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.
Majors
All majors are welcome to participate.
Contact
Bill Reid
billreid@ucsc.edu
Additional Details
Location: On-campus
Program Time Period: All Year, Academic Year, Summer, Winter Quarter, Spring Quarter, Fall Quarter, One Quarter
Compensation: Academic Credit, Volunteer
Application Deadline: Contact the program for more information.
Website:
http://physicalplant.ucsc.edu/plant-services/grounds/stewardship-program.html