For more job openings and to apply, visit: https://careers.nature.org/psp/tnccareers/APPLICANT/APPL/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_SCHJOB&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1
Monday, January 28, 2019
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Seven Generations Ahead Paid/Unpaid Internship Opportunities
Paid Position:
This 8 week position is funded by Tyson Foods. Eligible students will need to show proof of full-time enrollment in the fall of 2019. Selected hire must attend an orientation and three professional development opportunities (provided by Tyson) during their internship.
Duties will include researching and writing up case studies on Farm to School in IL for education and recruitment purposes. Marketing and outreach, communications, and possibly mapping projects also may be needed. Strong writing skills a must.
Unpaid position:
This position is very flexible with a minimum of 15 hours/week over a minimum of 10 weeks this summer. Dates and days are flexible. Internship may include gaining experience planning and implementing a large scale (4500 attendees) zero waste event, mapping projects, Community Solar support, working with composting policy, education and infrastructure, as well as research and writing projects
Seven Generations Ahead is happy to announce a paid internship position for 2019. Resumes can be emailed directly to Lisa Daleiden-Brugman, admin@sevengenerationsahead.org.
Position runs from June 17 – August 9 and the grant amount is $3300 before taxes. Work description and requirements are below. Please email Lisa with any questions.
EEAI Professional Development Events - March 2019
EEAI (Environmental Education Association of Illinois) hosts an annual professional development conference. This year's event will be on March 21-23rd in Mattoon, IL. It includes keynote speakers, field trips, workshops, concurrent sessions, and entertainment. I have been awarded a grant to offer undergraduate and graduate student scholarships. Students have the opportunity to apply for a full conference scholarship along with a small $50 lodging stipend to help cover the costs of traveling to Mattoon. This conference will include several great sessions for pre-service educators and many opportunities for the students to network and connect with professionals in a wide variety of fields. More information about the conference can be found on our website - https://www.eeai.net/annual-conference.html.
Secondly, there is an amazing opportunity for faculty coming up this spring. Details are below and I have attached a flyer that you can share with other science and education faculty.
Project Learning Tree: University Faculty Training for Teacher Preparation is a specialized professional development opportunity for faculty and instructors who are interested in integrating Project Learning Tree®(PLT) into methods and content classes for pre-service educators or teachers in training.
Project Learning Tree is an environmental education program that was designed by educators to be used by educators. It is interdisciplinary, providing hands-on activities for science, reading, math, language arts, social studies, art and music. PLT is fully aligned with state and national standards and strongly supports STEM learning.
Become a certified Project Learning Tree faculty provider. Participants will experience PLT through hands-on indoor and outdoor activities, receive both the PLT PreK-8 Environmental Education Guide as well at the PLT Early Childhood Guide and Music CD. Training instructors work(ed) in higher education and formal education administration settings. Lunch is provided as well as a $100 stipend. Space is limited—University and college faculty/instructor teams are encouraged to attend and will be given registration preference.
· Date: March 29, 2019
· Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
· Location: Lewis University—Academic Building Dining Room
Learn more about Project Learning Tree at PLT.org
Undergraduate Student Research Assistant Opening
Position available – Undergraduate Student Research Assistant
We are looking for an undergraduate research assistant for spring semester to help with a project examining food insecurity on campus. This is a paid position, 10 – 12 hours per week scheduled according to your own time availability. The research assistant will help with distribution of an online Qualtrics survey to students on campus. Applicants must be willing to talk to students on campus in a variety of setting including but not limited to classrooms, commons areas (library, student center, etc), diversity centers and tabling events in public spaces on campus. If you are interested, please send your name, a short resume, your semester class and work schedule, and contact information to Dr. Courtney Gallaher @ cgallaher@niu.edu or Dr. Kristen Borre @ kborre@niu.edu.
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Tyson Foods Community Internship Program
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See National Geographic Live in Chicago with NIU
Travel with an NIU Expert: National Geographic Live: Pink Boots & A Machete – Thursday, January 24, 2019
Join NIU Continuing & Professional Education and an NIU expert to visit the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago to see National Geographic Live: Pink Boots & a Machete! On Thursday, January 24, 2019. We will depart DeKalb at 2:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Prior to the show participants can eat dinner and shop on their own. We also offer an NIU Naperville option for pick-up.
Students are discounted to be only $49 with bus travel, Lifelong Learning Institute members and NIU Alumni are only $75 and the regular registration rate is $99.
To register now call 815-753-0277 or register online athttp://go.niu.edu/boots
This evening features Mireya Mayor, a former NFL cheerleader that became a primatologist that co-discovered the world’s smallest primate in Madagascar and is an Emmy Award-nominated wildlife correspondent for National Geographic. Mayor is going to discuss her challenges growing up as the daughter of Cuban immigrants and yet continued to follow her dreams with a backpack, notebook, and hiking boots.
