EVST News April 6, 2021 Program NewsEVST Senior Essay Planning Meeting Today, April 6th, at 5pm | Please join John Wargo, Jeffrey Park and Michael Fotos to discuss Planning for Your Senior Essay. It is important to consider choosing a senior essay topic and an advisor this spring to prepare you for essay completion next academic year. Register here. Zoom Link here. Contact Linda Evenson with questions. Yale College Preregistration for Limited Enrollment Courses begins today! Details and registration links here. The Yale Sustainable Food Program is seeking senior essay abstracts related to food and agriculture from Yale College seniors for publication in their Melon Forum brochure. Email YSFP to be included. SAGE Magazine is accepting submissions! This is a great chance to get something published through a Yale publication. They accept narrative essays, photo essays, poems, and other creative submissions with an environmental focus. Questions? Contact megan.edwards@yale.edu and elizabeth.himschoot@yale.edu or sagemagazine@gmail.com. EVST Program Manager | Questions about the major, choosing a concentration, course registration, summer opportunities, details in this newsletter, or the YSE 5-Year Program? Email Linda Evenson to make an appointment to zoom or talk on the phone. EVST Peer Mentors are available to answer questions about the major and summer experiences, and to help you navigate other aspects of Yale. EVST DUS Office Hours | Email Professor Fotos to make an appointment to Zoom or talk on the phone. Office hours this week: Today from 3-5:00pm. EVST Calendar | Check the calendar for upcoming events and opportunities. Follow EVST on Facebook and Instagram and request to join the Yale College Environmental Studies Group and the Yale Blue Green on LinkedIn. You will find former newsletters in the News section of the EVST website and upcoming events by clicking the Calendar tab. OpportunitiesSummer InternshipsThe Farmlink Project is currently recruiting for their Summer team. This is a student founded non-profit working to combat hunger and reduce food waste by connecting farmers with surplus or unmarketable produce to communities in need. Together, so far, they have delivered over 29 million lbs of fresh produce across 48 states. The Farmlink Project is seeking out students from a variety of backgrounds, interests, and passions including: fundraising, media design, farmer outreach, communications, food insecurity research, food placement, software engineering, policy, and human resources. The application to be part of the Summer Farmlink team is due April 9th at 11:59 pm PT. Land Conservation Internship with the Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust | The Land Conservation Internship Program will support staff capacity in the Yampa Valley Conservation Partnership (YVCP) office and help CCALT meet the conservation demands of Northwest Colorado. The position will assist YVCP staff members in completing annual monitoring of conserved properties in the YVCP service area, support the YVCP team with outreach and community engagement efforts, and assist with grant applications and administration. This position will assist the team with administrative tasks and will in turn gain a greater understanding for non-profit structure and governance. Eligible applicants must submit a resume, cover letter or writing sample, and example(s) of previously completed GIS mapping work to Amber Pougiales (amber@ccalt.org) no later than 5:00pm Wednesday, April 21st. Read the full position description here. MacArthur Foundation – Summer Internships – Remote |Lever for Change (LFC), a nonprofit affiliate of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, helps donors to find and fund solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, ranging from racial and gender equity to economic development and climate change and is offering two exciting Summer 2021 internships:
Block Island Program Assistant, RI, The Nature Conservancy |The Block Island Program Assistant is responsible for assisting the Block Island Program: in nature education/outreach programs; trail maintenance and other stewardship activities; performing office duties; assisting in scientific activities and biological monitoring. The Block Island Program Assistant is supervised by the Block Island Program Manager. This is a 9-week position beginning on June 28, 2021 through August 27, 2021. It is a part-time, temporary position (COVID permitting). Housing may be available. Please access the full job description and how to apply here. Apply by April 23rd. Gather New Haven (New Haven, CT) is hiring summer interns. Check out the internship descriptions and apply here. Check out the following internships from last week's newsletter: Pesticide and Pollinators Intern, Friends of the Earth | Apply here.Political Affairs Intern, Florida, Environmental Defense Fund | Apply here.Clean Transportation Inter, Natural Resources Defense Council | Apply here. Intern, Renewable