Kayri Havens

Kayri Havens is an American botanist with expertise in reproductive ecology and rare, threatened, and endangered species conservation, including seed banking.[1][2][3] She is the Medard and Elizabeth Welch Director of Plant Science and Conservation at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Havens is the co-director of Project Budburst, a community science project that facilitates the collection of plant phenology observations.[1][4] In 2019, she was the recipient of the American Horticultural Society's Liberty Hyde Bailey Award for her achievements in plant conservation.[5]

Kayri Havens
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSouthern Illinois University Carbondale (B.S. and M.S.), Indiana University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Fieldsbotany, pollination, climate change, ex situ conservation
InstitutionsMissouri Botanical Garden, Chicago Botanic Garden, Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago, Loyola University Chicago
Thesis

References
  1. "Kayri Havens, Ph.D." chicagobotanic.org. Chicago Botanic Garden. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  2. Raver, Anne (9 November 2009). "A Hunt for Seeds to Save Species, Perhaps by Helping Them Move". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  3. Worland, Gayle (11 August 2003). "Seed bank saves a prairie legacy". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  4. "About Budburst". Budburst. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  5. "AHS 2019 Great American Gardeners National Award Winners" (PDF). American Horticultural Society. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
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