Arrington is a Landscape Urbanist who focuses on crisis landscapes and their subsequent effect on the people that inhabit them, he is dedicated to exposing environmental injustice. Damon obtained a Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture from The City College of New York where he was a scholar for the J. Max Bond Center for Inclusion and Equity. His notable Landscape Architecture projects in NYC include The Hills on Governors Island, Jamaica Bay Restoration Project and park spaces for The New York Housing Authority. His work bridges science and architecture with art and community.
Damon is owner of Verru Design, a landscape design firm in Brooklyn, NY which focuses on research and community as a way to generate design thought. Visit his website at verrudesign.com
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Caitlin Merritt
Caitlin Merritt
Caitlin Merritt
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Caitlin Merritt finds a great source of her enthusiasm and designs from theintersections of aesthetics, history and culture. In addition to teaching at the New York Botanical Garden, Caitlin teaches classes in philosophy, intellectual history and great books at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She has earned her bachelor of arts in Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross and her Master's at Boston College.
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Elizabeth Poccia
Elizabeth Poccia
Elizabeth Poccia
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Elizabeth Poccia recently received a Certificate in Landscape Design from the New York Botanical Garden. She is a former Assistant Designer to Bill Einhorn's firm, LDAW Landscape Architecture, where she was involved inhigh end residential design. She is passionate about using graphics as a tool to communicate reality to plan.
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Michael Hagen
Michael Hagen
Michael Hagen
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Michael Hagen is Curator of the Native Plant Garden and the Rock Garden at NYBG. He is also Institutional Conservation Officer for the Center for Plant Conservation, and he represents NYBG on the steering committee of Local 59, an organization dedicated to improving the native plant supply chain.
Previously he served for almost 13 years as Staff Horticulturist for Stonecrop Gardens in Cold Spring, NY and was Garden Manager at Rocky Hills, in Mt. Kisco, a preservation project of the Garden Conservancy. He is also an adjunct professor at Westchester Community College where he lectures on sustainability, native plant propagation and gardening with native plants.
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Liz Pulver
Liz Pulver
Liz Pulver
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Liz Pulver has practiced landscape architecture since 1997, working with national and international leaders in the industry. Her experiences with West 8, Hollander Design, Thomas Balsley Associates and David Thorne, give her unique insight into the genesis of design at varied scales from residential gardens to greenroofs to campuses and city parks. Herexperience in design-build and landscape construction, provides apractical overlay that keeps her work tied to the realities of the site andapplication. Liz is a registered landscape architect in New York and California and has begun developing a product line for small, urban gardens. She was raised in the Hudson Valley and earned her bachelor'sdegree in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University.
Learn more about Liz's work at www.lizpulverdesign.com
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Katja Patchowsky
Katja Patchowsky
Katja Patchowsky
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Katja is a seasoned landscape designer with extensive horticultural knowledge and experience. She has completed numerous residential, academic, commercial, and public realm projects both as a designer and contractor. She has more than a decade of experience using CAD for drafting and 3d modelling. Katja also has more than six years' experience working in property management giving her a strong foundation in project management, careful record keeping and client responsiveness.
Born and raised in New York City, she has a master's degree in landscape architecture and a second master's degree in sustainable landscape design and urban planning. Katja's undergraduate degree in Biology with a focus on marine science and conservation biology taught her the importance of data driven thinking and careful attention to detail. She is passionate about the building of successful, ecologically healthy outdoor spaces and the transformative power landscape architecture can have on urban design, infrastructure, and climate resiliency.
Katja is a member of the NJASLA, serving on the Annual Meeting Committee and as Speaker Committee Chair. She is also lecturer at the New York Botanical Gardens where she teaches courses on design and construction documents.
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Dmitrii Rumiantcev
Dmitrii Rumiantcev
Dmitrii Rumiantcev
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No biographical information available
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Susan Cohen
Susan Cohen
Susan Cohen
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The Program Coordinator, Susan Cohen, FASLA, RLA, is principal ofSusan Cohen Landscape Architect in Greenwich, Connecticut. She lectures and writes on landscape topics, and coordinates theLandscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series, now in its 17th year. A graduate of Smith College, Susan earned a Certificate in Landscape Design at NYBG and a BS in Landscape Architecture from City College of New York. She is a member of the Garden's Board of Advisors and has designed several exhibition gardens for NYBG. Her new book, The Inspired Landscape, is published by Timber Press.
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Michael Ruggiero
Michael Ruggiero
Michael Ruggiero
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Michael Ruggiero came to the garden in the summer of 1961 and is the former Senior Curator of Horticulture. During his time at the Garden he was responsible for the Orchid Collection, Propagation Greenhouses, Annual Displays, Plant Records, The Native Plant Garden and The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden. Along with Lynden Miller, he oversaw the preparation and Planting of the Perennial Garden: The Herb Garden with Penelope Hobhouse, the Home Gardening Center, Children's Adventure Garden and the Planning, building and planting of the Paeonia, Daylily, and Liaison Daffodil Collections. After retiring, he was Horticulturist at Matterhorn Nursery where he Built the David Austin Rose Garden and for five years designed the Macy's Flower Show. He has written articles on many diverse gardening subjects for gardening publications and has appeared on The Victory Garden, Rebecca's Garden, and with Martha Stewart. He has authored Annuals with Style, Perennial Gardening, and Reliable Roses and Spotters Guide to Wildflowers of North America.
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Melissa Finley
Melissa Finley
Melissa Finley
Thain Curator of Woody Plants
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Melissa Finley is the Thain Curator of Woody Plants at the New York Botanical Garden. She holds a Master?s of plant pathology from the Pennsylvania State University, where she researched the ability of Erwinia amylovora, the causal agent of fire blight, to parasitize apple fruit tissues. She also holds a Bachelor?s of sustainable crop and landscaping systems with an emphasis in environmental horticulture from the University of Idaho. She is an International Society of Arboriculture certified arborist and a qualified tree risk assessor. Her previous roles include: forester for the city of New York Department of Parks and Recreation, commercial arborist, and many various gardener and laboratory technician positions.
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