Community Partner: Rob Stevens
Rob StevensA former park ranger from Yellowstone and Mt. Rainier National Parks, Rob Stevens retired early from his more recent career as a civil engineer to get back to his first love of improving the environment. He's had many years experience doing restoration and is currently overseeing the greater south meadow area of the park as a volunteer forest steward. His primary focus is removing invasive exotic noxious weeds but he is also trying to increase the biodiversity of the meadow by adding a number of new native wildflowers to the meadow and the surrounding forest edge.
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University of Washington Restoration Ecology Capstone Team
ARIANNA FARDADArianna (she/they) is a senior in the Program on the Environment with a minor in Ecological Restoration. They have taken courses in the field of natural sciences and restoration ecology with a focus on the intersection between wildlife and ecological restoration. In addition to their work on this project, Arianna has completed an honors capstone project titled “Small But Mighty: Forage Fish Signal the Need for Shoreline Restoration in the Puget Sound” in which she conducted field and lab research on the impact of shoreline armoring and the effectiveness of restoration efforts on forage fish reproduction cycles in the Puget Sound.
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OLIVIA ANDERSONOlivia (she/they) is a senior in Environmental Science and Terrestrial Resource Management with a minor in Ecological Restoration. They have a background in management, overseeing teams ranging from 8 to 18 members for four years. She has volunteered for over ten years, engaging in humanitarian work worldwide. With a foundation in caretaking, Olivia lives by the motto 'leave it better than you found it,' impacting the quality of her daily work. She possesses in-depth knowledge of soil systems acquired through her studies at the University of Washington, making her expertise invaluable for the restoration work at Discovery Park. Olivia's minor focuses primarily on ecological restoration, and she has accumulated over ten hours of hands-on experience in this field.
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AVA JEANNE GUTHEILAva Jeanne is a senior in Environmental Science and Terrestrial Resource Management with minors in Landscape Architecture, Art History, and Environmental Studies. The combination of her major with her minors has allowed Ava Jeanne to be knowledgeable both of resource management through forestry site evaluations and GIS along with more creative and social science-focused endeavors including outdoor recreation management and biophilic design. Outside of academics, she has been a part of ASUW’s Legislative Steering Committee and the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, and an independent researcher at the Burke Herbarium.
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ELLISE HALLEllise (she/her) is a senior in Environmental Science and Terrestrial Resource Management with a major concentration in Environmental Horticulture. She studies horticulture, plant physiology & ecology and how they can be utilized for successful restoration specifically within Pacific Northwest Ecosystems. She currently works in Jonathan Bakker’s (UW Ecology Professor) lab working with the strategies and implications of Pacific Northwest ecosystem restoration. She has worked with Ohio State University through this position, processing, measuring, and analyzing biomasses of different plant varieties in a potential restoration site.
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NOVA RAVENSCROFT
Nova (they/them) is a senior pursuing Bachelor of Science in Plant Biology with a minor in Ecological Restoration. They have academic experience with plant morphology, development, and evolutionary trends, native plant identification, and zoology. At Shadow Lake Elementary School, Nova had the opportunity to participate in the design, implementation, and maintenance of a rain garden. They also have experience in environmental education from their time at the Shadow Lake Peat Bog in King County and Camp Casey on Whidbey Island.
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