Friday, January 29, 2016

American Geosciences Institute - Internships

Geoscience Policy Internship
Level: BS/BA or MS/MA
Be a Geoscience Policy Intern with the American Geosciences Institute! The Geoscience Policy Program represents the geoscience community in Washington DC, and actively works with Congress and federal agencies to foster sound public policy in areas that affect geoscientists, including water, energy, and mineral resources; geologic hazards, environmental protection, and federal funding for geoscience research and education. 
AGI seeks outstanding geoscience or geo-related engineering students (undergraduate or Masters) with a strong interest in federal science policy. Interns will hone their writing and web publishing skills while gaining first-hand understanding of the legislative process and executive branch agencies. 
You must be a U.S. citizen and enrolled in, or recently completed, a geoscience or geo-related engineering bachelor's or master's degree program to apply. 
Apply Online:
Fall Internship (14 weeks) - Application Deadline April 15  - Apply Here
AGI accepts one intern during the fall semester (September through December) at a fixed stipend of $5500. The stipend for the intern is provided through a generous grant from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Foundation. The internship lasts 14 weeks, and the starting date will be based on the schedule of the successful applicant. Geoscience students with an interest in energy and resource issues are particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants are strongly encouraged to obtain credit for the internship from their university. 
Spring Internship (14 weeks) - Application Deadline October 15 - Apply Here
AGI accepts one intern during the spring semester (January through April) at a fixed stipend of $5500. The stipend for the intern is provided through a generous grant from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Foundation. The internship lasts 14 weeks, and the starting date will be based on the schedule of the successful applicant. Geoscience students with an interest in energy and resource issues are particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants are strongly encouraged to obtain credit for the internship from their university. 
Summer Internship (12 weeks) - Application Deadline March 15  - Apply Here
AGI is planning to accept two interns for the summer at a fixed stipend of $5000 per person. Stipends for the interns are funded jointly by AGI and a generous grant from the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) Foundation. The internship will last 12 weeks, and the starting date will be based on the schedule of the successful applicant. 
Inquiries only to govt@agiweb.org.
View past interns here
Critical Issues Internship
Level: BS/BA or MS/MA
 
Be a Critical Issues Program Intern with the American Geosciences Institute! The Critical Issues Program supports well-informed public and individual decision making by providing relevant geoscience information on critical issues to decision makers at all levels, with particular emphasis on the state and local levels. The Critical Issues program makes geoscience information more discoverable to decision makers through our website, webinar series, forums, and research database. 
 
We offer two Critical Issues internships, a summer position focused on developing geoscience-based content for the program’s website, and a fall internship focused on organizing a Critical Issues Forum and supporting a range of program activities.
 
You must be a U.S. citizen to apply. Summer interns should be enrolled in, or have recently completed, a geoscience or geo-related engineering bachelor's or master's degree program.  Fall interns should have a broad geoscience background and be enrolled in, or have recently completed, a bachelor’s or master’s degree.
 
Apply Online:
Summer Critical Issues Internship (12 weeks) - Application Deadline March 15  - Apply Here
AGI seeks outstanding geoscience or geo-related engineering students (undergraduate or Masters) with a strong interest in state and local science policy and science outreach. Interns will hone their writing and web publishing skills while gaining first-hand understanding of the legislative process and executive branch agencies. 
 
AGI is planning to accept one intern for the summer at a fixed stipend of $5000. Stipends for the interns are funded jointly by AGI and a generous grant from the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) Foundation. The internship will last 12 weeks. The starting date will be mid-May to early June, based on the schedule of the successful applicant. 
 
Fall Critical Issues Forum Internship (14 weeks) - Application Deadline April 15 - Apply Here
Critical Issues Forums are 1-2 day workshop-style meetings that provide a collaborative setting in which participants from diverse backgrounds can share information and expertise on critical issues of mutual interest. The Fall intern will help to organize the 2016 Forum, which is focused on water-related geoscience issues, and will support a range of program activities.
 
AGI seeks outstanding students (undergraduate or Masters) with a strong interest in the geosciences and in event planning and science outreach. Interns will hone their event planning, writing, and web publishing skills, while also gaining first-hand understanding of the role of science in policy-making and science outreach. 
 
AGI is planning to accept one intern for the fall at a fixed stipend of $5500. Stipends for the fall interns are funded by AGI. The internship will last 14 weeks. The starting date will be mid-August to September, based on the schedule of the successful applicant.
 
Inquiries only to cipinfo@agiweb.org.
 
