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Quantifying The Carbon Stored And Sequestered By The Trees On Pomona College’S Campus, Paola A. Giron-Carson Jan 2023

Quantifying The Carbon Stored And Sequestered By The Trees On Pomona College’S Campus, Paola A. Giron-Carson

Scripps Senior Theses

We are experiencing a climate crisis that must be confronted with strategic mitigation. Pomona College contributes to the climate crisis through its emissions for which there is a baseline record. However there is no baseline record of the climate mitigation currently performed by the trees on Pomona’s campus through carbon storage. This study seeks to determine a current baseline quantity of carbon stored and sequestrated by Pomona’s trees as well as possible courses of climate mitigation for Pomona College to take. Initial information gathering was conducted through interviews with several stakeholders. This study was conducted using data collected prior to …


Island Invasion: The Silent Crisis In Hawaii, Sophia Janssen Jan 2019

Island Invasion: The Silent Crisis In Hawaii, Sophia Janssen

Pomona Senior Theses

Keeping out invasive species may, upon first review, seem like a trivial environmental cry from ecologists and deep environmentalists; a belated wish to return to an undeveloped world where nature was pristine. However invasive species create problems that impact all of us and can have far more severe consequences than changing a stunning landscape. These problems are heightened in islands like Hawaii, where the fragile ecosystems have developed over centuries of evolution and adaptation. The introduction of a disease-carrying mosquito can put the people of Hawaii at risk to many vector-born illnesses and create an epidemic, taking human life. The …


Engaging Many Minds: Nurturing Collaboration In A Steam Context, Mark Dzula Sep 2015

Engaging Many Minds: Nurturing Collaboration In A Steam Context, Mark Dzula

The STEAM Journal

This field note describes a recent interdisciplinary project facilitated by Jeremy Gercke, an art teacher at the Bishop's School in La Jolla, California. The project creates ceramic tile markers for flora around the Bishop's School campus. The markers feature QR codes linking to websites populated with student content, including: drawings, information, and oral histories. In this project, Mr. Gercke synthesizes his interests as an artist; maximizes his social connections to mentors, peers and students; and bridges disciplines to create opportunities for interdisciplinary (STEAM) inquiry.


Cultivating Resistance: Food Justice In The Criminal Justice System, Caitlin M. Watkins Apr 2013

Cultivating Resistance: Food Justice In The Criminal Justice System, Caitlin M. Watkins

Pitzer Senior Theses

This Senior Thesis in Environmental Analysis seeks to explore the ways in which certain food-oriented programs for incarcerated women and women on parole critically resist the Prison Industrial Complex and the Industrial Food System by securing social and ecological equity through the acquisition of food justice. It focuses on three case studies: the Crossroads’ Meatless Mondays program, Fallen Fruit from Rising Women: A Crossroads Social Enterprise, and Cultivating Dreams Prison Garden Project: An Organic Garden for Women in Prison. Each project utilizes food as a tool to build community, provide valuable skill sets of cooking and gardening, and educate women …


Front Matter 9(1), Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

Front Matter 9(1), Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

No abstract provided.


Contents 9(1), Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

Contents 9(1), Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

No abstract provided.


List Of Illustrations 9(1), Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

List Of Illustrations 9(1), Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

No abstract provided.


Foreword 9(1), Mildred E. Mathias Jan 1977

Foreword 9(1), Mildred E. Mathias

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

No abstract provided.


In The Beginning, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

In The Beginning, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

This article traces the early history of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, California, starting ca. 1867 with the Portolà Expedition. The expedition was the first to record the site where the botanic garden later came to be located, in Santa Ana Canyon, northeastern Orange County. Successive changes in land ownership eventually led to the Bixby family purchasing the land in 1875. Susanna Bixby Bryant, the founder of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, acquired the land in 1925.


The Awakening Years, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

The Awakening Years, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

This article sketches the horticultural climate of southern California in ca. 1900–1930, documenting a rising interest in California native plants. Influential figures in the realm of California botany and horticulture are introduced, especially Theodore Payne. Pomona College, Claremont, expresses an interest in the establishment of a botanical garden.