Laurie Spencer, MA in Physical Anthropology and PhD student in Biological Sciences, is attending the trip as the NIU expert to speak to registrants on the bus ride to the event. She has worked as a primate animal keeper and research intern at Lincoln Park Zoo. She conducted fieldwork in Tsinjoarivo, Madagascar.
Students are $49, NIU Lifelong Learning Institute members and NIU Alumni are $75 and regular registration rate is $99. The fee includes transportation and a ticket to the show. Dinner and shopping is on your own in Chicago.
Thursday, January 24 at 2:30 PM to 11:00 PM
Holmes Student Center, bus pick up will be at East Entrance on Normal Road. 600 Lucinda Ave, DeKalb, IL 60115
There is an additional pick-up possibility at NIU Naperville as well.
NIU Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP)
Applications for SROP are currently available for students and have a deadline of Monday, March 11. This program is aimed at underrepresented minority students and students who have not yet had an opportunity to engage in a formal undergraduate research program at NIU.
Ecological Restoration Summer Internship
For more information and to apply, visit: https://www.illinoisdiversity.com/j/t-Internship-Ecological-Restoration-Technician-Intern-e-Encap-Inc-l-DeKalb,-IL-jobs-j35537119.html?pbid=68309
Ecological Restoration Technician Intern at ENCAP, Dekalb, IL
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Ecological Restoration Technician Intern at ENCAP, Dekalb, IL
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintaining a safe and clean work environment, on job sites, during travel, and within the shop through control and proper use/maintenance of physical material inventories, machines, equipment, tools, and PPE.
- Implement and follow ENCAP Safety Manual policies and procedures including weekly toolbox talks, enforcement of PPE use and maintenance, etc.
- Maintain a high level of professional conduct and a positive attitude while supervising staff, and while interacting with the public and ENCAP clients.
- Be familiar with and practice safe and proper operation of small power equipment, such as weed eaters, chainsaws, cut saws, compactors, backpack blowers, etc.
- Native restoration services including herbicide application (with license), cutting/mowing, hand weeding, native seed installation, native plug installation, native tree and shrub installation, installation of erosion control blanket and other erosion control practices and prescribed burns.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- High School graduate or GED.
- Must be able to perform manual labor, operate small tools such as chainsaws, weed eaters, and back pack blowers, etc.
- Must be able to lift and carry up to 100 Lbs. and navigate rugged and uneven terrain on foot.
- Must be able to follow oral and/or written instructions, work outdoors in variable and rugged conditions, and establish effective working relationships with other employees, officials and the general public.
- Must possess or be able to possess within 3 months of employment an Illinois Pesticide Applicator License.
- Plant identification skills
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Student Research Grants
The Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) are accepting applications for student research grants for students doing research in wetlands.
For more information visit: https://www.sws.org/Awards-and-Grants/student-research-grants.html
To apply, visit: https://fs24.formsite.com/SWS2015/form43/index.html
For more information visit: https://www.sws.org/Awards-and-Grants/student-research-grants.html
To apply, visit: https://fs24.formsite.com/SWS2015/form43/index.html
MN Department of Natural Resources - 2019 Paid Internships
Good morning! The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is a vibrant, diverse state agency with more than 3,000 professionals dedicated to conserving and managing Minnesota’s natural resources. Over the next month, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will be accepting applications for over 200 paid summer internships.
DNR interns gain resume-building hands-on expertise and build professional contacts while earning $15 per hour. Internships may also qualify for college credit. Internships are available across Minnesota.
Opportunities are available in the following areas:
· Ecological & Water Resources
· Fish & Wildlife
· Forestry
· Parks & Trails
· Operations Services Division
Free Online Course: Environmental Law and Journalism about Green Rights
The Human Right to a Healthy World starting this Wednesday, January 9, 2019.
The course is a collaboration between renowned Canadian environmental author and educator Silver Donald Cameron and me. The course will use Dr. Cameron’s unique collection of in-depth video interviews with leading environmental lawyers and defenders around the world—available via The Green Interview website—as a springboard to explore the legal, moral and social issues surrounding the global environmental rights movement. Available live online and for archived viewing at your leisure, the course is offered through Cape Breton University in a free “curiosity” version. If you want an official record of your participation, a non-credit “certificate of participation” version is available for $75 Canadian.
The course meets every Wednesday at 12:30-2:00 pm Eastern time for twelve weeks, starting January 9. It is taught by Dr. Cameron at Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia, Canada, with frequent guest appearances by me from the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The course will also feature live video appearances by several of the environmental lawyers who have been interviewed for The Green Interview, including (if all goes to plan) Professor David Boyd (the current UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment), Marjan Minnesma (Director of the Urgenda Foundation), Tony Oposa (who needs no introduction to this list), and Professor John Borrows (a leading indigenous legal thinker).