AGI/Schlumberger Fellowship in Geoscience Communication 
Level: MS/MA or Ph.D.
We are no longer accepting applications for the 2016 AGI/Schlumberger Fellowship in Geoscience Communication
All application materials are due on October 19, 2015.
The American Geosciences Institute is accepting applications for the 2016 AGI/Schlumberger Fellowship in Geoscience Communication. The successful candidate will play a leading role in AGI’s innovative Critical Issues program, which makes geoscience information accessible to decision makers at federal, state, and local levels. The program is supported through AGI’s Center for Geoscience and Society.
The fellowship offers a superb opportunity to link the geoscience community and our understanding of the Earth to decision-making processes throughout the country.
Primary duties and responsibilities will include:
  • Developing geoscience-based content for the Critical Issues website, including webpage content, fact sheets, and other information products
  • Working with technical experts to ensure the accuracy and impartiality of information products
  • Promoting the program’s products and services to decision makers and geoscientists via meetings, webinars,      conferences, social media, regularly scheduled emails, and other channels
  • Participating in planning, organizing, advertising, and moderating Critical Issues webinars, including conducting post-webinar surveys, and annual surveys of webinar participants
  • Providing input on the program’s direction, planning, and communications strategy
  • Providing regular status reports on fellowship activities and achievements
The fellowship is a 12-month appointment, based at AGI headquarters in Alexandria, VA. The fellowship carries a stipend of $4,000 per month.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will be a highly creative communicator, proficient in print and online media, who can deliver geoscience information effectively and efficiently to targeted audiences. We seek applicants with a broad geoscience background, excellent writing,  graphical, and  interpersonal communication skills. Enthusiasm and team spirit are essential. Candidates should have completed a Master’s or higher degree, and should already be eligible to work in the United States.
Application Procedures
Interested candidates should submit:
  • Cover letter with the names and contact information of three references
  • Brief statement of purpose, which should outline why you are interested in the fellowship, what you would bring to the fellowship, and what you hope to gain from the fellowship (maximum 1,000 words)
  • Résumé or curriculum vitae
Please submit materials as a single Word document (.doc or .docx) or PDF (.pdf) using our online submission form.
All application materials are due on October 19, 2015.
Please note that finalists will be required to complete a written project as part of the application process. Details and instructions for the written project will be emailed to selected candidates at a date to be confirmed.
The starting date for the Fellowship will be based on the schedule of the successful candidate, but is expected to be 1 February 2016.
Inquiries only to cipinfo@agiweb.org. Please use the subject line “AGI/Schlumberger Fellowship.”
AGI is an equal opportunity employer and especially welcomes applications from women and minorities.
View all AGI/Schlumberger Fellows here.
William L. Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellowship
Level: Ph.D. 
All application materials are due on February 1, 2016.
Spend 12 months in Washington, DC, working as a staff member in the office of a member of Congress or on a congressional committee. The William L. Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellowship is a unique opportunity to gain first-hand experience in the legislative process and to make practical contributions to the effective and timely use of geoscience information on issues relating to the environment, resources, natural hazards, and federal science policy. Application deadline: February 1, 2016. 
Funding for the fellowship is provided through an endowment established by the AGI Foundation to honor William L. Fisher, the Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial Chair in Mineral Resources and Professor at the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas, Austin. For more information please see The Fisher Endowment
Qualifications and Application Procedures:
Prospective applicants should have a broad geoscience background and excellent written and oral communication skills. Although prior experience in public policy is not necessary, a demonstrable interest in applying science to solving public problems is desirable. A Ph.D. at the time of appointment or a master's degree in engineering plus three years of professional engineering experience is required. Applicants must be a member of one of AGI's member societies, a list of which is available here
The Fellowship carries an annual stipend of up to $68,000 plus allowances for health insurance, relocation costs, and travel. Additionally, it may be possible to extend the Fellowship for up to 4 months. 
Interested candidates should submit:
  • A cover letter - The candidate's cover letter should include an addendum listing the society memberships with membership numbers, and the names and contact information of your three references. 
  • A statement of purpose - The statement of purpose should include your reasons for applying for this Fellowship, what you would bring to the Fellowship, and what you hope to gain from the Fellowship. It should be brief, no more than 1000 words in length.
  • A curriculum vitae
  • Three letters of reference - Letters of reference should be submitted through the reference online submission link, or by regular mail by February 1, 2016. 
Please submit all materials as a single word document (.doc or .docx) or PDF (.pdf) using the online submission form
All application materials are due on February 1, 2016.
Inquiries only to govt@agiweb.org.
View past fellows here
The Fisher Endowment:
Funding for the fellowship is provided through an endowment established by the AGI Foundation to honor William L. Fisher, the Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial Chair in Mineral Resources and Professor at the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas, Austin. Fisher served as the inaugural Dean and previously as the Director of the Jackson School. For three decades before that Fisher served as the Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology and the state geologist of Texas. At the national level, Fisher served as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Energy and Minerals under President Ford. Over several administrations, he has been advisor to the President and Secretaries of Energy and the Interior, and he has chaired numerous National Research Council committees and boards. For more information on Fisher and the endowment, please see the column "Endowing the AGI Congressional Fellowship"that appeared in the October 2003 issue of Geotimes Magazine (now EARTH Magazine). 
Other Fellowship Opportunities:
Several of AGI's member societies also sponsor Congressional Science Fellowships. For more information please contact:
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Institute of Physics, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Meteorological Society and other related societies offer similar Congressional Fellowships, and AAAS also offers Executive Branch Fellowships. It is acceptable to apply to more than one society in a given year. 

