Spencer Greenfield

URI Internship Year:

2023

Graduation Year:

2025

Degree:

Spencer is a rising junior at Yale College and a physicist-turned-environmentalist. He is majoring in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a concentration in Environmental and Energy Geoscience, and he's aiming for a certificate in Climate Change Science and Solutions. He is passionate about environmental justice, geography, climate change, and land use change, which are areas where he can use physical science to impact social causes. He's done research in everything from telescope calibration to climate modeling! He is beyond excited to be working in New Haven this summer and to be learning on the ground from his peers and community. In his spare time, he enjoys playing music, drinking coffee, spending time outdoors, and making all things tie-dye.

Group

Arch Street

Beaver Ponds Park

Friends of Kimberly Field

Shepard Street

East Edge Gardeners

Chatham Square Neighborhood Association

Greenspace Log

Date	Category	Photos	Group	Summary
08/03/2023	Planting		Shepard Street	We worked hard to get the site ready for the kids' space in back of the lot! We picked up the rest of the trash and put down enough woodchips to cover the final areas.
08/02/2023	Maintenance	The beautiful flowers at Kimberly	Friends of Kimberly Field	For the last workday of the Friends of Kimberly Fields this summer, we mulched the rest of the curb strip we planted last week and did some weeding in the front beds of the lot!
07/28/2023	Maintenance		East Edge Gardeners	We beat out the day's heat and weeded and mulched both Ellsworth St beds!
07/27/2023	Maintenance		Shepard Street	We worked through some rain to put down 1 more yard of woodchips in the back space!
07/26/2023	Planting	Last planting of the season	Friends of Kimberly Field	We turfed out a very large area of milkweed between the beds we planted last week in the front curb strip, forming one continuous weed-free bed! We then planted 18!! perennials in the center area, forming a beautiful community garden in front of the Kimberly Fields lot.
07/26/2023	Planting		Beaver Ponds Park	The Friends of Beaver Ponds worked hard for their last workday of the summer! They planted in the triangle garden and put down all the rest of the mulch that had piled up throughout the summer.
07/22/2023	Planting	Cyril the Sorcerer performing his magic	Chatham Square Neighborhood Association	This was a big block party to get the community together and steward Lewis St Park! The community planted several perennials and shrubs, put down a lot of mulch, and then had some fun with Cyril the Sorcerer (AKA the Merlin of environmental magic)!
07/21/2023	Planting		East Edge Gardeners	The East Edge team planted a Joe Pye weed in the Norton bed and two spireas in the Ellsworth bed generously donated by former neighbors! Luckily, they just beat out the evening downpour too!
07/20/2023	Maintenance		Shepard Street	The Shepard St crew put down a whole 2 yards of woodchips to almost finish out the back children's space!
07/19/2023	Planting	Mulching the bed	Friends of Kimberly Field	We turfed and planted another 15 perennials around the Hawthorn tree in front of the lot! We then mulched the beds we worked on this week and last week. The two beds in front now form a lovely pair!
07/19/2023	Planting	Pat stands next to the triangle garden	Beaver Ponds Park	We planted lots in the children's garden and several perennials near the triangle garden! Besides that we watered, picked up trash, and overall gave even more love to the already incredibly loved Beaver Ponds Park!
07/14/2023	Maintenance		East Edge Gardeners	We mulched one of the beds along Brownell St that was weeded the week before!
07/13/2023	Maintenance		Shepard Street	We spread lots of woodchips in the back area of the site, preparing it for the obstacle course to come!
07/12/2023	Planting		Beaver Ponds Park	FoBPP had another great workday! We worked in the children's garden, the stone sign garden, and the pondside garden. We weeded, picked up trash, planted perennials, mulched, and watered!
07/12/2023	Planting	Planting teamwork!	Friends of Kimberly Field	We turfed around the serviceberry tree the Friends of Kimberly Fields planted last year, and then we planted a whopping 15 perennials! We hope that we can combine this to form one big beautiful bed in the curb strip stretching across the whole front of the lot!
07/07/2023	Maintenance		East Edge Gardeners	This week members of the East Edge crew weeded the beds on either side of Brownell St and did some pruning!
06/30/2023	Planting		East Edge Gardeners	We weeded, planted 8 gaillardia, and put woodchips down in the bridge bed close to the park!
06/29/2023	Maintenance		Shepard Street	We finished putting down topsoil in the back of the site, so it's all even to put down woodchips!
06/28/2023	Planting		Beaver Ponds Park	We put lots of mulch near the pondside garden and planted perennials there too! We also watered and tended to the stone sign garden.
06/28/2023	Maintenance		Friends of Kimberly Field	We weeded and mulched the beds in the site!
06/23/2023	Planting		East Edge Gardeners	We planted 12 stella d'oro daylilies and re-mulched the Norton St bed! We put a few white stakes around it and it's looking in great shape.
06/22/2023	Maintenance	Ms. Kim, Jayden, and Chrystophe	Shepard Street	We prepared the back space for more topsoil by finishing our maintenance and trash cleanup!
06/21/2023	Planting		Beaver Ponds Park	After weeding the Stone Sign garden last week, we were able to plant 12 perennials and mulch almost the entire bed! We also weeded almost half of the pondside garden in preparation for planting next week and pruned some of the largest branches overshadowing a beautiful flame azalea.
06/21/2023	Maintenance	Carlos using the pole saw	Friends of Kimberly Field	We did lots of pruning around the site! There's now a clear pathway for people to walk through.
06/20/2023	Maintenance		Shepard Street	An Inspired Communities activity day with the kids!
06/16/2023	Planting	Mulching	East Edge Gardeners	We planted 10 purple coneflowers and mulched in the Norton St bed!
06/15/2023	Maintenance	Ms. Kim and Riley stand proud behind lots of topsoil	Shepard Street	Started off the summer strong by starting to clean up the back area! We did trash cleanup and then starting laying down topsoil to even out the ground on the site!
06/15/2023	Maintenance		Shepard Street	An Inspired Communities activity day with the kids!
06/14/2023	Maintenance		Beaver Ponds Park	For the first big workday of the season with URI, the Friends of Beaver Ponds Park did fantastic work weeding the Stone Sign garden to prepare for planting throughout the summer. We also were able to get a good amount of mulch in the park!
06/13/2023	Maintenance		Shepard Street	An Inspired Communities activity day with the kids!
06/10/2023	Maintenance	Watering	Arch Street	We did a lot of good work cleaning up leaves on most of the beds! Cindy and Jerri worked very hard this week and it’s already showing in how spiffy the site looks.
06/09/2023	Maintenance	East Edge's first workday, Summer 2023	East Edge Gardeners	Sandy came out and we weeded, mulched, and edged the entire Hobart St bed! It was a great start to the summer that left the bed looking great.
06/07/2023	Maintenance		Beaver Ponds Park	We learned the appropriate precautions for wildfire smoke: it's helpful to wear a mask and for those at risk to stay home. With this in mind, it was a soft start to the season, but we pruned and cleared out of invasives. The pond is visible from the path, the trees are free to breathe, and it's comfortable to sit on the bench!

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