Alex joined PlantRight as 项目经理 in October 2019. 她在加州大学戴维斯分校获得可持续农业和粮食系统学士学位(2015年),在Sierra学院获得生物和自然科学副学士学位(2013年)。. 在塞拉学院(Sierra College),她是自然历史博物馆(Natural 历史 Museum)的讲解员,带领参观者参观展品和自然之旅. 然后在加州大学戴维斯分校, 亚历克斯是植物园大使项目的实习生,在那里她了解了观赏植物和加州本土植物. 她还是加州大学戴维斯分校学生农场的首席农民,负责种植混合水果和蔬菜作物. 最近, 亚历克斯是谷歌在山景城总部的社区花园协调员, CA. 在这个角色, she maintained and taught about edible gardens, 她负责管理校园的“绿圈”,为野生动物提供保护栖息地. She is excited to be back in the Sacramento area and on the PlantRight team.
斯蒂芬妮·法尔宗
荣誉退职的项目经理
斯蒂芬妮在旧金山湾区长大,2016年加入PlantRight. She managed PlantRight from 2016-2019 while it was at 可持续的保护, 她正在推动该项目向加州植物联盟的新家过渡,同时她在可持续保护工作 加速恢复 program, and has joined the 指导委员会. 斯蒂芬妮得了B.S. in Environmental Science with a minor in Conservation Biology from UCLA. before working as an outdoor educator in Ohio for two years. 斯蒂芬妮还在佛蒙特州绘制网上正规网投实体地图,并在学生和教师中完成了一项实习工作,即修复分水岭(STRAW), 一个项目的 Point Blue Conservation Science. 在与STRAW合作期间,她对加州的本土植物非常熟悉,并花了很多时间手工清除入侵物种. Before earning a masters degree from the Bren School of Environmental Science & 管理 在UCSB.
Jan Merryweather
Program Director - Plant Risk Evaluator at 可持续的保护
1月加入 可持续的保护 in 2013 to further the development, 促进和实施以经济上合理的方式解决环境正规实体网投平台的措施. She brings 20-plus years of sales and marketing experience, at several early-stage companies, spanning consumer product, 电子商务, green building and nonprofit sectors. Her unique breadth of leadership experience – in sales and sales systems, 产品开发和帮助组织驱动积极的行为改变——非常适合推进我们(和我们的合作伙伴)的使命. 最近,简在加州备受尊敬的土地信托机构——永久病毒基金(Sempervirens Fund)工作. Having held senior sales and business development roles at Aerobie, Koosh, EcoRebates and Positive Coaching Alliance, 简在公司和非营利行业中与一些国家最知名的公司和非营利机构合作,拥有良好的合作记录. In 1996 she founded ThinkingOfU, 一个在线零售商, which she later sold to a venture-funded competitor. Jan attended Amherst College (where she was captain of the tennis team), and graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. 在沟通.
指导委员会
PlantRight™是由园艺行业的领导者联盟设计的, 环保组织, 科学家们, 和政府机构. 这一组, known as California Horticultural Invasives Prevention (Cal-HIP), 作为PlantRight的指导委员会,每季度召开一次会议.
These 盟友 in Planting Right support PlantRight in many ways, including sharing educational materials and awareness of PlantRight, being a part of our 指导委员会 and 工厂委员会名单, and volunteering in the annual nursery survey.
PlantRight联合了加州苗圃和景观行业的领导者, 环保组织, 学术界, 和政府机构 to find common ground and cost-effective solutions. 认识到预防是防止其传播的最有效途径, PlantRight为苗圃行业在这一正规实体网投平台上发挥带头作用提供了机会, 同时保护加州独特的生物多样性,减少监管需求.
PlantRight已被公认为一种模型解决方案,其应用可以远远超出加州的边界. Key components of our strategy include:
作为业界的园艺网上正规网投实体教育资源和建议的网上正规网投实体方案.
呼吁工业界自愿将网上正规网投实体从库存中清除, while promoting non-invasive alternatives.
Preventing new invasive plants from taking root, by developing and deploying a plant risk evaluator (PRE) tool, specifically for the trade.
2006The PlantRight brand is introduced, 发布了19种入侵花园植物的初步植物清单和建议的网上正规网投实体方案.
2008植物风险评估(PRE)的研究开始在华盛顿大学cali - hip成员Sarah Reichard教授和博士的指导下进行. candidate Lizbeth Seebacher, with the goal to provide the industry with a practical, 高度准确的评估工具,以确定植物的入侵风险在任何区域市场.
2009PlantRight对加州的园艺中心进行了首次年度调查,以确定在零售场所存在网上正规网投实体. The survey included 75 stores in 27 counties.
201073 stores in 27 counties were surveyed, 我们确定,我们需要调查至少191个托儿所,以获得有统计意义的结果.
2012PRE research transitions to University of California, 戴维斯, led by Professor Joseph DiTomaso and PhD. candidate Christiana Conser.
2013网上正规网投实体合作伙伴计划启动,为零售伙伴提供免费的在线培训.
2014The Plant List is updated for the first time in several years, and adds its first "emerging invasive," Stipa/Nassella tenuissima.
2015The Home Depot (California) becomes a Retail Nursery Partner. PRE model research (Conser et al.) is published in PLOS One in March. 国家PRE咨询小组被招募来帮助PlantRight定义PRE部署策略的执行.