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Study Abroad - Global Environmental Health


Your Social Service Aid vacancy announcement is OPEN until January 19!

Your Social Service Aid (YCC Crew Leader) position is open on USA Jobs from today until January 19 (next Tuesday).  You can see it here:  https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/421771300

Restoration Technician postions at Nachusa Grasslands


Positions will be posted until 1st week of February.

These entry level positions offer great field experiences for current students and/or recent grads. Positions are highly competitive with 100+ applicants some years. Cover letters recommended in addition to resumes.   

Summer positions @ Big Muddy NFWR

Summer Pathways positions are on USAJobs this week (closing Friday 1/15/2016). Please share this information with students who may be interested in gaining experience, working for FWS doing a variety of natural resource management tasks. The following link is to our positions, but several other refuges here in the Midwest also have positions advertised this week. 

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/425620900

FWS - SUMMER JOB ANNOUNCEMENT


 United States Department of the Interior

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
7071 Riverview Road
Thomson, Illinois  61285

                              SUMMER JOB ANNOUNCEMENT


Position: Social Services Aid, GS-0186‑04

Agency: Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Hourly pay rate: $13.73       Work hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4:00pm

Duty Location: Lost Mound Unit, Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, Savanna District, 3159 Crim Drive, Savanna, IL

Application Open Date: 01/11/2016         Closing Date: 01/15/2016

Job Announcement Number: R3-15-1553356-CDD

Area of Consideration: Applications will be accepted from all eligible applicants. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen and possess a valid driver’s license. A background investigation is required.

Type of Position: Full time, 10 weeks extending from approximately June 6-August 12, 2016

Major Duties: This position is the Crew Leader for a four person Youth Conservation Corps, a summer employment program for high school students 15-18 years of age. This youth employment program works on conservation projects in the natural resources field. Responsibilities include: schedules work projects through coordination with Refuge staff; participates in work projects and provides daily supervision of the youths; maintains records of accomplishments and time and attendance; schedules and participates in environmental education activities; and assists in maintaining a safe work environment for the youth.     


How To Apply: The vacancy will be listed from January 11-15, 2016 on the Office of Personnel Management website at: http://www.usajobs.opm.gov. Applications are preferably completed via email on this web site, or applications can be submitted in accordance with instructions listed on the web site. If you do not have access to email, you can call the Refuge office at (815) 273-2732 to obtain a copy of the announcement. 

Thursday, January 7, 2016

The Conservation Foundation’s 2016 DuPage Environmental Summit

The Conservation Foundation’s
2016 DuPage Environmental Summit 

“Making Conservation Meaningful Where You Live”

Thursday, January 21, 2016
8:30- Noon
NIU Naperville Campus, 1120 East Diehl Road  
Naperville, IL

Sponsored by Companion’s Fund of the DuPage Foundation, DuPage County, The Pizzo Group

Free of Charge, preregistration required (online at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2016-dupage-environmental-summit-tickets-19892347547?aff=es2 or call 630-428-4500, ext. 110)

This year’s DuPage Environmental Summit will focus on how to have more impact by engaging local units of government and their citizens to organize and implement conservation activities where they live. Research shows that people want to live and work in communities where they have clean water, clean air, and lots of parks and open space to enjoy.  Our communities need to encourage local conservation efforts and promote conservation as a core value.

Implementing community-based conservation activities has been shown to be an excellent way to engage residents and businesses to help create a sense of community pride.  Whether it’s planting a butterfly garden at city hall by the local garden club, a group of families cleaning up the creek running through their neighborhood, or a scout troop helping to restore a woodland at a local park, conservation is more meaningful when it happens where people live and work.

