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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Please join us for this week’s Herbarium Lunch seminar, at which we are excited to host:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Elise Gornish<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Let’s not reinvent the wheel: Using VERY old school strategies for cheap and easy restoration success!</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Dr. Elise Gornish is a Cooperative Extension Specialist in Ecological Restoration at the University of Arizona. Her work largely focuses on identifying strategies for successful restoration in arid land systems
and integration of restoration approaches into weed management.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Originally from New York, Dr. Gornish received her MS and PhD from Florida State University in 2013. She then completed two years of a post doc at the University of California, Davis.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">In addition to vegetation management, Dr. Gornish is passionate about STEM inclusion and is also the Director of GALS (Girls on outdoor Adventure for Leadership and Science). GALS focuses on providing science learning
and leadership opportunities to traditionally underserved female high school students through backcountry programming.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Come hear about this important and timely topic! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Thursday, Oct 20, 12 noon, Herbarium (Herring Hall). <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For our Fall schedule, please visit <a href="https://cals.arizona.edu/herbarium/content/herbarium-lunch-talks">
this page</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking forward to seeing you all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shelley<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Shelley McMahon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Associate Professor of Practice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Director,
</span><a href="https://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">UA Herbarium</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Director,
</span><a href="https://cals.arizona.edu/desertlegumeprogram/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Desert Legume Program</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://cals.arizona.edu/spls/home"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">School of Plant Sciences</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#AA0620">University of Arizona</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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