The Formative Years, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

The Formative Years, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Letters exchanged between Susanna Bixby Bryant, the founder of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, and several leading southern California botanists and horticulturalists (especially Ernest Braunton, Willis Linn Jepson, and Theodore Payne) in 1925–1926 document her steps toward creating a botanical garden devoted to the native California flora.


An Independent Institution, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

An Independent Institution, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Covering the period from approximately 1927 to 1947, this article deals with the management and running of the fledgling Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, featuring the publication of botanical and horticultural papers, the founding of the journal El Aliso, and detailed accounts of field work devoted to the collection of plants for the living collection and herbarium. This period of time also saw several challenges, notably serious damage from a wildfire in 1943, wartime constraints, and the death of the founder and managing director of the garden, Susanna Bixby Bryant.


The Botanic Garden Moves, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

The Botanic Garden Moves, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

In 1950, the decision was taken to relocate Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden from its original site—Mrs. Susanna Bixby Bryant's ranch in Santa Ana Canyon, northeastern Orange County—to today's Claremont location in eastern Los Angeles County. The move reflected a wish to align the founder's mandate to "foster scientific research and public welfare" by seeking affiliation with the Claremont Colleges. The change enabled it to train graduate students in botany and related fields and draw more visitors to a garden devoted to native California plants. Accounts describe how the new site was adapted to its purpose, including the construction of …


Acknowledgments, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

Acknowledgments, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

No abstract provided.


The Years 1960–1977, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

The Years 1960–1977, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

In the years 1960–1977, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden fully embraces its role as teaching institution and as advocate and guardian of the native California flora. Expansion of the living collection, landscaping of the grounds, public education, herbarium and library activities, and publication output are detailed. To accommodate a growing number of graduate students, the faculty—consisting of Richard K. Benjamin, Sherwin Carlquist, and Lee. W. Lenz—is joined by Peter H. Raven, Ronald Scogin, John P. Simon, and Robert F. Thorne.


Appendix I, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

Appendix I, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Appendix I features the mission statement of Rancho Santa Botanic Garden, Claremont, California, at the time of writing and a photograph depicting staff and students in March 1957.


Appendix Ii, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

Appendix Ii, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Appendix II lists the names and dissertation titles of 32 students in the botany program jointly administered by Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and Claremont Graduate School/Pomona College who received a doctoral degree in botany between 1954 and 1977.


Appendix Iii, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

Appendix Iii, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Appendix III features horticultural introductions by John Dourley at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, California, in 1953–1977. The 24 introductions belong to the genera Arctostaphylos (10), Baccharis (2), Berberis (1), Ceanothus (6), Fragaria (1), Fremontodendron (2), and Heuchera (2).


Back Matter 9(1) Jan 1977

Back Matter 9(1)

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

No abstract provided.


Back Cover 9(1) Jan 1977

Back Cover 9(1)

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

No abstract provided.


Index Volume 9, Issue 1 (Golden Aliso) Jan 1977

Index Volume 9, Issue 1 (Golden Aliso)

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

No abstract provided.


Front Cover 9(1) Jan 1977

Front Cover 9(1)

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

No abstract provided.


Epilogue, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

Epilogue, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Factors that may have been decisive in turning Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden into a successful establishment of botanical teaching and a garden devoted to the conservation and showcasing of the native California flora are put forward. In addition to the enthusiasm and tenacity of its founder, Susanna Bixby Bryant, inspiration and advice came from several other key figures, notably Carl Brandt Wolf, Ernest Braunton, Willis Linn Jepson, and Theodore Payne.


The Botanic Garden—A Reality, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

The Botanic Garden—A Reality, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

The year 1927 marks the beginning of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden at its original location in Santa Ana Canyon, northeastern Orange County, California. Letters exchanged between Susanna Bixby Bryant, the botanic garden founder, and various botanists and horticulturalists trace her efforts to obtain seed and planting stock, herbarium specimens, and books and periodicals for her library. Much discussion is devoted to the question of how to fill the position of Scientific Director.


Notes And References, Lee W. Lenz Jan 1977

Notes And References, Lee W. Lenz

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Notes and references pertaining to the history of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in California are listed.