Dustin Wolkis
@dustinwolkis.bsky.social
Scientific Curator of Seed Conservation @ntbgarden.bsky.social, Affiliate Graduate Faculty in Botany @ U Hawaii, Deputy Chair @IUCN Seed Conservation Specialist Group. Ph.D. from @nhmdk.bsky.social. #Iamabotanist
🌺 In-depth @biographic.bsky.social article by @toughcitywriter.bsky.social on #pollen banking for plant #conservation; fun, thoughtful, with voices of 3 pollen bankers worldwide.
🌴 Pollen banking is a critical tool for conserving plant diversity.
www.biographic.com/banking-on-p...
🌴 Pollen banking is a critical tool for conserving plant diversity.
www.biographic.com/banking-on-p...
Banking on Pollen
When seed saving doesn’t work, pollen may be the answer to preserving botanical heritage.
www.biographic.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🌺 In-depth @biographic.bsky.social article by @toughcitywriter.bsky.social on #pollen banking for plant #conservation; fun, thoughtful, with voices of 3 pollen bankers worldwide.
🌴 Pollen banking is a critical tool for conserving plant diversity.
www.biographic.com/banking-on-p...
🌴 Pollen banking is a critical tool for conserving plant diversity.
www.biographic.com/banking-on-p...
👨🎓 Student research alert!
🌱 John Steinhorst's MSc work now published in @ashs-hort.bsky.social #HortScience!
🌺 Capparis sandwichiana (Maiapilo) seeds have physiological dormancy. This knowledge will help stakeholders in the conservation of this endemic Hawaiian species.
doi.org/10.21273/HOR...
🌱 John Steinhorst's MSc work now published in @ashs-hort.bsky.social #HortScience!
🌺 Capparis sandwichiana (Maiapilo) seeds have physiological dormancy. This knowledge will help stakeholders in the conservation of this endemic Hawaiian species.
doi.org/10.21273/HOR...
September 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
👨🎓 Student research alert!
🌱 John Steinhorst's MSc work now published in @ashs-hort.bsky.social #HortScience!
🌺 Capparis sandwichiana (Maiapilo) seeds have physiological dormancy. This knowledge will help stakeholders in the conservation of this endemic Hawaiian species.
doi.org/10.21273/HOR...
🌱 John Steinhorst's MSc work now published in @ashs-hort.bsky.social #HortScience!
🌺 Capparis sandwichiana (Maiapilo) seeds have physiological dormancy. This knowledge will help stakeholders in the conservation of this endemic Hawaiian species.
doi.org/10.21273/HOR...
Honored to be featured in this article!
Pleased to see this story in @biographic.bsky.social go live. Thanks to @dustinwolkis.bsky.social and @jonletman.bsky.social for taking time with me and for welcoming journalism fellows to the @ntbgarden.bsky.social Thanks to @judeisabella.bsky.social & @shannabaker.bsky.social for the wise edits.
September 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Honored to be featured in this article!
Reposted by Dustin Wolkis
The full programme for this year’s ISSS Conference is now available! Take a look at the exciting line-up of talks and workshops planned for what promises to be one of the year’s top events in hashtag#SeedScience. More information on the following link: lnkd.in/evaVjrRg
July 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The full programme for this year’s ISSS Conference is now available! Take a look at the exciting line-up of talks and workshops planned for what promises to be one of the year’s top events in hashtag#SeedScience. More information on the following link: lnkd.in/evaVjrRg
🥀 The Journal of Lost Species (JLS) is a #peer-reviewed record of the ongoing mass #extinction event.
🆓 All articles will be freely available with no publication charges.
📃 We are recruiting articles for the first issue! For info on the journal & article types visit;
www.journaloflostspecies.org
🆓 All articles will be freely available with no publication charges.
📃 We are recruiting articles for the first issue! For info on the journal & article types visit;
www.journaloflostspecies.org
JLS
The Journal of Lost Species (JLS) is a peer-reviewed record of the ongoing mass extinction event. Our goals are to advance scientific understanding of extinction, support the development of methods fo...
www.journaloflostspecies.org
July 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🥀 The Journal of Lost Species (JLS) is a #peer-reviewed record of the ongoing mass #extinction event.
