Agency Sponsor: Sylvie Childress, schildre@ucsc.edu
If interested, submit the Internship Interest Form: Plant Conservation in the UCSC Greenhouses. A $300 stipend is provided.
# of Interns:
- Fall 2025: Hosting 1-3 interns enrolling in ENVS 84
- Winter 2026: Hosting 1-3 interns enrolling in ENVS 84
- Spring 2026: Hosting 1-3 interns enrolling in ENVS 84
- Summer 2026: Hosting 1-3 interns enrolling in ENVS 84
- Note: Students interested in senior internship or upper-division internship should complete 2-unit internship first and discuss possibilities with agency staff. This is an unpaid internship.
Agency Description:
UCSC Greenhouses grow plants for campus research and instructional needs. Sometimes we contract with external groups to grow rare plants for restoration or seed amplification, and this creates an opportunity for students to get involved in meaningful plant conservation while learning horticultural techniques and some introductory botany skills.
Intern Responsibilities:
Interns will assist greenhouse staff with all aspects of growing plants for restoration, seed amplification, or course instruction. This may include sowing seeds, transplanting seedlings, fertilizing, manipulating growing environments, scouting for plant pests, cleaning seeds, and more!
Intern Shifts:
Shifts will depend on when a full cohort of students have overlapping availability. Students will let me know their availability in the application form, and from that I will select a group of people with the same block of time open.
Location: Most internship meetings take place at the Jean H. Langenheim Greenhouses on the rooftop of the Thimann Labs building. We may have an occasional off campus field trip (approximately 1 per quarter).
Key Words: Biodiversity Conservation, Ecology/Natural History, Plants/Restoration