Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Virtual Internships

Fanimal will be offering remote college internships this summer for students who are in a bind and need to focus on an environment-related internship or practicum this summer. 


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Thank you for sharing this. I am in a similar position and my nonprofit, Engage Globally, is also looking for several virtual college interns this summer (unpaid). We work on community-led sustainable development with a focus on education and economic development in rural Ghana and environmental education/forest conservation in Costa Rica. This summer, we are prioritizing virus response work.

Please let me know if you have any interested students or would like more information.

US Fish & Wildlife Service Job Openings - up to 100 positions to be filled

Positions posted in the links below, up to 100 may be filled nationwide. This is a great opportunity, and rare that so many are advertised at once. 

Friday, April 24, 2020

Call for applications for the 36th cycle of the PhD Program in “Future Earth, Climate Change and Societal Challenge”

The PhD program of the University of Bologna (Italy), “Future Earth, Climate Change  and Societal Challenges is now open for applications.
The PhD program is done in collaboration with CMCC, CNR, INGV and the Environmental Regional Protection Agency.

The deadline is May 21, 2020 (at 01:00 PM, Italian time).
The PhD program is organized around 4 Themes in the fields of (a) the earth system, (b) impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, (c) Technological innovations for a decarbonized society and (d) Socio-economic and legal studies for mitigation of climate change.
Available positions: 19 scholarships
PhD Website: 
https://phd.unibo.it/future-earth-climate-change-societal-challenges/en

3 scholarships founded by CMCC, with the following different research themes:

- Climate downscaling and oceanography: Downscaling of seasonal forecasts for coastal areas of the ocean
The successful applicants will have to carry out the research in Lecce, after the general courses/training period in Bologna.
This research topic is concerned with the development and implementation of new seasonal atmofphere and ocean forecasting capacity in coastal areas by employing numerical models. The activities will exploit the exixsting Copernicus Climate Service (C3S) Seasonal Forecasting products such as the ones developed by CMCC and downscale them by means of statistical and deterministic (with numerical models) approach in the coastal and marine domains. The numerical models to be used for the ocean will be also the new generation unstructured grid models capable of resolving the coastal geometry in details. The skill of ocean variables from the downscaled seasonal forecasting system will be assessed using observables Essential Climate Variabless (ECVs) to develop and provide user-relevant indicators. The coastal seasonal forecasting system capabilities will provide examples of user-relevant products in support of improved ecosystem management, risk management and blue growth.


- Oceanography and marine pollution: Marine pollution modeling and risk mapping.
The successful applicant will carry out the research in Lecce, after the general courses/training period in Bologna.
Oceanographic monitoring and modeling will be used to study the pathways and fate of marine pollutants such as hydrocarbons and marine litter. In this PHD, advanced modelling methods and risk mapping techniques related to tracing pollutants on local and regional scales. The PhD will also consider the coupling of pollutants models with met-oceanographic transport fields from operational oceanography products such as Copernicus Marine Monitoring Environment Service and downscaled high resolution systems.  Ensemble and multi-model methods, risk assessment algorithms and eventually the support of decision support systems will be developed. Integration of modelling and observing systems for model validation will be carried out. The PHD will further develop the MEDSLIK-II oil spill community model and the CMCC marine litter model. Possible key questions of the PhD are identified as follows: Which factors affect the dispersion of the pollutants in the marine environment? What happens to the contaminants on the ocean’s surface, in the water column and sediments? How do marine pollutants interact with marine habitats? How do they influence marine and maritime resources? What is the rate of fragmentation, biofouling, and sedimentation of plastics? What are the mechanisms of beaching, seabed deposition?
- Ocean predictions: The successful applicant will carry out the research in Bologna. 
This research scholarship deals with the understanding of wave induced mixing processes and their parameterization in numerical ocean models. The final objective is to improve the coupled wave-current numerical model of the Mediterranean Sea in hindcast and forecasting mode. This project is connected to the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (https://marine.copernicus.eu/).

