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Tom Sampliner

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    Tom Sampliner

    Speaker
    2651 Kerwick Road University Heights, OH 44118
    Real name:
    Thomas Sampliner
    Email:
    tomsam265l@hotmail.com
    Phone:
    216-312-8558
    Skills:
    nature writer, photographer, lecturer and part-time instructor

    Specialty:

    Bee Orchids, Native orchids of Great Lakes region

    Presentation Topics:

    • Ophrys, the bee orchids- masters of sexual deception
    • Native Orchids of Ohio
    • Native Orchids of Michigan
    • Native Orchids of  the Great Lakes Region
    • Native orchids of rugged western China
    • Native orchids of Crete
    • Native orchids of Indonesian Borneo
    • Orchids of the Naturalist’s Paradise, the Bruce Peninsula
    • Native Orchids of Manitoba
    • Orchids of headwaters of the Mississippi
    • Orchids of Northern Thailand in their dry season
    • a comparison of the slipper orchid of N.A. versus their Asian counterparts
    • The slipper orchid of North America
    • Dry substrate orchids
    • Orchids of the Northern tier of the Appalachians (W. Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee)
    • Orchids of the Southern tier of Appalachia (N. Carolina and Arkansas)
    • Orchids of the bogs and fens
    • Green, yellow and white native orchids of North America
    • Interesting orchid traits and adaptations among North American orchids

    Providing Plants for Sale: No

    Remuneration: Travel Expenses and Speaker’s Fee

    Restrictions: Available any time of year exclusive of prior bookings. Live only Power Point presentations

    Online Presentations:  No

    Biography

    Tom retired at the millennium and has since used his time to form a mini-career as nature writer, photographer, lecturer and part-time instructor at a local community college in a seniors program. His articles and images appear in Facebook pages, journals for various nature and flower groups such as the Native Orchid Conference. He is the Past President and journal editor for: The Native Plant Soc. of N.E.Ohio; the Indoor Gardening Soc.; and a nature photography club. He volunteers for the Cleveland Botanical Garden. He speaks to many orchid societies across North America and always welcomes an opportunity to go out into the field with a local member to see native orchids in situ.

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