Andrew L. Hipp

Andrew L. Hipp

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Andrew L. Hipp is herbarium director and senior scientist in plant systematics at the Morton Arboretum as well as lecturer at the University of Chicago. Hipp’s creative work has appeared in Arnoldia, Scientific American, International Oaks: The Journal of the International Oak Society, Places Journal, and his natural history blog, A Botanist’s Field Notes. He is the author of Field Guide to Wisconsin Sedges and sixteen children’s books on a variety of natural history topics.

Latest articles by Andrew L. Hipp

a photo of an angel oak tree

'Rising temperatures melted corpses out of the Antarctic permafrost': The rise of one of Earth's most iconic trees in an uncertain world

By Andrew L. Hipp published

As the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today's oaks may have been straddling the continents of the Northern Hemisphere. If so, the ancestor of the oaks we know today was a widespread population that was cleaved in half as North America inched westward.

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