Energy, Dandelion Energy | Apply here. Museum Fellow, The Wild Center | Apply here. International Future of Land and Housing (FLH) Intern, New America | Apply here. Climate Change Policy Internship, Council on Foreign Relations | Apply here. Communications Intern, The Climate Group | Apply here. Internship, Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc (E3) | Apply here. Internship, Chesapeake Climate Action Network | Apply here. Post-GradClimate and Clean Energy Coordinator, Natural Resources Council of Maine | The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) is seeking an outreach coordinator to help promote bold climate action in Maine. This is an exciting opportunity to work with leading advocates, experts, and people across Maine to build momentum for policies that boost energy efficiency, expand renewable energy sources, invest in clean transportation systems, and help Maine communities become more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Working in coalitions with prominent local and national organizations, the outreach coordinator will help build support for legislation that reduces Maine’s greenhouse gas emissions by mobilizing NRCM supporters, businesses leaders, and others statewide. Apply here. Philanthropy Writing and Research Associate, Save the Sound |Save the Sound is seeking a full-time Philanthropy Writing and Research Associate to join our team to take action for our region’s environment. The ideal candidate will be a passionate, organized individual who will become an integral member of the individual giving team, focused on researching potential major donors and writing acknowledgements, appeals, updates, our annual report and other compelling correspondence to our major donors. Apply and find out more here. Younger Lagoon Reserve Research, Education, Outreach, and Restoration Steward at UC Santa Cruz | Under the direction of and in collaboration with the Younger Lagoon Reserve Director, the selected candidate will serve as a Research, Education, Outreach, and Restoration Steward for the University of California Santa Cruz Younger Lagoon Reserve. Conduct field stewardship and biological monitoring, support educational, research, and outreach, and support restoration and propagation. Support teaching, research, monitoring and public service efforts such as, but not limited to, student internships, educational walks, and public tours. Assist with the recruitment, supervision, and training of student interns, student field assistants, and volunteers. Assess the physical needs of the reserve on a regular basis, documenting problems to be addressed (invasive species, evidence of trespass, dumping, erosion problems, etc.) and, to the extent possible, enforce reserve rules and policies. Find out more and apply here. Internal Engagement Fellow, National Wildlife Federation | As our Internal Engagement Fellow your primary role will be managing and improving the ways in which information and data flows throughout the organization. Your main responsibilities include the administration of an internal Updates Blog. Additional responsibilities include migrating emails to a blog post format using a WordPress Content Management System (CMS), and recommending and assisting with platform upgrades. This is a 10-month position. Apply here. OCS works closely with many Yale alums and long-term employer partners, referred to as Preferred Yale Partners. To find opportunities offered by Preferred Yale Partners in the Yale Career Link choose More Filters, and select Preferred Yale Partner (you can also search by location, industry, job function, and other fields). You can also explore Environmental Jobs Sites on YSE's website! Upcoming EventsCitySeed has been organizing physically distanced farmer's markets on weekends; please visit their website for the latest information. The Thimble Island Ocean Farm is relaunching their Community Supported Fishery (CSF) this spring; learn how to get involved here. The Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Sustainability initiative at the Yale School of the Environment invites students and young professionals to present their work at the New Horizons in Conservation Conference. The New Horizons in Conservation Conference is an annual gathering of students, young professionals, leaders, and visionaries. Those who attend New Horizons are committed to furthering diversity, equity, and inclusion and many are from historically underrepresented backgrounds in the environmental field. The conference features an impressive array of nationally recognized speakers who will share their expertise on environmental justice, climate change, people of color in nature, health, energy justice, water justice, and institutional diversity. There will also be workshops on topics such as salary negotiations, effective job interviewing, grantmaking, and grant seeking. This year's virtual New Horizons conference is taking place from April 18 to April 20. The conference agenda is available at here. |