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Joan Maloof's Lectures

Joan Maloof is available to give lectures (with images or without) and guided nature experiences. Please contact Joan (joan@oldgrowthforest.net) to discuss available dates and necessary support. Thank you!

2023

  • Virtual: Master Gardeners of Hunterdon County, NJ

  • In person: Hillsmere Garden Club & Bird Club, MD

  • Virtual: Howard County Conservancy, MD

  • Virtual: Save Public Forests Coalition - Logging for Wildlife Habitat

  • Virtual: Bexley Library, Ohio. Special Arbor Celebration

  • In person: Town Hall, Seattle, WA.

  • In person: Missoula Public Library, MT.

  • In person: Princeton Library, Princeton NJ.

  • In person: Annual Quittapahilla Audubon Society banquet, Lebanon PA.

  • Virtual: StopClearcutting CA, Forest Protection Forum, Sierra Club.

  • In person: Four Rivers Garden Club - Anne Arundel Co., MD.

  • In person:  Delaware Horticultural Society, DE.

  • In person: Chester Ridley Crum Watersheds Association, Glen Mills, PA.

  • In person: Presentation to Selectboard of Cambridge, VT.

  • In person: Eastern Old-Growth Conference - Moultonborough, NH.

  • Virtual: University of Delaware Tree Club (Osher Lifelong Learning), DE.

2022

  • Virtual Talk: Bowman Hill Wildflower Preserve (PA)

  • Virtual Talk: Friends of White's Woods (PA)

  • Virtual Talk: Oregon Chapter Sierra Club Forest Team (OR)

  • In Person Talk: Celebrating Olmsted & Old-Growth Forests (CT)

  • In Person Talk: Old Growth Forests with Joan Maloof (CT)

  • In Person and Virtual Talk: The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Wooster, OH

  • In Person Talk: Friends of Wooster Memorial Park (OH)

  • In Person Talk: College of Wooster Biology and Environmental Studies Programs (OH)

  • In Person Talk: Coyote Run (OH)

  • In Person Talk: Brown Family Environmental Center (OH)

  • In Person Talk: University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, MD

  • In Person Talk: Bolton Hill Garden Club, Baltimore, MD

  • In Person Talk: Gwynns Falls Leakin Park, Baltimore, MD

  • In Person Talk: College Lodge Chautauqua Institute (NY)

  • In Person Talk: Forest Tour Leolyn Woods (NY)

  • In Person Talk; Catskills Environmental Research and Monitoring Conference (NY)

  • In Person Talk: Tree Time with Joan Maloof, Southampton, NY

  • In Person Talk: The Importance of Old-Growth Forests with Dr. Joan Maloof and Dr. Carl Safina, Southampton, NY

2021

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Rockbridge Area Conservation Council (RACC) (VA)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Mt Vernon Women’s Club in Baltimore (MD)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Mt. Cuba Center (DE)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Huntington Conservation Commission, Huntington, VT

  • VIRTUAL TALK: American Museum of Natural History Volunteers (NY)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) (MD)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Salisbury University Seminar (MD)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Apalachee Audubon: Pines to Palms: Celebrating Wakulla County, Florida’s Community Forests with Apalachee Audubon (FL)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Authors and Artists Festival (MA)

  • VIRTUAL TALK:  Homeland Garden Club, Timonium (MD)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Toledo Naturalists Association (OH)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: OREGON WILD (OR)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Northern Neck Audubon (VA)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: 2021 Convention of the Garden Club Federation of PA

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Convocation at Bethany College (WV)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: NJ Highlands Coalition Webinar (NJ)

  • VIRTUAL EVENT: Celebrity Check In (VA)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Toward a New Way of Being with Plants Conference (CA)

