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Sir Peter Crane FRS (born 18 July 1954) is the current President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and Senior Research Scientist in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.
Peter Crane’s work focuses on the diversity of plant life: its origin and fossil history, current status, and conservation and use. He served as the Carl W. Knobloch Jr., Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (now the Yale School of the Environment) from 2009 until 2016.
May 1, 2013 · Revered for its beauty and its longevity, the ginkgo is a living fossil, unchanged for more than 200 million years. Botanist Peter Crane, who has a written what he calls a biography of this unique tree, talks to Yale Environment 360 about the inspiring history and cultural significance of the ginkgo.
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Peter Crane is President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia, an estate of Rachel Lambert Mellon that includes an exquisite garden as well as an exceptional library focused on the history of plant science, plant exploration, and the development of gardens and landscape design.
Peter Crane is President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia. He joined Oak Spring after seven years as Dean of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies - the Yale environment school.
Oct 4, 2023 · They almost went extinct. Then they have this renewal that comes from their association with humans,” says Peter Crane, author of the book Ginkgo and one of the world’s foremost Ginkgo experts.
Peter Crane pioneered the study of minute, previously unrecognised fossil flowers, large numbers of which have since been discovered at sites all over the world.