Please find “How to Apply” and details about courses/training here:

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Announcing a NEW Service - Graduation Checkout Session with Career Services

Schedule your Graduation Checkout session with Career Services
Looking for guidance about your post-NIU career planning?  Are you within three semesters or less of graduating? Schedule your online Graduation Checkout appointment with Career Services

Our staff will help you assess your job search toolkit by consulting with you about your resume, LinkedIn profile, interview/networking skills, and job search strategy. Following your 50-minute consultation, you'll receive a list of recommended resources based on your individual career planning needs.

To schedule your appointment, email CareerServices@niu.edu with your name, ZID, major, expected graduation date, and the best days/times for you to meet.  Appointments are typically available between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.  

The Economy Crashed, I Want to Work in Sustainability: Should I Go to Grad School?

Since March 1, the economy has gone from pretty good to really terrible, and experts say it will be a long while before it comes back. In normal times, here are the four reasons not to go to graduate school.
1.   You have a good job lined up—one that will provide the skills and experience training you need to change the world in your 20’s.
2.   You don’t know your general career direction. Which of the three broad directions do you want to pursue? Change the rules (environmental or social justice policy)? Change minds (sustainability education)? Or do you want to change the game (sustainable business)? 
3.   You are sick of academics, and you need a break from the classroom.
4.   You cannot afford it.
What’s changed with the COVID-19 recession? For many graduating seniors and recent alums, #1 has gotten much, much less likely. Facing the worst job market in 80 years, now could be a good time to stay in school, or head back to it. If you do, you will need to find a graduate program that helps you gain real-world, practical experience and build your resume while in school. In addition to the graduate degree, employers will be looking for concrete experience solving sustainability challenges when jobs start coming back in 2021 or 2022.


How to Know If Grad School Is Right for You

A couple of the rules for normal times above still hold in the coming recession. Do not make the investment in graduate school if you don’t know your basic career direction: (1) policy, (2) education or (3) business. You don’t need to know the exact job you want—a good grad program will help you figure that out—but you do have to know which of the three general career pathways is right for you: if you want to change the rules, change minds, or transform the game. (For more on choosing your path, see these videos). Also, do not head to graduate school if you are not ready to put in serious effort in the classroom: grad school helps you gain skills you need, but only if you are ready to engage.
That said, if you do know your general career direction and also have the energy to dig in, graduate school now can be a smart decision. A good program will help you develop skills and experience, build a professional network, and upon graduation, turbo-charge your impact in the world. Rather than flounder in a very bad economy, you can build the track record that in two or three years will open doors to sustainability impact that will be out of reach for your peers.

Look for Experience-Based Education

The central key to a good program? Experience-based education. Sustainability is a problem-solving discipline, and cannot be learned primarily in the classroom. Especially if you are coming right out of undergrad, make sure your graduate program embeds serious opportunities to gain experience and build your resume directly into the educational program, not as one or two month “bolt-ons”. Otherwise, you can just wind up taking two or three years of courses, which will have little value to future employers.
At Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability, experience takes center stage in our graduate education. In the M.S. degrees in Environmental Policy and Climate Science and Policy, and in our M.Ed. in Environmental Education, all of our students complete a 4 to 6-month, high-level professional internship, working at least 30 hours a week. From June to January of the second year, our students scatter across the planet to do this internship work, which then becomes the foundation for their Master’s capstone project. The entire second year of the program thus has a focus on hands-on problem solving.
On the business side, Bard’s MBA in Sustainability is only graduate business program in the world that requires a year-long course in sustainability consulting, and we do it in the first year. From September to May, students work in teams on a sustainability challenge for a real-world business. As in the Policy and Education programs, MBA’s also have a year-long capstone where they work one-on-one with a faculty member to either drive an entrepreneurial vision, gain more consulting experience, or pursue a high-level business or non-profit internship. These kinds of embedded, serious experiential opportunities in your graduate school will be essential for career success. If you want a career in sustainability, do not invest in a graduate program that is primarily just a collection of classes.

What About Affordability?

This is a serious obstacle for many people. The thing to recognize here is that the sticker price that graduate programs feature on their websites is negotiable. Almost all programs provide substantial fellowships, dedicated scholarships, and work study opportunities that can cut the cost of tuition, sometimes by more than half.
For example, at Bard we offer an Opportunity Scholarship for first generation college attendees that can fund up to 100% of tuition. So reach out to an Admissions Counselor at the program that interests you and see what deals are available.

