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Friday, September 27, 2024
Now accepting applications for our winter-break field course in the Caribbean!!!🌍🌴🐠
Please share: Perfecting your Pitch with USDA
Join us Monday, September 30, as MANRRS and UCC@AGNR host representatives from USDA, APHIS for a session on how to best craft your elevator pitch. You'll have the opportunity to practice your pitch and receive feedback from members of USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
Event Details:
Perfecting your Pitch with USDA
Monday, September 30
5:00- 6:30 PM
University Career Center, Hornbake Library South, 3100
RSVP Here!
Alternative Breaks program
Hi Everyone,
The Alternative Breaks program is currently accepting student sign-ups for their winter and spring break programs. I'm the advisor for the spring break experience with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Here is the link to participate - would love to see some ENST students sign up (for any of the experiences!) and thought it might be worth posting on blog.
https://stamp.umd.edu/lcsl/alternative_breaks/how_participate/volunteer_participant
Thanks!
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Seeing undergraduate research assistant in ENST
Literature review of agrivoltaic policies and cost-benefits.
The undergraduate assistant will work with a post-doc and the PI in reviewing available literature on agrivoltaic systems to develop a background understanding of the political, economic, agronomic and enviros conducted with local farmers and energy producers. The position would primarily be based in literature review and analysis, with the potential opportunity to help facilitate and analyze focus groups online survey
The student will work ~10hours/week (students can schedule their own hours) - rate of pay is $15.00/hour - the project is supported with funding from the Hughes Center and Montgomery County.
Please send a short letter of interest and resume/
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Alternative Break Experiences
Alternative Breaks (AB) are week-long service-learning immersion experiences during the university's Winter, Spring, and Summer breaks that address social issues in local, national, and international communities. Students can lead or participate in the experiences, and there are mentoring opportunities for faculty & staff!
Alternative Break Experiences focus on exploring a range of issues including - but not limited to - environmental conservation, education, socioeconomic inequality, healthcare, and more! Alternative Break participants travel to communities all over the country and internationally.
Registration for Fall Weekend, Winter & Spring Break experiences is open!
- Alternative Weekend Registration & Scholarship Application Deadline: Sunday, September 15th
- Alternative Winter Break Registration & Scholarship Application Deadline: Sunday, October 6th
- Alternative Spring Break Registration & Scholarship Application Deadline: Sunday, November 10th
Graduate Fellowships with the Smithsonian Institution
There are upcoming opportunities for Graduate, Postdoctoral, and Senior Fellowships with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. The deadline for applications is Oct 15.
Applicants should contact potential advisors or co-advisors to determine the feasibility of the proposed research to be conducted at the Smithsonian Institution. Potential advisors/co-advisors at SERC can be found listed here.
Individuals interested in working with the Spatial Ecology and Conservation Lab and in developing fellowship proposals related to biodiversity responses to climate change, land use, and/or management can contact me at: NowakowskiA@si.edu
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Justin Nowakowski
Senior Scientist
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
647 Contees Wharf Road
Edgewater, MD 21037
Fall 2024 Sustainability Internship Scholarship
The University Career Center is administering Fall 2024 scholarships for unpaid sustainability-related internships.
Sustainability Internship Scholarship
Application Opens: Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Application Closes: Thursday, October 31, 2024
The Sustainability Internship Scholarship will help off-set expenses associated with an unpaid internship. Scholarship awards ranging from $500-$1,500 are available to help offset expenses.
Eligibility
- The internship must be related to sustainability or with an organization that aligns
with the UN’s organization aligned with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
- Registered UMD undergraduate students returning to campus for spring 2024. Dec 2024 graduating seniors are not eligible.
- A secured fall unpaid internship with a nonprofit or government agency.
- Supervised by a professional in the field.
- All class years are welcome to apply.
Scholarship Application can be found here.
This scholarship is made possible through a partnership between UMD's Student Government Association, Office of Sustainability and the University Career Center & The President’s Promise.