  • VIRTUAL EVENT: Joan Maloof Interviews Suzanne Simard, Free Library of Philadelphia (PA)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Honoring the Ancients: Old Growth Forests and the Sipsey Wilderness with Sarah Horsley and Janice Barrett (AL)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Sierra Club Wildlands And Wilderness Team (National)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Environmental Book Club, Macon County, NC Public Library (NC)

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Native Plant Society of New Jersey Fall Conference Keynote Speaker (NJ)

  • VIRTUAL PANEL: Women Explorers Club - Pathfinders Symposium Panel: Healing and Transforming the Planet (National)

 

2020

  • 2020 Keynote speaker for PennDel Chapter of ISA Tree Symposium (PA)

  • Smithsonian Gardens “Habitat” Exhibit, Washington, DC

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Irvine Nature Center, Virtual Eat, Drink and Learn Series, Owings Mills, MD

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Master Gardeners of Talbot County, MD

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Private Author’s Meet and Greet Group, VA

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Georgia ForestWatch Fall Retreat, GA

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Western New York Land Conservancy – College Lodge Forest Fundraiser (NY)

  • Greyhound Bookshop, Berlin, MD

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Oregon Ridge Nature Center Speaker Series (MD)

2019

  • Woman’s Club of Roland Park, Baltimore MD

  • Annual Blackburn Scholarship Lecture, Frelinghuysen Arboretum, Morris Township NJ

  • Northern Neck Master Naturalist Class, Lecturer, VA

  • Northern Virginia Green Festival, Keynote, Annandale VA

  • Cosmos Club, Washington DC

  • Madison Public Library, Madison NJ

  • New Jersey Forest Watch/Friends of Sparta Mountain, Sparta NJ

  • Maryland Native Plant Society, Silver Spring MD

  • Patagonia: “Hiking Oregon’s Ancient Forests” with Chandra LeGue, Portland OR

  • Bookplate Bookstore, Chestertown MD

  • Maryland Native Plant Society Fall Conference, Silver Spring MD

  • James Madison University, Edith J. Carrier Arboretum, “Wine In The Trees”, Harrisonburg VA

  • Trinity College, “Forests for Life, for Beauty, for Spirit”, Hartford CT

  • Film screening, "The Lost Forests of New England”, Panelist, Simsbury Public Library, Simsbury CT

  • Doylestown Bookshop, Doylestown PA

2018

  • Sprig and Twig Garden Club, Dover DE

  • East Tennessee State University, Johnson City TN

  • University of Marinette, Marinette WI

  • University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point WI

  • Virginia United Land Trusts (VaULT), Richmond VA

  • Ocean City Lifesaving Museum, Ocean City MD

  • Gibson Island Garden Club, Gibson Island MD

  • Smith College, Northampton MA

  • Longfellow Books, Portland ME

  • Longwood Gardens, Shirley Meniece Horticulture Conference, keynote, Kennett Square PA

  • Royal Oak Garden Club, Royal Oak MD

  • Haverford College & Hardy Plant Society, Haverford PA

  • Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges Annual Meeting, keynote, Marion OH

  • Richmond Free Library, Richmond VT

  • Harvard Mycological Club, Farlow Herbarium, Cambridge MA

  • Lancaster Town and Country Garden Club, Lancaster PA

  • Horticulture Society of Maryland, Cylburn Arboretum, Baltimore MD

  • Annapolis Horticultural Society, Annapolis MD

  • Urban & Community Forestry Partnership, Waynesboro VA

 

