Christopher Dick
@chrisdick.bsky.social
Prof of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Michigan, plant curator at MICH, Director of E.S. George Reserve, research on trees, tropical forests; from the Allegheny Front in Pennsylvania
Thursday lab at the Mud Lake bog -- an exciting finale for a semester of field botany and marking the 60th anniversary of the "Woody Plants" class at @UMich @UMSEAS and #UMichEEB
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Thursday lab at the Mud Lake bog -- an exciting finale for a semester of field botany and marking the 60th anniversary of the "Woody Plants" class at @UMich @UMSEAS and #UMichEEB
Pleased to be hosting my earliest mentor in tropical field botany Michael Nee who will be speaking at the #MICH Herbarium tomorrow (Halloween, Friday, noon-1, Oct 31) on the "Origin of Pumpkins and Squashes". Members of the public are welcome
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Pleased to be hosting my earliest mentor in tropical field botany Michael Nee who will be speaking at the #MICH Herbarium tomorrow (Halloween, Friday, noon-1, Oct 31) on the "Origin of Pumpkins and Squashes". Members of the public are welcome
Following the fantastic #ATBC2025 meeting in Oaxaca I visited the Tree of Tule, a Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) with the world's stoutest trunk. It's highly buttressed but even after smoothing it is thicker than the largest sequoia with a smoothed diameter of 30.8 feet. #bigtrees
July 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'll be talking about hyperdominant tropical tree species at #ATBC2025 in #Oaxaca, including some recent work on Eschweilera coriacea, which despite being possibly the most common tropical tree in the world (~5 billion trees in the Amazon basin) can be hard to identify and is poorly studied.
June 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Thais Vasconcelos @tvasconcelos.bsky.social will be the new Director of the Univ. of Michigan Herbarium starting in January -- and the first woman to fill this role in our herbarium's >100 year history. Congrats Thais!
December 21, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Thais Vasconcelos @tvasconcelos.bsky.social will be the new Director of the Univ. of Michigan Herbarium starting in January -- and the first woman to fill this role in our herbarium's >100 year history. Congrats Thais!
Osculate is a literary word meaning to kiss. Inosculate is when two trees accidentally become grafted to each other and exchange sap. Our #WoodyPlants class found this pair of osculating maple trees near Milan— note the smaller tree is so well fed that its trunk is larger above the graft. #botany
November 20, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Osculate is a literary word meaning to kiss. Inosculate is when two trees accidentally become grafted to each other and exchange sap. Our #WoodyPlants class found this pair of osculating maple trees near Milan— note the smaller tree is so well fed that its trunk is larger above the graft. #botany
And in local news, deer-vehicle collisions are skyrocketing ever since Ann Arbor's City Council tabled the city's deer management program. The map below shows deer-vehicle crashes in 2023. #A2council
November 17, 2024 at 1:34 PM
And in local news, deer-vehicle collisions are skyrocketing ever since Ann Arbor's City Council tabled the city's deer management program. The map below shows deer-vehicle crashes in 2023. #A2council
Introducing 3R11L, a Blanding's turtle first marked by a U-Mich grad student in 1954 and recaptured 70 times since. She is 94 years old and laid 11 eggs this summer. She resides at the E.S. George Reserve, near Ann Arbor, Michigan. Pictures courtesy of Justin Congdon & Matt Cross
November 16, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Introducing 3R11L, a Blanding's turtle first marked by a U-Mich grad student in 1954 and recaptured 70 times since. She is 94 years old and laid 11 eggs this summer. She resides at the E.S. George Reserve, near Ann Arbor, Michigan. Pictures courtesy of Justin Congdon & Matt Cross