🆓 All articles will be freely available with no publication charges.
📃 We are recruiting articles for the first issue! For info on the journal & article types visit;
www.journaloflostspecies.org
🆓 All articles will be freely available with no publication charges.
📃 We are recruiting articles for the first issue! For info on the journal & article types visit;
www.journaloflostspecies.org
🌺 @ntbgarden.bsky.social 's #Amorphophallus titanum ( #Araceae) named Pua Pilo ("stinky flower") featured on @hawaiinewsnow.com
🖌️ We will pollinate with collaborator #pollen, bank and reciprocate Pua Pilo's pollen.
🌱 #Metacollection in action!
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/07/17/m...
🖌️ We will pollinate with collaborator #pollen, bank and reciprocate Pua Pilo's pollen.
🌱 #Metacollection in action!
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/07/17/m...
Meet ‘Pua Pilo,’ the corpse flower about to raise a stink on Kauai
A corpse flower plant on Kauai is about to bloom for the very first time
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
🌺 @ntbgarden.bsky.social 's #Amorphophallus titanum ( #Araceae) named Pua Pilo ("stinky flower") featured on @hawaiinewsnow.com
🖌️ We will pollinate with collaborator #pollen, bank and reciprocate Pua Pilo's pollen.
🌱 #Metacollection in action!
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/07/17/m...
🖌️ We will pollinate with collaborator #pollen, bank and reciprocate Pua Pilo's pollen.
🌱 #Metacollection in action!
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/07/17/m...
Reposted by Dustin Wolkis
We're hiring! 🌱for positions in #Hawaii and #Florida. Interested in joining the NTBG team? Browse job opportunities at ntbg.org/about/jobs/ #Miami #Kauai
June 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
We're hiring! 🌱for positions in #Hawaii and #Florida. Interested in joining the NTBG team? Browse job opportunities at ntbg.org/about/jobs/ #Miami #Kauai
🌊 Out now in #Oecologia, Sensitivity to elevated salinity in coastal dune plants!
🌱 Despite growing near the ocean, Hawaiʻi’s coastal plants are highly variable in salinity tolerance, emphasizing the need for urgent conservation actions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s004...
🌱 Despite growing near the ocean, Hawaiʻi’s coastal plants are highly variable in salinity tolerance, emphasizing the need for urgent conservation actions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s004...
Sensitivity to elevated salinity in coastal dune plants - Oecologia
Coastal dune plants provide critical ecosystem and cultural services, which are severely threatened by ongoing climate change and sea-level rise. Coastal habitats account for a disproportionate extent...
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🌊 Out now in #Oecologia, Sensitivity to elevated salinity in coastal dune plants!
🌱 Despite growing near the ocean, Hawaiʻi’s coastal plants are highly variable in salinity tolerance, emphasizing the need for urgent conservation actions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s004...
🌱 Despite growing near the ocean, Hawaiʻi’s coastal plants are highly variable in salinity tolerance, emphasizing the need for urgent conservation actions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s004...
Honored and elated to receive the 2025 Center for Plant Conservation Star Award. Read more about the award and watch the video that brought tears to my eyes in the June 2025 CPC Newsletter;
saveplants.org/2025-star-aw...
Contributing to Hawaiian plant conservation is the honor of a lifetime.
saveplants.org/2025-star-aw...
Contributing to Hawaiian plant conservation is the honor of a lifetime.
2025 Star Award: Dr. Dustin Wolkis - Center for Plant Conservation
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saveplants.org
June 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Honored and elated to receive the 2025 Center for Plant Conservation Star Award. Read more about the award and watch the video that brought tears to my eyes in the June 2025 CPC Newsletter;
saveplants.org/2025-star-aw...
Contributing to Hawaiian plant conservation is the honor of a lifetime.
saveplants.org/2025-star-aw...
