Join Calflora’s Executive Director Cynthia Powell to discuss new Calfl ora tools for CNPS members. Calflora’s plant database hosts over two millio n plant occurrences, some of which come directly from our CNPS Chapter memb ers. Cynthia will go over Calflora’s plant photo project, Planting Guide, p opulation monitoring tools and email alerts, and speak more generally about the uses of Calflora for CNPS chapters. She would also like to know how Ca lflora can better serve our Chapter, and looks forward to answering our que stions.
Members are encouraged to try out Calflora’s Planting Guide, at www.calflora.org/entry/palette.html, and bring your feedback to the talk .
The following Sunday, September 22, join Cynthia and our field trip chair Joerg Lohse for a rigorous and hands-on data collecting field trip a t Edgewood Park and Natural Preserve. See details on page 7 in this newslet ter’s field trip section.
After three years as Calflora’s GIS Project Manager, Cynthia Powell is now Calflora’s Executive Director. She graduate d with her BA in Biology and her MS in GIS in 2010, forecasting Mokelumne R iver water supply based on MODIS remote sensing snow pack images. She’s bee n examining what was under that snow – plants – ever since. She coordinates all Calflora programs, research, outreach and advocacy, as well as fundrai sing and management.