Catherine Dufresne Email and Phone Number

Trim and weed young trees, shrubs, and other perennialsRe-pot plants

Face-to-face meetings with undergraduate and graduate students to help them with writingIncluded outlines, grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, ESL assistance, writing and research strategies

Tutoring Introductory Biology students at the Learning CenterWeekend study sessions

Plan and maintain garden beds, maintain greenhouse and trellis structuresGuide volunteer groups to work in the campus gardenHelp organize gardening related workshops and events Work with First Year Seminar students and faculty as a peer mentor and teaching assistantWrite posts for the garden blog

Performed field measurements: counted and measured Cytisus scoparius flowers, collected flowers and performed pigment analysis using UV-VIS and HPLC, captured and identified bees, weighed plants, collected and counted seed pods

Water and arrange plantsAdvise customers on appropriate plants for their propertiesLoad block and mulch onto vehicles