Dr. Beth Clare is a resident of Waterloo Region and a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Toronto. She will be talking about biodiversity, measurement techniques, and environmental DNA.
William Van Hemessen is an independent consultant and part-time graduate student based in Cambridge, Ontario. He has over ten years of professional experience in vegetation ecology, but for the past two years he has been studying fungal diversity for his M.Sc. at Western University. William is the editor of the Ontario Plant Press, the quarterly publication of the Field Botanists of Ontario, and has delivered numerous plant and mushroom identification workshops.