Contributing to Hawaiian plant conservation is the honor of a lifetime.
Reposted by Dustin Wolkis
Meet the botanist, Karolina Heyduk. She works at the University of Connecticut, where she investigates photosynthesis, the process where plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food. So why would she in the lab at midnight?
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#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
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#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
June 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Meet the botanist, Karolina Heyduk. She works at the University of Connecticut, where she investigates photosynthesis, the process where plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food. So why would she in the lab at midnight?
wp.me/pdRZhH-lY2
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
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#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Reposted by Dustin Wolkis
My new book is in press! Due out later this year (August 2025; CSIRO Publishing) but you can pre-order...
www.publish.csiro.au/book/8151/#a...
www.publish.csiro.au/book/8151/#a...
The Sceptical Botanist
Do trees talk to one another? Can a plant use up the oxygen in a room while you sleep? What is a native plant and what is a weed? Are some plants truly immortal?
Through 50 beautifully crafted essays...
www.publish.csiro.au
April 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My new book is in press! Due out later this year (August 2025; CSIRO Publishing) but you can pre-order...
www.publish.csiro.au/book/8151/#a...
www.publish.csiro.au/book/8151/#a...
🌿 Out now in @bioone.bsky.social American Fern Journal we explore #herbarium specimens as a potential source of viable spores for #conservation of rare #Hawaiian #ferns.
🔬 Germination occurred in 24 specimens representing 8 of 9 included species.
@ninaronsted.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1640/0002...
🔬 Germination occurred in 24 specimens representing 8 of 9 included species.
@ninaronsted.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1640/0002...
May 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
🌿 Out now in @bioone.bsky.social American Fern Journal we explore #herbarium specimens as a potential source of viable spores for #conservation of rare #Hawaiian #ferns.
🔬 Germination occurred in 24 specimens representing 8 of 9 included species.
@ninaronsted.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1640/0002...
🔬 Germination occurred in 24 specimens representing 8 of 9 included species.
@ninaronsted.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1640/0002...
⭐ I am honored and humbled to receive the 2025 Center for Plant #Conservation Star #Award.
🌺 This award honors those who demonstrate the concern, cooperation, and personal investment needed to conserve our imperiled native plants.
🌟 Learn more and watch the video at;
saveplants.org/about-us/cpc...
🌺 This award honors those who demonstrate the concern, cooperation, and personal investment needed to conserve our imperiled native plants.
🌟 Learn more and watch the video at;
saveplants.org/about-us/cpc...
May 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
⭐ I am honored and humbled to receive the 2025 Center for Plant #Conservation Star #Award.
🌺 This award honors those who demonstrate the concern, cooperation, and personal investment needed to conserve our imperiled native plants.
🌟 Learn more and watch the video at;
saveplants.org/about-us/cpc...
🌺 This award honors those who demonstrate the concern, cooperation, and personal investment needed to conserve our imperiled native plants.
🌟 Learn more and watch the video at;
saveplants.org/about-us/cpc...
🌱 #Postdoc opportunity in the #Conservation and Sustainable #Horticulture Lab (myweb.fiu.edu/akhoddam/res...) within the International Center for Tropical Botany at the Kampong (environment.fiu.edu/ictb/) @fiu.bsky.social
✏️ Apply to #Job Opening ID 534749 at careers.fiu.edu by June 10, 2025.
✏️ Apply to #Job Opening ID 534749 at careers.fiu.edu by June 10, 2025.
Research – Conservation & Sustainable Horticulture Lab
myweb.fiu.edu
May 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
🌱 #Postdoc opportunity in the #Conservation and Sustainable #Horticulture Lab (myweb.fiu.edu/akhoddam/res...) within the International Center for Tropical Botany at the Kampong (environment.fiu.edu/ictb/) @fiu.bsky.social
✏️ Apply to #Job Opening ID 534749 at careers.fiu.edu by June 10, 2025.
✏️ Apply to #Job Opening ID 534749 at careers.fiu.edu by June 10, 2025.
