2021 ASHS Student Poster Presentation

Poster Title:

Using Horticultural Living Collections for Student Service Learning and Civic Engagement Around Climate Change.

Abstract:

As an existential threat to humanity, climate change is a growing problem with disproportionate effects worldwide. Impacts are concentrated in urban settings, where urban horticulture is available as a tool to mitigate local and regional climate impacts. As people understand, select and care for plants in urban settings, they are empowered to  create landscapes that combat climate change, and generate an array of ecosystem services that support people, profit, and planet.  The University of Arizona,  located in the American Southwest where climate impacts are disproportionately felt, is a Land Grant Institution, that includes a Campus Arboretum comprised of diverse landscape plants selected for their adaptation to aridity. Further, it also includes a collection of desert succulents in protected cultivation, and access to a collection of sub-tropical woody plants through partnership with the Biosphere2. The incredible diversity of plants available for study through these three collections provides opportunity to complement and deepen undergraduate classroom learning, while also  extending this knowledge through service learning. Through these opportunities, both students and community members become equipped to use horticultural knowledge as a tool for tackling climate change.

Watch the Video Recording of William's Poster Presentation at the 2021 ASHS Conference. 

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