Desert StudiesTucker Hancock
2016 The Garden Club of America Award in Desert Studies
Tucker Hancock is a candidate for a Master’s of Landscape Architecture at the University of Colorado, Denver and an intern with the Denver Botanic Gardens. He will study desert plants with application in the designed arid landscape. He will use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to collect species of fameflower (Phemeranthus). He will map and model the environmental conditions in which particular species occur, and develop strategies for the cultivation of those plants in gardens, on buildings, and in compromised urban spaces.
The Garden Club of America Award in Desert Studies
To promote the study of horticulture, conservation, botany, environmental science, and landscape design relating to the arid landscape.
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