UCSC Greenhouses
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Sinsheimer Labs
University of California
Santa Cruz,
CA 95064
Phone: (831) 459-3485
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UCSC GREENHOUSES
RESTORATION PROGAM
Students with tree seedlings propagated from seeds collected from UCSC campus trees and grown at UCSC Greenhouses.
The UCSC Greenhouses provides an outstanding collection of plants, indoor and outdoor classrooms, and lab space for instructional use as well as facilities for plant research by the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Environmental Studies. The UCSC Greenhouses is located on the rooftops of the science buildings in the center of the UCSC campus.
UCSC Greenhouses offers opportunities for student involvement in campus restoration. We sponsor interns, independent studies projects and volunteers for various conservation efforts on campus. Our main focus involves propagating and growing the native grasses, perennials, trees and shrubs found on campus for revegetation by the land stewardship programs, campus gardeners, and construction mitigation with special emphasis on maintaining the genetic integrity of the UCSC campus ecosystem
This program is supported by the UCSC Campus Grounds Services, the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences and the Division of Social Sciences. If you are interested in doing work in this area, contact Jim Velzy at jhvelzy@ucsc.edu.
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UCSC NATURAL RESERVES
Students working with the UC Natural Reserves transplanting seedlings at the UCSC Greenhouses
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| "The University of California Natural Reserve System (NRS) is a unique assemblage of 36 protected wild land sites throughout California. The reserves encompass nearly all of the state’s major ecosystems, preserved in as undisturbed a condition as possible to support University-level research and teaching programs.
The four Natural Reserve sites that form the UC Santa Cruz unit are spread along 60 miles of the central coast: Año Nuevo Island Reserve (25 acres), Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve (4,200 acres), Fort Ord Natural Reserve (606 acres), and Younger Lagoon Reserve (73 acres). There is also a campus reserve, the UCSC Campus Natural Reserve (400 acres). Each reserve has unique research and teaching opportunities, including undergraduate internships in restoration.
The UCSC Natural Reserves offers internships in restoration throughout the year. Under the supervision of Reserve staff, student interns participate in a wide variety of tasks, including native seed collection, propagation, invasive plant removal, and re-vegetation of natural reserve lands with native plants. Much of the propagation work for this program takes place at the UCSC Greenhouses. Thousands of local native plants are grown at the UCSC Greenhouses each year through this program.
If you are interested in interning with the UCSC Natural Reserves, contact the Field Manager of Younger Lgoon Reserve, Elizabeth Howard at eahoward@ucsc.edu." |
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UCSC SITE STEWARDSHIP PROGAM
Students working with the UCSC Site Stewardship Program grow plants at UCSC Greenhouses for reestablishment on UCSC campus lands. The students in the picture to the right are doing a planting at the Marine Science Campus next to Younger Lagoon.
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| The Site Stewardship Program organizes a team of interns and volunteers to take on ecological restoration and guardianship for sensitive natural areas within the UCSC campus. The program seeks to alleviate the impact that university growth is having on the landscape of the campus. The result of past natural resource extraction and university build-out has caused habitat destruction, invasion of non-native species, and soil erosion.
Students can gain field work experience by interning with the Site Stewardship Program. Interns perform a combination of ecological restoration, public outreach, interpretation, and education. Projects interns could work on include population monitoring, vegetative mapping, invasive plant removal, native seed collection, baseline data collection, revegetation, erosion control, and developing outreach materials.
If you are interested in becoming an intern or a volunteer, please email grounds_interns@ucsc.edu. |
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