{"id":3091,"date":"2010-08-30T13:43:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2010-08-30T13:43:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:43:34","slug":"its-getting-seedy-around-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=3091","title":{"rendered":"Its Getting Seedy Around Here"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contemplating the last 5 months working at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park<\/p><\/div>\n

Five months of collecting seeds is coming to a close.\u00a0 As I think back through the months working at the San Diego Zoo\u2019s Institute for Conservation Research, I\u2019m amazed at how much I\u2019ve experience and learned.\u00a0 Not only have I had the opportunity to learn about the plants native to Southern California\u2019s deserts, chaparral, and coastal sage scrub ecosystems, but I\u2019ve gotten to see how research is conducted at a location other than a university, and even more uniquely at a non-profit organization.\u00a0 The Applied Plant Ecology Division at the Institute has collected seeds for the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank the\u00a0 for several years.\u00a0 With a system already established, it was easy to learn the process of locating target populations, monitoring, collecting, short-term storage, and shipping.\u00a0 We completed our required 50 collections, plus several more, giving us a feeling of accomplishment.\u00a0 The long hours working in the hot blazing sun pay off when you come back with two complete collections of 10,000 seeds, one for SOS and the other for the Zoo’s seedbank.\u00a0 There have been many great adventures from the past few months that will be told over and over, making this an experience I will never forget.<\/p>\n

Sarah Brewster<\/p>\n

San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research<\/p>\n

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The San Diego Zoo's sign board describing their commitment to the conservation of native plants <\/p><\/div>\n

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The field truck with a flat tire<\/p><\/div>\n

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The seed drying room full of seeds<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five months of collecting seeds is coming to a close.\u00a0 As I think back through the months working at the San Diego Zoo\u2019s Institute for Conservation Research, I\u2019m amazed at how much I\u2019ve experience and learned.\u00a0 Not only have I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}