Contact Info

Christopher R. Hardy, Ph.D.
Keeper of the Herbarium,
Assistant Professor &
Biology Club Advisor
(click name to see Dr. Hardy's profile)

Department of Biology
Millersville University
288 Roddy Hall
50 E. Frederick St.
Millersville, PA 17551, USA

Phone: (717) 871-2312
Fax: (717) 872-3905
christopher.hardy[at]millersville.edu

Services

Specimen Holdings for Local Taxonomic & Floristic Studies
Specimen Repository for Plant Occurrence Records
Botanical Library
Plant Identification
Botanical Forensics
Horticultural Consultation

Herbarium Associates

Nazli W. Hardy, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Parks Herbarium Associate & Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Millersville University
132 Roddy Hall
Interests: Biodiversity informatics, Network security, Internet education,

Howard Miller
Parks Herbarium Associate
James C. Parks Herbarium
Millersville University
288 Roddy Hall
Interests: Grape systematics, Viticulture

News (students in boldface)

Nov: Dr. Hardy is giving a demonstration of Wiki-Plant-Atlas to the Muhlenberg Botanical Society at the North Museum (19 Nov 2009; 7:30 pm).

Oct: The Herbarium/Botany Program's Coconut Exhibit is on display in the Roddy-Caputo stairwell area. The living coconut palm is 2 years old.

Jul: Ms. Lindsey Sloat (Biology '06) has had an article based on her Departmental Honors Thesis published in the July issue of American Journal of Botany. See an abstract of the article about dayflower development and ecology here, at the journal's Advance Access site.

Jun: The Herbarium is helping to sponsor the 2009 Native Plants in the Landscape Conference @ Millersville (brouchure, website).

May: Mr. Dan Yoder (B.Sc. candidate) has started his fieldwork for his project on the systematics and cultivation of wild grapes. In support of this work he has received grants from the Office of Graduate & Professional Studies as well as Howard Miller & Associates. Highlights of his fieldwork include a trip to the Carolinas and Georgia to collected wild grapes.

Apr: Mr. Jason Ryndock (Biology '08) has submitted a manuscript with Dr. Hardy for review for publication with the journal Botanical Review. The manuscript is titled Morphology and Organogenesis of the Flowers in Tinantia pringlei, a Mexican spiderwort.

Apr: Ms. Sara Helm (former Biology B.Sc) has accepted a job with Longwood Gardens to identify and inventory their native plants collection. She will be using her plant identification skills obtained in Plant Systematics (BIOL 325).

Apr: Dr. Hardy presented the newly released Wiki-Plant-Atlas to botanists at the 2009 Rare Plant Forum held Apr 4 at Bald Eagle State Park, Pennsylvania.

Mar: Dr. Hardy presented a lecture on Forensic Botany to the 2009 Forensic Chemistry class (CHEM 486) at Millersville.

Mar: Dr. Hardy presented a lecture on the systematics and ethnobotany of coffee to Dr. Wallace's General Biology class (BIOL 100) at Millersville.

Feb: Dr. Hardy gave an invited seminar entitled Notes on the Natural History and Evolution of the Cape Flora, Southern Africa. (26 Feb 2009, Philadelphia Botanical Club, Philadelphia.)

Jan: Dr. Hardy presented Some Aspects of Ancestor Reconstruction for the Study of Floral Assembly to the Floral Assembly Group at the National Evolutioanry Synthesis Center in Durham, North Carolina (7 Jan 2009). A printable copy of the presentation is here: Hardy-presentation.

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Welcome to

The Millersville University
Tree Atlas
version 2008.01, a product of the James C. Parks Herbarium

Here is the culmination of two years worth of collections and mapping of specimens of trees in cultivation on the grounds of Millersville University.
Work was carried out by students of Dr. Hardy's Plant Systematics course (BIOL 325).
This is an ongoing collaborative effort on the part of MU students under the auspices of the Herbarium and Drs. Chris Hardy (Biology) and Nazli Hardy (Computer Science).
The atlas marks the location, size, and herbarium vouchers of some 2000 trees on MU's campus.
If you click on the Atlas File, the atlas will open automatically in Google Earth. If not, you will have to download Google Earth free from the Google Earth Website.