Friday, September 20, 2024
Green Corps Environmental Fellowship 2025 Application
Green Corps Organizer Program - The Field School for Environmental Organizing
Green Corps is looking for college graduates who are ready to take on the biggest environmental challenges of our day.
Learn more and apply on our website!
The planet needs all the help it can get. To win now and build a strong foundation for lasting progress, we need people who know how to organize: to run organizations and campaigns that will inspire the support and action we need to save our environment. Our program starts with intensive classroom training. You learn about issues and campaigns, organizing theory and principles, and skills from recruiting volunteers to staging a media event. Then, you move to a more hands-on experience. You make a difference on important campaigns to transition our country to clean energy, protect wildlife, and more. For example, Lauren Karpinski, an organizer from the Green Corps Class of 2019, brought together a coalition of 40 groups that helped win a landmark solar energy bill in Arkansas.
We’re accepting the top 20 candidates for our 2025-2026 program. Graduates will join our more than 400 alumni who are leading environmental campaigns and organizations across the country. If you’re passionate about the environment and ready to learn and practice the craft of organizing after graduation, apply today!
Not a graduating senior? Add your name to our list to receive updates about Green Corps including summer internships and jobs in the environmental and broader social change field!
Green Corps’ year-long program begins in August 2025 with introductory classroom training, and continues with field placements in multiple locations across the U.S. Green Corps also offers a short-term program beginning in January 2025. Candidates must be willing to relocate. Please contact Renee Wellman at renee@greencorps.org with additional questions.
Green Corps is part of The Public Interest Network, which operates and supports organizations committed to a shared vision of a better world and a strategic approach to social change. Visit publicinterestnetwork.org to learn more. Green Corps is an equal opportunity employer. The target annual compensation for this position is $33,500 (but compensation may range between $33,500 and $41,690 depending on location). Green Corps' benefits package includes medical insurance for employees and dependents, needs-based student loan assistance, commuter benefit program, sick pay (60-80 hours/year depending on location), and 80 hours of accrued vacation. We also offer short-term positions, an excellent training program, and opportunities for advancement.
Nominate Your Field-Trained Student for USGS summer positions
Students contact your academic advisor
If you are intrested in applying
USGS is hiring UG students for Summer 2025
The ESA-USGS Cooperative Summer Fellowship Program is seeking undergraduate students who have strong preparation in biological field research. We are particularly interested in providing opportunities for students for whom an internship is a unique opportunity, and could help propel them toward a professional path in field-based science.
Selected applicants will be offered internships at available field, laboratory, or office related scientific positions throughout the country for up to 5 months. USGS places interns wherever the project scientists need them. Some internships may be conducted remotely.
Students may ONLY be nominated by faculty who teach or direct field courses or field programs equivalent to 40 hours of biological field research training or other qualifying course or program. Students must be US citizens and be undergraduate students at the time of nomination. You may nominate up to two students who participated in your field course/program. Both students should have completed the SAME course or program which you direct or have taught.
ESA and USGS are committed to diversity and inclusion. We especially encourage field course and program directors to nominate students from underrepresented communities in ecology.
Launch of Undergraduate Research Opportunities & Competencies (UROC)
Undergraduate Research Opportunities & Competencies (UROC), is an open educational resource designed by The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) to equip undergraduate students with skills and tools to find and successfully engage in research opportunities at The University of Maryland (UMD).
UROC is now available to the entire UMD community. Undergraduate students can easily enroll in UROC via Open Learning and earn a certificate of completion after finishing four modules:
- Intro to Undergraduate Research
- Undergraduate Research Toolkit
- AI & Information Literacy in Research
- Taking Action
Struggling with focus? Feeling stressed about school? Want to learn how to improve your mental health and relationships?
The Wellness Series
The Counseling Center is hosting drop-in virtual skills sessions on a wide range of topics (16 total!) to support your mental health and wellbeing. Click through the calendar below to find out more about information, including topic descriptions, Zoom links, and times.
