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Kathleen Buchholz | Administrative Assistant | Kathleen Buchholz joined the botanical garden staff in 2009 and has transformed the front office and business end of the garden into a well-organized program. Her expertise is in bookkeeping and managing our donations and income. She wears many hats from managing the GBG society membership to store inventory. Call the garden and you will meet Kathleen! |
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Tina Buxbaum | Graduate Research Assistant | Tina Buxbaum is working toward a Master's degree in Natural Resources Management. She is becoming quite proficient in catching bumble bees and other potential pollinators of bog blueberry. Her research is on the pollination biology of this important wild berry to learn methods of improving pollinators for wild stand enhancement or field cultivation for increased berry yield. She plans to finish in late 2010 or 2011. |
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Katie DiCristina | Horticulturist | Katherine DiCristina (Katie) joined the botanical garden in 2009 as horticultural assistant. She coordinates the day-to day operations of the garden and works with our staff of great garden volunteers and student interns. She is especially interested in organic horticulture and is leading research on vermicomposting and compost teas. |
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Etta Gardiner | Greenhouse Manager | Etta Gardiner is our greenhouse manager. She waters, re-pots, fertilizes, sows seeds, scrubs floors, swats fungus gnats, and basically is responsible for keeping our greenhouse in top working order. She is the backbone of our greenhouse. And our plants look stupendous! |
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Patricia Holloway | Professor of Horticulture, Director | Dr. Patricia S. Holloway (Pat) began the Georgeson Botanical Garden in 1989 and is its director as well as Professor of Horticulture, Department of High Latitude Agriculture at UAF. She is interested in everything horticulture, especially propagation and cultivation of Alaska native plants. Her main programs currently are propagating native plants from seeds and cuttings; cultivation and antioxidant identification of wild blueberries and lingonberries; and a special program on cultivation of field grown peonies for export markets. |
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Grant Matheke | Horticulturist | Grant E.M. Matheke helped develop the Garden back in 1989 and is the backbone behind the construction and landscape management of the garden. He is an expert at growing sweet corn and just about everything else from alyssum to zucchini. He designs, implements and statistically analyzes many of our research projects. He is responsible for nearly every flower bed, irrigation pipe, deck, rock wall and pathway in the garden. Look for his name on many, many publications released through the garden. |
| Rehanon Pampel | Graduate Research Assistant | Rehanon works full time at the USDA Agricultural Research Service and is completing her Master's Degree cataloging the bumble bee species found near farm fields in Alaska, and searching for Nosema in wild populations. She plans to complete her degree in late 2010 or 2011. | |
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Sean Willison | Graduate Research Assistant | Sean works full time for the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and is completing his Master's degree on seed germination of sedges for revegetation on the North Slope, Alaska at Prudhoe Bay. His work will help in management decisions for restoring old oil drllling gravel pads once wells have been capped. |
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Thomas Gallagher | Landscape Architect, Professor of Resource Planning |
Dr. Thomas (Tom) Gallagher was a Professor in the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences. He led the design team that made the first blueprints for the Garden in 1989. Tom was great at helping us envision the "big picture" and gave us the foundation upon which to develop a wonderful Garden. He now lives in Oregon and is Director of the Ford Family Foundation, Ford Institute for Community Building. |
| Janice Hanscom | Horticulturist 2000- 2009 |
Jan worked for the Garden from 2000 to 2009. She managed the day-to-day operations of the garden, worked with volunteers and developed many children's programs at the Garden. Many of her ideas and designs are now permanent fixtures of the Babula Children's Garden. She worked tirelessly with 4-H and the Junior Master Gardener Program. She retired in 2009 and is now a peony grower and continues her volunteer work for the Garden and 4-H. | |
| Patricia Wagner | Horticulturist
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Pat worked at the Garden from its beginning in 1989 and was part of the design team that developed the first garden beds and pathways. She carried out many research projects with Grant Matheke and developed the design plans and bed layouts for the annual flower display gardens. Look for her name on many publications, especially flower and vegetable variety trials. | |
The University of Alaska Fairbanks - Georgeson Botanical Garden - P.O. Box 757200 - Fairbanks, Alaska 99775 - (907)474-1944 |
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