The course integrates law and journalism in a highly innovative way, using the personal stories of remarkable environmental lawyers to bring issues of human rights, rights of Nature, public interest lawyering and environmental activism to life in a highly relatable way. Issues and stories to be covered include the history and theory of green rights; holding governments to account (including the Mendoza case in Argentina and the Urgenda case in the Netherlands); holding industry to account (the Chevron/Ecuador saga), the lives and deaths of environmental defenders; parties, standing and novel legal theories (including atmospheric trust litigation and rights of future generations); wild law and the rights of Nature; the law of Ecocide; and indigenous laws of nature.
The online course is accompanied by for-credit course offerings in the JD program at the Allard School of Law and a senior undergraduate political science course at Cape Breton University.
Summer Research Opportunity - LAKES REU
LAKES REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program is looking to recruit students for this summer. The topic of the program is interdisciplinary research into sustainable watershed management. Students receive a $4000 stipend for the 8-week program and a great research experience.
They are looking to work with geography students with interests in community based watershed management, rural geography, agriculture and land use. There is mixed research methods used - qualitative research and GIS. The research could include: interviews with land managers and conservationists, archival research in the history of land use, or GIS and modeling of erosion risks and sites for potential restoration.
For more information and to apply, visit: wstout.edu/academics/colleges-schools/college-arts-communication-humanities-and-social-sciences/social-science-department/social-science-research-center/lakes-undergraduate-research-experience
Location: Menomonie, Wisconsin
Applications are due February 3rd, 2019.
They are looking to work with geography students with interests in community based watershed management, rural geography, agriculture and land use. There is mixed research methods used - qualitative research and GIS. The research could include: interviews with land managers and conservationists, archival research in the history of land use, or GIS and modeling of erosion risks and sites for potential restoration.
For more information and to apply, visit: wstout.edu/academics/colleges-schools/college-arts-communication-humanities-and-social-sciences/social-science-department/social-science-research-center/lakes-undergraduate-research-experience
Location: Menomonie, Wisconsin
Applications are due February 3rd, 2019.
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Application for SISE 2019 Now Open
In partnership with
Argonne National Laboratory; Clean Energy Trust; Institute for Sustainability
& Energy at Northwestern (Northwestern University); Loyola University; UI
LABS; University of Chicago; Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
About SISE
The Summer Institute on Sustainability
and Energy (SISE) is a two-week "boot camp" for future
decision makers eager to join the sustainability and energy revolution
happening around the globe. Held annually since 2011, the program boasts over
400 alumni. During weekdays, SISE'ers participate in high-level talks, visit
energy and sustainability sites, and network. During evenings and weekends,
they work collaboratively on a research project and enjoy exploring Chicago.
Theme
This year’s theme, Implementation,
moves beyond the “what” to the “how.” Building on the research of previous
years, 2019 SISE Fellows will engage with Chicago communities and collaborators
to develop critical strategies to help local neighborhoods realize their vision
for their future. They will engage with
theory and case studies, and then move to the streets and homes of our Chicago
neighbors and communities where real change is made at the ground level.
Applicants
Participants (SISE'ers) from around the country join SISE at the University of Illinois at Chicago. SISE'ers are chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants from across the country. Diversity is one of the strongest features of the program, with participants representing a broad range of backgrounds and expertise. They live together. They research together. They become a part of our extended and international "SISE family."
Participants (SISE'ers) from around the country join SISE at the University of Illinois at Chicago. SISE'ers are chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants from across the country. Diversity is one of the strongest features of the program, with participants representing a broad range of backgrounds and expertise. They live together. They research together. They become a part of our extended and international "SISE family."
Cost and Support
· There is no program fee.
· Lodging is provided for all participants.
· Transportation support is provided to many participants.
How to Apply
· Senior-level undergraduates (as of the fall of 2018), graduate
students, recent graduates, and professionals working in the fields of
sustainability and energy are eligible to apply
· The application process
includes:
1. An online application
2. a resume/CV
3. one letter of recommendation
4. a short Skype/Google Hangouts interview
1. An online application
2. a resume/CV
3. one letter of recommendation
4. a short Skype/Google Hangouts interview
· Applications are accepted through May 30; interviews must be
completed by June 15
If you have any questions or concerns, please
contact the SISE Program Coordinator, Thomas Aláan (uic.sise.admissions@gmail.com), and visit the SISE
website at uicsise.com.
We hope to see you in Chicago this summer!
We hope to see you in Chicago this summer!
EPA Job Openings
Student Trainee
(Physical Science/Engineering/Life Science) (Engineering/Physical Science/Life
Science)
Agency:Environmental
Protection AgencyNumber of Job Opportunities & Location(s): MANY vacancies - Chicago, Illinois
Salary: $32,978.00 to $47,967.00 / Per Year
Series and Grade: GS-1399/0499/0899-04/05
Open Period: Thursday, December 27, 2018 to Thursday, January 3, 2019
Position Information: Part-time - Duration of appointment determined in participant agreement.
Who May Apply: Open to the public, Students
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