Presentation Title:
Mast Seed Production in Conifers

Bio:
Dr. Jalene LaMontagne is the E. Desmond Lee Professor in Botanical Studies in the Department of Biology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) in collaboration with the Missouri Botanical Garden (MOBOT), and a faculty affiliate with the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at UMSL. Dr. LaMontagne is a forest ecologist, macrosystems biologist, and global change ecologist, with broad interests in the patterns and environmental drivers of synchrony and variability over space and time – and a specific focus in tree reproduction (“mast seeding”), primarily in conifer trees. Dr. LaMontagne received her B.Sc. in Ecology and MSc. in Conservation Ecology at the University of Calgary, and her PhD in Environmental Biology and Ecology at the University of Alberta. She has been studying mast seeding for nearly 25 years. Before moving to UMSL and MOBOT in 2024, she was a faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences at DePaul University in Chicago between 2011-2024, and was a founding faculty member at the Asian University for Women, the first liberal arts university for women in South Asia, located in Bangladesh in 2009-2010. 

A recording of this presentation will be available.

                       Dr. Jalene LaMontagne