Advanced registration is not required. The sessions will close to new participants 15 minutes after it starts.
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Presentation on Solar Field design at UMD AEES - 9/23/24
Potentially interesting for our ENST-EcoTech Design students.
Luke Wildfire, is a design consultant in Baltimore – working as water resources engineer: stormwater, stream restoration, bridge H&H, erosion/sediment control design, etc.
For the last 3-4 years, he's been involved in designing solar fields, first in the coal fields of western MD, and now throughout MD and VA. His largest project is under construction in Garret County, MD – about 700ac +/-, with hundreds of level spreaders to facilitate sheet flow under the panels, 18 stormwater basins for additional stormwater management (SWM), and dozens of sediment traps / ditches for erosion and sediment (E&S) control. In other words, designing the solar field turned into a major water resources effort – which is not the first thing people usually consider when they think about putting a solar field on top of a mountain / reclaimed strip mine.
The site is actually in Google Earth/Google Maps – halfway constructed – which is kind of neat because you can see the level spreaders before the panels are installed.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/
This Monday, 9/23, at 8pm, he will be presenting to the UMD AEES group on this project and the challenges of providing adequate E&S and SWM design for utility scale solar projects.
Pizza will be provided!
Sep 23, 2024, at 8pm, in Animal Sciences Building at UMD College Park campus; 8127 Regents Drive.
Luke received his master’s in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2012 and was an active member of the AEES group there – he recommends the group to anyone with an interest in keeping up with latest in all things related to environmental and water resources engineering.
Sep 23, 2024, at 8pm, in Animal Sciences Building at UMD College Park campus; 8127 Regents Drive.
Luke received his master’s in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2012 and was an active member of the AEES group there – he recommends the group to anyone with an interest in keeping up with latest in all things related to environmental and water resources engineering.
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Luke E Wildfire, P.E.
Project Manager
O: 410.494.9093 | D: 410.828.3082 | C: 412.874.1151
E: LWildfire@WallaceMontgomery.
10150 York Road Suite 200 Hunt Valley, MD 21030 |
Maryland | Delaware | Pennsylvania | Virginia
Sustainable Infrastructure through Innovative Engineering
Monday, September 16, 2024
Master's student opportunity, native plant seed productivity, soils, and Indigenous Knowledge
We are looking to fund a Master of Science student interested to work on an interdisciplinary research project combining Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and Western Science (WS) in native plant conservation, focusing on seeds of plants important to ecocultural restoration of forests. Specifically, the student would be studying the factors that influence seed production in native plant populations, including soil characteristics. The student would be advised by Dr. Cristina Eisenberg, Associate Dean of Inclusive Excellence and Maybelle Clark Macdonald Director of Tribal Initiatives in the College of Forestry (CoF), at Oregon State University (CoF), in Corvallis, OR, and a member of the Traditional Ecological Research Lab and the Indigenous Natural Resources Office in the CoF and part of the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society.
The student would be funded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pacific Northwest Tribal Conservation Corps Pilot Project for Seeds of Success project. This five-year (FY22-FY27) ethnobotany native plant ecocultural restoration project in western Oregon is implementing the National Seed Strategy and Plant Conservation and Restoration Program (PCRP) by following Seeds of Success (SOS) protocols to help ensure a stable and economical supply of native plant materials for restoration efforts on public lands. Our work takes place in moist and dry forests on BLM O&C lands and Tribal lands, with permission from Tribal Nations. Primary activities consist of establishing forest stand survey plots, within them making SOS collections of native seeds, and studying the ecology of the soils in those plots and other factors that contribute to seed production in a nature. The project supports several Native American graduate students in natural resources in the OSU CoF. Our project is helping strengthen BLM conservation stewardship by expanding public land inter-cultural collaboration to build resilience to climate change and improve pollinator and wildlife habitat. We are helping advance awareness of how IK can help increase forest ecological resiliency, conservation, and sustainability. Our work is benefitting the American public, including Indigenous Peoples, by raising awareness of Tribal sovereignty and self-determination and establishing guidelines for working with Tribal Nations in a fair, equitable, and just manner. We are advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) by providing opportunities for underserved young adults and their communities to benefit via STEM education, jobs, and influx of resources.