Real examples and case studies on successful community-based conservation activities will be highlighted throughout the DuPage County area by The Conservation Foundation and its partner organizations. These include to name a few:  cleaning up your local creeks, planting community rain gardens or butterfly gardens, organizing community rain barrel and water conservation events, holding a native tree and shrub and plant sale, engaging local youth groups and schools in restoring a local natural area or park, and educating neighborhoods on clean water and storm drains.


A small exhibit area will be open 7:30 a.m.- noon with local businesses and organizations involved in community conservation initiatives.  Light breakfast and refreshments will be served beginning at 7:30 a.m.  Registration open 7:30- 8:30 a.m.

Urban Water Innovation Network Undergraduate Research Program

Urban Water Innovation Network Undergraduate Research Program

We are pleased to announce a new Undergraduate Research Program (URP) for summer 2016. Ten students will be given the opportunity to perform cutting edge, transdisciplinary research of immediate relevance to people in urban areas. Students will work with mentors in one of five study regions in the Network: Mid-Atlantic, South Florida, Phoenix-Tucson Sun corridor, Front Range of Colorado, and California.

Our goal, where possible, is to pair students – one in the social sciences and one in environmental science or engineering – to tackle an urban water problem from different perspectives.

For information, see below or go to: <https://erams.com/UWIN/urp/>

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Transdisciplinary Undergraduate Research in Urban Water Sustainability

Ten students will join the Urban Water Innovation Network (UWIN) for 8 weeks in summer 2016 to:

·Complete an independent, guided research project, working closely with mentor scientists, other students and the broader UWIN team

·Attend a 3 day kick-off meeting at Colorado State University

·Participate in skill building workshops and seminars in research methods, statistics, scientific writing, ethics, collaboration and preparing for graduate school

·Attend a Virtual Forum on Opportunities in Urban Water Research and Management

·Give an oral presentation in a final Urban Water Sustainability Research Symposium

·Write a paper based on the summer’s research

UWIN URP studentswill work on individual research projects in their area of concentration, where the topics support integration across disciplines and connections to the national UWIN Network. In this way, students develop disciplinary and place-based depth while also learning across the socio-environmental spectrum, and across broader spatial scales.

2016 UWIN URP projects include:

1.Use of Alternative Water Sources, Colorado State University, Ft.
Collins, CO

2.Water Consumption & Conservation, Colorado State University, Ft.
Collins, CO

3.Thermal and hydrologic Properties of Pavements, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

4.Urban Flooding, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

5.Urban Energy Water Nexus, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

6.Hydrology of Urban Floodplains, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

7.The Human Thermal Experience in the City, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

8.Urban Water Governance, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

9.Decomposition in Urban Streams, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

10.Urban Water Adaptation under Sea-Level Rise, Florida International University, Miami, FL

11.Urban Water Systems Interactions, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Dates:June 6 – July 29, 2016 (8 weeks)

Eligibility:Students that are current freshmen, sophomores, juniors or seniors that still will be undergraduates in fall 2016, who are citizens or permanent residents of the US or its possessions.

Award:$4,000 participation stipend, room and board (or $400 food stipend); travel to kick-off meeting and then to research site. Some assistance is available for travel at the end of the program.

To apply: See our website at: <https://erams.com/UWIN/urp/> Online application only.
Applications must be submitted by February 5, 2016.
For more information, contact:
Alan R. Berkowitz, UWIN URP Director
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
PO Box AB, 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY 12545

(845) 677-7600 x 311 <tel:%28845%29%20677-7600%20x%20311>
Fax: (845) 677-5976 <tel:%28845%29%20677-5976>

2016 Nebraska Summer Research Program

Undergraduate students who are interested in a summer research experience, should check out and consider applying to the 2016 Nebraska Summer Research Program

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UNL's summer program offers research opportunities in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields in addition to an interdisciplinary Minority Health Disparities program aimed at converting cutting edge social and behavioral research into an understanding and reduction of health disparities among minorities.


Summer 2016 research programs include:
During the Nebraska Summer Research Program, students receive first-hand exposure to research and the experience of graduate school. They work closely with faculty mentors and research teams of graduate students and other summer scholars. Students also have opportunities to participate in meaningful social and professional development activities outside of the laboratory.

Our online application makes it easy for students to apply. Priority review begins Monday, February 1 and all applications must be completed by Tuesday, March 1. Students historically underrepresented in graduate education and students from academic institutions where research programs are limited are especially encouraged to apply.

If you have any questions about our program don't hesitate to contact me.  
Sincerely, 



Maggie Jobes

Assistant Director of Graduate Recruitment
Office of Graduate Studies
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
graduate@unl.edu