It's Good to Regroup in Order to Build for the Future

With jobs scarce and graduate school not for everyone, what’s the alternative if you want a career in sustainability? Of course, do your best to land an entry level job in environmental or social justice work.
But if in this historically disastrous economy you can’t get there, then hunker down, get the best work you can, and spend the time figuring out your career direction and gaining professional skills. Do this by volunteering at as high a level as you can, and by interviewing, podcasting, blogging, and otherwise staying engaged with environmental and social justice leaders you admire. (In the political season ahead, campaigns are great places to both build skills and your network). And also, take the time away from school to get the mental break you need.

The World Needs Leaders Who Have Problem-Solving Experience

Ultimately, we need all of you working at the top of your game, making a difference, soon, and at scale on climate, gender equity, access to clean water, homelessness, food systems, ecological literacy, financial inclusion, land stewardship, mass incarceration. As humanity works through the COVID-19 crisis, new opportunities to address these inter-related crises will surface. So however you do it, use the next couple of years to tool up with new skills and problem-solving experience, and we can come out of this difficult time on a stronger path to a sustainable future.v

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

AGI Adds New 'Career Compass' Infographics to Growing Collection

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce the online publication of three new geoscience "Career Compass" infographics: Mining Engineer, Geological Engineer, and Outreach Coordinator.

Each Career Compass infographic provides an easy-to-read, one-page overview of tips, suggestions, and strategies for how students can obtain critical skills, experiences, and competencies needed to launch their geoscience career. This growing collection is designed to help students, faculty, parents, and career counselors identify developmental pathways and milestones towards a range of careers based on geoscience discipline or occupation.

These new Career Compasses add to a total list of 19 free infographics that cover geoscience careers including Atmospheric Science, Data Science, Elementary School Teaching, Engineering Technician, Environmental Geologist, Geographic Information Science, Geological Engineer, Geophysics, Geoscience Faculty, Geoscience Policy, Hydrology, Hydrology Technician, Ocean Science, Planetary Science, Science Communications, Science Writing, and Secondary School Teaching.

AGI along with partner organizations and employers are committed to creating defined pathways for success in various industries and sectors. Each Career Compass is constructed using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, interviews with personnel in the occupation, content experts, employers, and research on available student opportunities.

To see the available Career Compasses, visit https://www.americangeosciences.org/workforce/compass.

About AGI
The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is a nonprofit federation of more than 50 scientific and professional associations that represents over a quarter-million geoscientists. Founded in 1948, AGI provides information services to geoscientists, serves as a voice of shared interests in the profession, plays a major role in strengthening geoscience education, and strives to increase public awareness of the vital role the geosciences play in society's use of resources, resiliency to natural hazards, and interaction with the environment.

AGI is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to serving the geoscience community and addressing the needs of society. AGI headquarters are in Alexandria, Virginia.

The American Geosciences Institute represents and serves the geoscience community by providing collaborative leadership and information to connect Earth, science, and people.
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AGI Contact:
Geoff Camphire, Communications
gac@americangeosciences.org

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Earth Week Panels - The Green Program

Panels:  
4/21: Engineering for the Environment
4/22: Reinforcing Responsible Sourcing
4/22: The Future of Energy
4/23: Consulting for Climate Change
4/23: Rooting for Global Security
4/24: Boots on the Ground

Friday, April 10, 2020

Virtual STEM Cafe April 15

Hope you are staying safe and healthy.  Our next virtual STEM Café is scheduled for April 15.  You can find the recorded STEM Café from April 1 on our NIU STEAM website.  https://www.niu.edu/niusteam/programs/stem-cafes.shtml


Our café for April 15, 2020, Wednesday, is Stressed and Depressed? You’re Not Alone, 6:00 PM online via Adobe Connect(We are moving the start time earlier by a half hour since peak internet time is now 7:30 rather than 9:00 PM. The move will help prevent people from being dropped from the internet).

