Stephanie is an intern at Rae Selling Berry Seed Bank! She has worked on a variety of interesting tasks in the lab and research greenhouse. In the lab she has been cleaning, sorting and weighing seeds to ready them for the storage process and then storing them. She is also helping with germination experiments in the lab testing seeds from varying collection years. In the research greenhouses she has been transplanting, watering and taking care of native plants and the seedlings from the germination experiment.
Stephanie is a senior at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon working toward a BS in Environmental Science. She has been an active volunteer at Friends of Trees for a few years training and practicing as a tree pruner and inspector and has taught at the Sauvie Island center at Topaz Farms kids summer farm camp. Her further goals in environmental science are to work in soil and plant restoration. After graduation in spring of the 2022-2023 school year, she plans on attending the wetland restoration certification program that PSU offers.