Monday, August 23, 2010

Plant Records Assistant - Volunteer

Organization: University of Washington Botanic Gardens

Location: Washington Park Arboretum

The Arboretum Curation Office maintains a records center for all plant specimens in the collection. This information serves as the primary resource for collection curation, interpretation, management and planning. This is an exceptional opportunity to ‘dig deeper’ and become more familiar with the largest woody plant collection in the region.

Position Description:
Volunteers’ time is divided in roughly equal parts between indoor and outdoor tasks, year round.
• Outdoor activities include field inventory of specified collection areas, specimen condition verification and plant label placement. Inclement weather is taken into consideration with field work.
• Indoor activities include computer data entry, records research and collection map editing.

Skills:
• Sharp attention to detail.
• Be comfortable working with Excel as it is one of the two major computer programs you’ll be using. The other program is BG-Base which you will be trained on. Both programs are Windows based.
• The ability to read maps and navigate in the field.

Hours:
Thursday & Friday, 12:00 to 5:00 p.m., 3-4 hours/week minimum.

Contact:
Randall Hitchin at 206-616-1118 or rch@uw.edu