All work is being done in partnership with Tribal Nations. Fundamental values of our project are cultural humility, reciprocity, and a Seventh-Generation approach. In keeping with Indigenous values, we use research methods that are as respectful as possible of the forest ecosystems in which we work. To qualify for this position, besides academic excellence, field experience working with plants in forest ecosystems, and critical thinking skills, a prospective student will need to embody the values described above. Our research is informed by braiding together IK and WS, with equal respect. Students with previous experience working with Tribal Nations will be prioritized. The graduate student will be expected to conduct fieldwork during seed production season (June – September) within the Coast Range and western slope of the Cascade Range of western Oregon.
This fully-funded, 2-year, MS degree includes full tuition waiver, stipend, and research funding. We need someone able to begin no later than January of 2025.
For further information please contact Dr. Cristina Eisenberg: cristina.eisenberg@oregonstate.edu
Cristina Eisenberg, PhD
she/her/ella/hers
Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence
Maybelle Clark Macdonald Director of Tribal Initiatives in Natural Resources
Oregon State University | College of Forestry | 311 Peavy Forest Science Center | Corvallis, OR 97331
541-737-4160 | https://directory.forestry.oregonstate.edu/people/eisenberg-cristina
https://www.forestry.oregonstate.edu/inro
https://tek.forestry.oregonstate.edu/
I am committed to taking people and the institutions with whom I work beyond the land acknowledgement. I work to find ways to support the self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and their communities and the centering of Indigenous Knowledge and values. I am mindful of the truth that for thousands of years the Mary’s River, or Ampinefu, Band of the Kalapuya have been in relationship with the land where Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon now sits, and I now live and work. I acknowledge that they experienced genocide and forcible removal to reservations in Western Oregon, and that their living descendants are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians. I value the deep relationships they have had with the land since time immemorial and aspire to find ways to honor and manifest those relationships in my work and life.
Friday, September 13, 2024
EPA hiring soon
The EPA will be doing a mass hiring in about 3 weeks, and the job announcements will only be posted on USAJobs for 5 days. I wanted to give you a heads up so you can start preparing your materials.
I'll do my best to send out another email announcement once the job announcements are officially posted. Please review the blurb below and contact ENSP alum Zak Shadid if you have more questions!
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The EPA’s ENERGY STAR Residential New Construction (ESRB) program is now seeking candidates to support innovative residential energy efficiency initiatives.
For three decades, ESRB has set national standards for improving the energy efficiency of America’s homes. Nearly 2.7 million ENERGY STAR certified single-family, multifamily, and manufactured new homes and apartments have been built to date, including more than 190,000 in 2023, representing more than 12% of all U.S. homes.
Successful candidates will demonstrate experience in and passion for building science and green building technologies; program management, communications, and public speaking experience, as well as understanding of the building/development, energy rating, and utility sectors, are also recommended but not required. The position is based in Washington, D.C., and candidates must live within commuting distance of EPA headquarters.
Example tasks include, but are not limited to, the following:
· Support the development of new Versions and Revisions of the ENERGY STAR Single-Family New Homes, Multifamily New Construction, Manufactured New Homes, and NextGen national technical program requirements.
· Assess the rigor of state codes to support implementation of new versions of the program requirements.
· Assist with responding to stakeholder questions from residential new construction professionals in the field.
· Develop technical educational content (e.g., webinars, factsheets, tech bulletins, homeowner guides, webpages) that enhance stakeholders’ and consumers’ understanding of the program.
· Contribute to the development of industry standards that complement ENERGY STAR programs.
Please contact ENSP alum Zachary Shadid with any questions about the opportunity at shadid.zachary@epa.gov or 202.256.7834.
Learn more about the ESRB program: https://www.energystar.gov/
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