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Kerri Mocko & Adam Histen at Science Straight Up: Fresh & Green Manager Clinton Morse discusses AntU programming at 2018 CT Flower & Garden Show Professor Emeritus Terry Webster leads Greenhouse Friday tour Professor Cynthia Jones at the 2016 BioBlitz UConn Studio Art - Evening Studio 2014 Annual Tolland Middle School Field Trip Kids Are Scientists Too day camp lab exercise

EEB Greenhouse Public Outreach

The Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Greenhouse facilities engage in numerous outreach activities throughout the year to increase public awareness of plant biodiversity and its critical influence on daily human life. Some of our previous outreach activities are highlighted in the accompanying slideshow.

 
Please contact our staff to discuss outreach opportunities with your group. You can also support greenhouse programming and an initiative to build a new greenhouse facility for our extensive collections by making a donation to the EEB Biodiversity Greenhouse Fund.

 
You can help us reach out to more people by following us on your social media of choice - Instagram, Facebook or Tumblr. We post a couple times a week to keep everyone abreast of whats happening in the greenhouse - rarities in bloom, new plants, programming and more. Share with your friends!!

Upcoming Public Outreach Events

  • March 1st, 8th & 15th, 2019, 12noon-1:30pm
    Greenhouse Friday - Drop in tours with Professor Emeritus Terry Webster

  • April 6th, 2019, 11am-3pm

Past Public Outreach Events

  • October 2018
    • Plants loaned for CT Invasive Plants Working Group Symposium
    • Succulent Presentation for Wethersfield Home Garden Club
    • UConn Research Connections Event
    • Succulents for Windowsills talk - Kensington Garden Club
  • September 2018
    • New England Carnivorous Plant Society Annual Show, Tower Hill Botanic Garden
  • July 2018
    • UConn Bug Week including Pollinator Scavenger Hunt
    • Tolland Family Resource Center Day Camp
    • Twice weekly Parent Orientation Tours
  • June 2018
    • Hosted New England Carnivorous Plant Society monthly meeting and bog walk
    • Plants loaned to Plant Morphology 2018: Linking Phenotype to Development
    • Twice weekly Parent Orientation Tours
  • May 2018
    • Aquatic plants borrowed for Connecticut Envirothon
    • National Public Gardens Day - Congressman Joe Courtney visit
    • Science Straight Up: Fresh & Green at CT Science Center
    • CT Cactus & Succulent Society Monthly meeting - Jeff Sedwin, South African Succulents
  • April 2018
    • Canterbury Elementary School Science Night
    • EEB Greenhouse contributes to BGCI Ex Situ Assessment of Orchid Collections
    • Pop Up Student dinner in the rainforest.
    • Plants displayed at CT Cactus & Succulent Society Annual Show in Bristol, CT
    • Orchid plants & propagules donated to CT Orchid Society Auction
    • Conophytum talk for Cactus and Succulent Society of Massachusetts - Matt Opel
  • March 2018
    • Pollination Syndrome talk & greenhouse scavenger hunt with CSMNH
    • Propagation talk for CT Cactus & Succulent Society - Matt Opel
    • Plants loaned to New England Carnivorous Plant Society for Boston Flower Show Display
    • Plant materials provided to the Global Flora project at Wellesley.
  • February 2018
    • Plant material supplied for Darwin Day Celebration at CT Science Center
    • Succulent presentation for Manchester Garden Club - Matt Opel
    • Exhibited at Connecticut Flower and Garden Show

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Outreach Links

  • Conservatory Video Tour Part 1
  • Conervatory Video Tour Part 2
  • Connecticut State Museum of Natural History

Biodiversity Research Collection

  • Herbarium (CONN)
  • Fossil Plant Collections

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Meghan Moriarty
860-486-8941
meghan.moriarty.edu
75 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3043
Storrs, CT
06269-3043, U.S.A.
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