How can we manage the stress and isolation of sheltering in place?
How do we cope with the challenges of working remotely and the anxiety of job uncertainty?
How do we manage household relationships when resources, including technology and space, are limited?
If you’re anxious about finances, working from home, managing the kids or coping with isolation, you’re not alone.

At the next online NIU STEM Café, learn coping strategies and find avenues to get help for yourself or family members with mental health experts from Northern Illinois University. 

Hear from: 
Suzanne Degges-White, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Counseling and Higher Education;
Sarah Klaper, JD, University Ombudsperson;
Brian Smith, MSW, LCSW, Director of the Employee Assistance Program
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To access the online meeting, go to https://niuonline. adobeconnect.com/niu between 5:30 and 6 p.m. on April 15. The presentation will begin promptly at 6 p.m. and will last approximately 2 hours. On a computer, the Chrome browser works best, and you will be asked to download the Adobe Connect app. For tablets and mobile phones, go to your app store and download the Adobe Connect mobile app before attending. You will be able to listen to the speakers and will have a chance to type in your questions.

Northern Illinois University STEM Cafés are sponsored by NIU STEAM and are designed to increase public awareness of the critical role that STEM fields play in our everyday lives.

Our April 29, virtual STEM Café will be The Science behind the Virus. Our speaker will be molecular microbiologist, Pallavi Singh, Ph.D., NIU Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at NIU.

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

UMiami Marine and Atmospheric Science Graduate Degrees

My name is Josh Coco and we wanted to let you know that applicationss are still open for the Master of Professional Science degree at the University of Miami (PhD and MS have closed for Fall 2020, but will reopen for Fall 2021 in September). Our Master of Professional Science degree (take the same courses as Ph.D. and MS students, but instead of a thesis/dissertation, you do an internship/research in the field with organizations such as NOAA, NPS, NGOs, etc. and 94% of students have a job in the field 6 months after graduation) has rolling admission until June for international students and July for domestic. We are also waiving the GRE for Fall 2020 only because of the availability of testing with ETS (tuition waivers will be based on GPA only).  I have listed all 14 tracks below:


Applications can be found here: https://www.applyweb.com/miamigrd/index.ftl







Internship reports for past students: https://www.library.miami.edu/rsmaslib/

Any questions, please ask! I'm more than willing to facetime, Skype, Zoom, Text (561-460-1019), or just chat on the phone to help you out. Excited to chat with you all about the programs!!!




Josh Coco, Ed. D.
Executive Director, Rosenstiel School
Tel: (305) 421.4002
Fax: (305) 421.4711

University of Miami
RSMAS Campus – 105C

Monday, April 6, 2020

Scholarships available for MSc in Carbon Finance

Applications are invited to join the MSc in Carbon Finance at the University of Edinburgh Business School, for the academic year commencing in September 2020.

Scholarships with approaching deadlines:

·        Scotland's Saltire Scholarships: These scholarships are open to citizens who are permanently and ordinarily resident in Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Pakistan, and the USA. More information is available at:https://www.ed.ac.uk/student-funding/postgraduate/international/other-funding/saltire. The deadline isTuesday 1st June 2020, midnight GMT.

For more information on the MSc in Carbon Finance, including on how to apply, see http://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/msc/carbon-finance.

About the MSc in Carbon Finance
The challenge of responding and adapting to climate change will drive trillions of dollars of new investment over the coming decades, with major changes required across the global economy, in energy production and consumption, industry, buildings, transport, infrastructure, forests and agriculture. Following the Paris Agreement both developed and developing countries have increased their commitments to addressing climate change, which will require greatly enhanced capacity in all aspects of carbon finance. In addition, the skills and knowledge developed on the programme are highly applicable to the wider fields of environmental finance and environmental accounting.

Graduates will be equipped for a career in low carbon investment, climate/development finance, consulting, research, or related policy and regulatory roles. The programme includes specialist courses in energy finance, climate & environmental policy, carbon & environmental accounting, low carbon & green investment, and carbon markets, as well as a carbon/environmental consulting project and individual dissertation. Courses are taught by leading researchers and practitioners with extensive experience in carbon/climate finance. The MSc is highly suited to professionals seeking to develop their careers, and also to recent graduates seeking to specialise in this important growth area.

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