Jim Dice to Speak on Botanical Research in Borrego
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Jim Dice, Reserve Manager
Jim Dice, Reserve Manager, UCI Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center, will be the January speaker as part of the Botany Society’s Public Lecture Series. He will discuss History of Botanical Research in Borrego on Monday, January 14, 2019.
Jim Dice has been Reserve Manager since the Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center opened in 2012. He retired in 2012 from California State Parks after 25 years of service with the State of California. He served as manager for San Diego State University’s Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve from 1987-88 and was Curator of the Desert Garden at Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, from 1981-1985.
Jim obtained a B.S. in Botany from San Diego State University (1981) and an M.S. degree in Biology (Systematics and Evolutionary Biology) from San Diego State University (1988).
Who: Jim Dice, Reserve Manager. UCI Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center
Topic: History of Botanical Research in Borrego
Where: UCI Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center, 401 Tilting T. Drive, Borrego Springs
When: Monday, January 14, 2019
Time: 10:00 to 11:30 AM
Cost: Free; public is invited.