🗞️Check out my popular article in "The Bulletin: The Newsletter of the @ntbgarden.bsky.social"
🌱I discuss a multi-strategy approach to conserving Hawaiian seeds by highlighting 5 different groups of species; #Metrosideros, #Pritchardia, #Hibiscus, #Melicope, #Campanulaceae.
ntbg.org/stories/savi...
🌱I discuss a multi-strategy approach to conserving Hawaiian seeds by highlighting 5 different groups of species; #Metrosideros, #Pritchardia, #Hibiscus, #Melicope, #Campanulaceae.
ntbg.org/stories/savi...
Exploring NTBG's Multi-Strategy Approach to Saving Hawaiian Seeds - National Tropical Botanical Garden
By Dr. Dustin Wolkis, Scientific Curator of Seed Conservation One of NTBG’s core activities is […]
ntbg.org
April 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
🗞️Check out my popular article in "The Bulletin: The Newsletter of the @ntbgarden.bsky.social"
🌱I discuss a multi-strategy approach to conserving Hawaiian seeds by highlighting 5 different groups of species; #Metrosideros, #Pritchardia, #Hibiscus, #Melicope, #Campanulaceae.
ntbg.org/stories/savi...
🌱I discuss a multi-strategy approach to conserving Hawaiian seeds by highlighting 5 different groups of species; #Metrosideros, #Pritchardia, #Hibiscus, #Melicope, #Campanulaceae.
ntbg.org/stories/savi...
Reposted by Dustin Wolkis
🦎 Are you a master's or PhD student ? 🎓
The 2025 Graduate Researchers Award will provide 💰 2x€5,000 prizes highlighting research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. 🧬
Learn more 🔗 gbif.link/gra-2025
The 2025 Graduate Researchers Award will provide 💰 2x€5,000 prizes highlighting research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. 🧬
Learn more 🔗 gbif.link/gra-2025
April 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🦎 Are you a master's or PhD student ? 🎓
The 2025 Graduate Researchers Award will provide 💰 2x€5,000 prizes highlighting research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. 🧬
Learn more 🔗 gbif.link/gra-2025
The 2025 Graduate Researchers Award will provide 💰 2x€5,000 prizes highlighting research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. 🧬
Learn more 🔗 gbif.link/gra-2025
Laulea Miike's #pollen #conservation #internship
@ntbgarden.bsky.social helps preserve the endangered plant species, Ochrosia kauaiensis ( #Apocynaceae ), on Kauaʻi!
news.willamette.edu/library/2025...
@willametteu.bsky.social
@ntbgarden.bsky.social helps preserve the endangered plant species, Ochrosia kauaiensis ( #Apocynaceae ), on Kauaʻi!
news.willamette.edu/library/2025...
@willametteu.bsky.social
Student research helps preserve endangered plant species on Kaua’i
With funding and faculty support from Willamette, Laulea Miike BS’27 conducts essential conservation research on her home island.
news.willamette.edu
April 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Laulea Miike's #pollen #conservation #internship
@ntbgarden.bsky.social helps preserve the endangered plant species, Ochrosia kauaiensis ( #Apocynaceae ), on Kauaʻi!
news.willamette.edu/library/2025...
@willametteu.bsky.social
@ntbgarden.bsky.social helps preserve the endangered plant species, Ochrosia kauaiensis ( #Apocynaceae ), on Kauaʻi!
news.willamette.edu/library/2025...
@willametteu.bsky.social
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Probit analysis is key to modelling seed viability loss over time. A new Methods paper in #SeedScienceResearch led by @dustinwolkis.bsky.social provides R code for fitting survival curves and assessing seed longevity under different storage conditions! #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Seed longevity: analysing post-storage germination data in R to fit the viability equation | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core
Seed longevity: analysing post-storage germination data in R to fit the viability equation
doi.org
April 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Probit analysis is key to modelling seed viability loss over time. A new Methods paper in #SeedScienceResearch led by @dustinwolkis.bsky.social provides R code for fitting survival curves and assessing seed longevity under different storage conditions! #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Reposted by Dustin Wolkis
Contrary to popular belief, pollen is quite alive. Dr. Wolkis explains this and other botanical misconceptions while documenting his journey from apothecary to seed conservation.
