Welcome UW Students! Make time in your busy schedule to get involved at the Botanic Gardens*. You won’t regret the investment because not only will you gain experience but you will also make connections with professionals and fellow students.

Ways to get involved:

• Apply for Volunteer Positions
• Watch for activities on Earth day and Bio blitz
• Drop in on a regularly scheduled work party
• Register for an internship, independent study and directed fieldwork (SEFS 601, ESRM 399, LIS 590 MUS 583)
• Do your capstone project here
• Fulfill service learning requirements

What we do:

• environmental horticulture
• restoration ecology
• public garden management
• collection development
• information management
• communication & social networking
• marketing
• curriculum design
• archives
• curation
• arboriculture
• urban ecology
• environmental education
• integrated pest management
• rare plant conservation
• continuing education
• visitor experience & interpretation
• inventory ground-truthing & GIS mapping
• surveying

*UW Botanic Gardens has two sites: the Washington Park Arboretum and the Center for Urban Horticulture and includes the Miller Library and Hyde Herbarium. Programs include continuing education for adults, outdoor programs for children plus conservation and restoration projects.