Powdermill Lecture Series: Cheyenne Moore

Join us for a riveting lecture series with the scientists of the Powdermill Nature Reserve, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s environmental research center. Each month, we will have an expert in their field visit the library to tell us about their research.  

March’s lecture will be with Cheyenne Moore 

Learn about the work that the Pennsylvania Plant Conservation Alliance has been doing in the state to steward and conserve our globally rare, threatened, and endangered plant species. This presentation will give an update on species with ongoing work including propagation, population genetics, intensive monitoring, and other research. We’ll review some case studies to learn about the PPCA’s approach to plant conservation and see some of the progress made, with a focus on how Powdermill Nature Reserve has been able to assist the PPCA and how they might be able to help in the future.

Speaker Bio: After earning a B.S. in Biology from Dickinson College, Cheyenne received her M.S. in Biology from Bucknell University where she worked on conservation and genetics of Pennsylvania’s threatened, rare, and endangered plant taxa. After working closely with Carnegies Museum of Natural History's Mason Heberling on invasive species ecology while at the University of Pittsburgh, she accepted her current position. She is now the Pennsylvania Plant Conservation Alliance Coordinator for the PA Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources and the PA Natural Heritage Program. In this role she facilitates the conservation of Pennsylvania’s globally rare, threatened, and endangered plants.