2017
 

  • The Ethician Foundation, Huntsville TX

  • Arnold Arboretum, Cambridge MA

  • Pendle Hill, Wallingford PA

  • Emory University, GA, “Atlanta’s Priceless Forest”, Atlanta GA

  • Wild ‘n Woolley, Georgia Forest Watch Annual Meeting, Dahlonega GA

  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Carbon Group, Greenbelt MD

  • Toast to the Trees, Indiana Forest Alliance Annual Event, Indianapolis IN

  • Cylburn Arboretum, Baltimore MD

  • Master Naturalists Annual Meeting, College Park MD

  • San Diego County Library, Fallbrook CA

  • Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston MA

  • Mountain Laurel Garden Club, McHenry MD

  • Anne Arundel County Master Gardeners, Annapolis MD

  • Busboys and Poets Bookstore, for American Forests, Washington DC

  • Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards, Charlottesville VA

  • Environmental Studies Colloquium, College Park MD

  • Ivy Bookstore, Baltimore MD

  • Broadmead, Cockeysville MD

  • Climate Reckoning Conference, Harvard, Cambridge MA

  • Trees New York, New York NY

  • Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia PA


2016

 

  • Washington and Jefferson University, Washington PA

  • Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD

  • Central Ohio Urban Forestry Conference, Denison, Granville OH

  • The Garden Club of Virginia, Blacksburg VA,

  • Sweet Briar College, Julia B. Waster Environmental Forum, Sweet Briar VA

  • Wicomico Garden Club, Salisbury MD

  • Washington College, Sandbox Gallery, Chestertown MD

  • Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA

  • Pocahontas Chapter of Virginia Native Plant Society, Richmond VA

  • Whallonsburg Grange, Whallonsburg NY

  • Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Milton DE

  • Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely MD

  • Earthcare Conference, “The Sense of Wonder… in a Time of Crisis”, Ashfield MA


2015

 

  • Western Maryland Garden Club, Deep Creek MD

  • Wildflower Pilgrimage, Arc of Appalachia, Bainbridge OH

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC

  • Piedmont Landscape Conference, Charlottesville VA

  • Ohio Tree Care Conference, Dayton OH

  • Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown NY


2014

 

  • Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY

  • Audubon Naturalist Society, Chevy Chase MD

  • Tree Stewards “Historic Forests” panel, Charlottesville VA

  • Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA

  • Blacksburg Public Library, Blacksburg VA

  • Master Gardner’s of Talbot County, Easton MD

  • Watershed Stewards Academy Conference, Millersville MD

  • Maryland Native Plant Society, Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely MD

  • “Midday with Dan Rodricks” WYPR, Baltimore MD

  • Fallbrook Land Conservancy, Fallbrook CA


2013
 

  • Recreational Tree Climbers International, Atlanta GA

  • Brenau University, Gainesville GA

  • Flora Quest, Lakeside OH

  • Washington College, Chestertown MD

  • Juniata Valley Audubon Society, Altoona PA

  • University of Delaware, Dover DE

  • Baltimore Forestry Board, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold MD

  • Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Kahului HI


2012

 

  • Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater MD

  • Wetlands Institute, Cape May NJ

  • Penn State, Altoona PA

  • Smith College, Northampton MA

  • SUNY Cortland, Cortland NY

  • Longwood Gardens, Chadds Ford PA

  • State Arboretum of Virginia, Boyce VA

  • Irvine Nature Center, Owings Mills MD

  • Cornell Plantations, William J. Hamilton Memorial Lecture, Ithaca NY

  • Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Keynote Speaker, Cleveland OH

  • Eastern Native Tree Society, Cook Forest PA

  • Penn State, State College PA

  • Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely MD

  • St. Mary's College of Maryland, Invited Speaker for "VOICES" series, St. Mary's City MD


2011

 

  • Brookside Gardens, Wheaton MD

  • U.S. Botanic Garden, Washington DC

  • Maryland Native Plant Society, Kensington MD

  • U.S. National Arboretum, Washington DC

  • Virginia Native Plant Society, Alexandria VA

  • Eastern Native Tree Society, Florence MA

  • Santa Fe's Fifteen Club, Santa Fe NM

  • Belmont University, Nashville TN                                              

  • Philadelphia Flower Show, Philadelphia PA

  • Washington Academy of Science, Washington DC       

  • Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY

  • Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Easton MD

  • Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Bloomington IN

  • Forest Summit Conference, Holyoke MA

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