Dr. Tanya Quist
Tanya M. Quist is an Associate Professor in the School of Plant Sciences. She also serves a role in Cooperative Extension as Director of the University of Arizona Campus Arboretum. Her responsibilities extend statewide in providing leadership in urban horticulture but include significant commitments on campus working with a wide range of people from UA Grounds Services and Campus Planning to mentoring student interns.
Brittany Dobroslavic
B. S. Natural Resources and the Environment, Conservatin Biology Emphasis, Class of 2021
Project: Brittany has the important role of connecting the Campus Arboretum with the University staff in grounds services to ensure our tree inventory and the public/interactive is accurate online. To do this work, she must identify plants, enter them in the database, mark them on the online maps and install and maintain botanical signage. She also works with donors to coordinate installation of benches and sponsored trees and updates the mobile tours recording these special sponsored sites.
Cora Ricoy
B. S. Sustainable Plant Systems, Environmental Horticulture Emphasis, Class of 2019
Project: Cora is the leader of a group of students working together to generate and improve content for the Campus Arboretum species description pages and the Desert Landscaping site. She reviews and edits content generated by the team, researches and adds additional content where needed, coordinates meetings, provides support to students trouble shooting problems and maintains accurate records of work completed on the project. Previously, she spent a semester researching content for more than a dozen Campus Arboretum species description pages. She has gained a good mastery of plant taxonomy, morphology, can identify many campus plants, describe their botanical characteristics, ecological distribution, adaptation as well as cultural practices and ethnobotanical uses of many native and cultivated plant species.
Daniel Harmon
B. S. Sustainable Plant Systems, Controlled Environment Agriculture Emphasis, Class of 2019
Project: Daniel is part of a team dedicated to researching and updating content for the hundreds of Campus Arboretum species description pages. Each student on the team must learn about plant taxonomy, morphology and physiology well enough to describe the botanical characteristics, ecological distribution, adaptation as well as cultural practices and ethnobotanical uses of dozens of native and cultivated plant species.
Alexandra Peck
B. S. Biology, Biomedical Emphasis, Class of 2021
B. S. Plant Sciences, Class of 2021
Project: Alexandra is part of a team dedicated to researching and updating content for the hundreds of Campus Arboretum species description pages. Each student on the team must learn about plant taxonomy, morphology and physiology well enough to describe the botanical characteristics, ecological distribution, adaptation as well as cultural practices and ethnobotanical uses of dozens of native and cultivated plant species.
Adam Leon
B.S. Plant Sciences, Class of 2020
Project: Adam is working with a team of other undergraduate students who are researching and updating content for the hundreds of Campus Arboretum species desription pages. Each student on the team must learn about plant taxonomy, morphology and physiology well enough to describe the botanical characteristics, ecological distribution, adaptation as well as cultural practices and ethnobotanial uses of dozens of native and cultivated plant species.
Cora Peterson
B.S. Sustainable Plant Systems, Class of 2019
Project: Cora is part of a team dedicated to researching and updating content for the hundreds of Campus Arboretum species description pages. Each student on the team must learn about plant taxonomy, morphology and physiology well enough to describe the botanical characteristics, ecological distribution, adaptation as well as cultural practices and ethnobotanical uses of dozens of native and cultivated plant species.
John Pacheco
B.S. Sustainable Plant Systems, Agronomy emphasis, Class of 2020
Project: John is part of a team dedicated to researching and updating content for the hundreds of Campus Arboretum species description pages.Each student on the team must learn about plant taxonomy, morphology and physiology well enough to describe the botanical characteristics, ecological distribution, adaptation as well as cultural practices and ethnobotanial uses of dozens of native and cultivated plant species.
Destiny Arambul
B. S. Psychology, Class of 2021
Minor in Spanish
Project: Destiny is a Dorrance Scholar completing 20 hours of volunteer service alongside the team of arboretum students who are completing content for the hundreds of Campus Arboretum species description pages. She is also learning about plant taxonomy, morphology and physiology well enough to describe the botanical characteristics, ecological distribution, adaptation as well as cultural practices and ethnobotanical uses of dozens of native and cultivated plant species.
Anisa Maani
B. S. English, Class of 2020
Minor in Plant Sciences, Class of 2020
Project: Anisa is putting her exceptional mastery of English writing and her zeal for plant sciences to good use by editing content created for almost 100 species on the arboretum website. She is also supporting the team of students creating content for the new Desert Landscaping website.
Matthew Core
B. S. Agricultural Education, with Emphasis in Agricultural Technology and Management
Project: Matt assists in multiple tasks throughout the Arboretum from assisting with installation of signs, grounds maintenance, and communicating with the Campus GIS Database team.
Ryan Valdez
B.S. Plant Science, Class of 2020
B.A. Literacy, Learning and Leadership, Class of 2020.
Minor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Project: Ryan redesigned the arboretum mobile tour for the Environmental and Natural Resources 2 building to ensure that it is accurate, informative, and enjoyable.
Sophia Orlando
B.A. Information Science & eSociety
Project: Sophia runs the Arboretum's social media as well as creates a monthly newsletter. She also promotes the campus arboretum to local business's in the Tucson, AZ area.