Island Lectures Series features PEI botanist Kate MacQuarrie
Award-winning botanist, naturalist, and author Kate MacQuarrie will give a talk titled 鈥淭he Wild Side of PEI鈥� on November 18, 2025, at 7 pm, in the Faculty Lounge (Room 201), SDU Main Building, UPEI.
MacQuarrie鈥檚 talk is part of the Institute of Island Studies鈥� 2025 Island Lecture Series. The lecture is free, and all are welcome.
Prince Edward Island is known as the 鈥渕illion-acre farm鈥� and 鈥淐anada鈥檚 food island,鈥� but there is so much more to the province than farming and fishing! In this illustrated presentation, MacQuarrie will take the audience on a tour of some of PEI鈥檚 best remaining natural landscapes鈥攆rom iconic coastal sand dunes and red sandstone cliffs to wetlands, ancient peat bogs, and old growth forests.
MacQuarrie has more than 30 years of experience working with the plants, wildlife, and natural history of PEI. In addition to her role as director of PEI鈥檚 Forests, Fish, and Wildlife division, she runs PEI Untamed, a business dedicated to helping people learn, explore, and reconnect with the natural world around them. She has conducted research in the province鈥檚 upland hardwood forests and coastal sand dunes, found plants not previously known to exist on the Island, published papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals, and has just published her first book, Wild Foods of Prince Edward Island, with Acorn Press. She is currently working on another book due to be published in the fall of 2026.
For more information, contact Bren Simmers at 902-566-0386 or ispstaff@upei.ca.