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Dustin Wolkis: the "kuleana" of working with the native Hawaiian Flora
Botany One interviews Dr Dustin Wolkis, a passionate for seed conservation working in one of the most biodiverse yet...
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March 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Contrary to popular belief, pollen is quite alive. Dr. Wolkis explains this and other botanical misconceptions while documenting his journey from apothecary to seed conservation.
Read more:
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Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
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My new book, The Forbidden Garden is out in the US this week. It’s the true story of the botanists who worked at the world’s first seed bank during the siege of Leningrad. A lovely review from the NYT today describes it as ‘ethically haunted’: t.co/risSuDm2Qt
October 16, 2024 at 7:20 PM
My new book, The Forbidden Garden is out in the US this week. It’s the true story of the botanists who worked at the world’s first seed bank during the siege of Leningrad. A lovely review from the NYT today describes it as ‘ethically haunted’: t.co/risSuDm2Qt
Reposted by Dustin Wolkis
Be sure to check out this interview with NTBG's very own @dustinwolkis.bsky.social on his passion for seed conservation and research. Great interview!
Introducing Dr. Dustin Wolkis and his vital work preserving Hawaii's endemic seeds. With 90% of local plants found nowhere else and extinction rates soaring, his research on seed longevity offers hope.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Read more: wp.me/pdRZhH-lKY
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Read more: wp.me/pdRZhH-lKY
March 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Be sure to check out this interview with NTBG's very own @dustinwolkis.bsky.social on his passion for seed conservation and research. Great interview!
Reposted by Dustin Wolkis
My latest interview for @botany.one features the amazing work by @dustinwolkis.bsky.social in Hawaiʻi.
By working on seed germination and conservation, Dustin aims to fulfil his personal duty of preserving one of the most diverse islands worldwide #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 botany.one/2025/03/dust...
By working on seed germination and conservation, Dustin aims to fulfil his personal duty of preserving one of the most diverse islands worldwide #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 botany.one/2025/03/dust...
Dustin Wolkis: the "kuleana" of working with the native Hawaiian Flora
Botany One interviews Dr Dustin Wolkis, a passionate for seed conservation working in one of the most biodiverse yet endangered islands.
botany.one
March 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
My latest interview for @botany.one features the amazing work by @dustinwolkis.bsky.social in Hawaiʻi.
By working on seed germination and conservation, Dustin aims to fulfil his personal duty of preserving one of the most diverse islands worldwide #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 botany.one/2025/03/dust...
By working on seed germination and conservation, Dustin aims to fulfil his personal duty of preserving one of the most diverse islands worldwide #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 botany.one/2025/03/dust...
🎨🔬The intersection of #art & #science gives me #PlantJoy!
🌱We are using Bidens torta (#Asteraceae) seeds to test hypotheses about speciation and loss of dispersibility.
🖌️Botanical Illustrator Veronica Fannin drew seeds to showcase native Hawaiian seed diversity.
earthartmagic.love #SeedScience
🌱We are using Bidens torta (#Asteraceae) seeds to test hypotheses about speciation and loss of dispersibility.
🖌️Botanical Illustrator Veronica Fannin drew seeds to showcase native Hawaiian seed diversity.
earthartmagic.love #SeedScience
March 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
🎨🔬The intersection of #art & #science gives me #PlantJoy!
🌱We are using Bidens torta (#Asteraceae) seeds to test hypotheses about speciation and loss of dispersibility.
🖌️Botanical Illustrator Veronica Fannin drew seeds to showcase native Hawaiian seed diversity.
earthartmagic.love #SeedScience
🌱We are using Bidens torta (#Asteraceae) seeds to test hypotheses about speciation and loss of dispersibility.
🖌️Botanical Illustrator Veronica Fannin drew seeds to showcase native Hawaiian seed diversity.
earthartmagic.love #SeedScience