Contact Glenn Dreyer

Education University of California, Davis, B.S.; Connecticut College, M.A.



"Here at Connecticut College we are engaged in inventing cooperative, ecologically sensitive land management. I believe our results will be a model for other institutions." Glenn Dreyer
Glenn D. Dreyer
Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Director of the Arboretum
Executive Director, Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor of Botany

Joined Connecticut College: 1982

Specialization:
  • Vegetation management

  • Ecology and horticulture of native plants

  • Invasive exotic woody plants

  • Large and historic trees

As Arboretum Director, Glenn Dreyer oversees all department functions, including education, planning, land management, collection curation, research and fund raising. Mr. Dreyer reports to the Dean of the Faculty, and works closely with faculty and students in the life sciences and a variety of administrators, including the Director of Physical Plant and the Supervisor of Grounds.

Glenn Dreyer started working for the Connecticut College Arboretum in a landscape maintenance capacity while still a graduate student in 1982. The next year he became Assistant Arboretum Director under William A. Niering. In 1988 he was appointed Arboretum Director.

Mr. Dreyer is also an adjunct professor of botany and the executive director of the college's Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies He teaches the course "Environmental Horticulture" for the botany department. His professional and research interests have to do with the interface between horticulture and ecology. He is the author of the book Connecticut's Notable Trees.

His hobbies include playing the Great Highland bagpipe and helping his wife Wendy with her Australian Shepherd dog raising, breeding, and training program.

 

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