EVST News
November 18, 2024
Registration and Program News
Need course advice? We are here to help! Attend the EVST Monthy Trumbull Dinner tonight at 5, meet with your DUS (their office hours are posted here), email an EVST Peer Mentor (read their bios here), or schedule a meeting with Linda Evenson, EVST Program Manager.
Spring 2025 Environmental Humanities Course Guide: Yale offers dozens of courses each year approaching environmental issues from diverse humanities perspectives. Some courses are entirely focused on the environment and the humanities; others approach the environmental humanities as one of several integrated themes. Check out their preliminary Spring 2025 course guide.
New Spring Courses
YSE courses
- ENV 697: Science for Policy and Practice: A Seminar, M. Bradford
- ENV 794: Climate Equity: Principles & Applications in Global Climate Futures, N. Rao
- ENV 819: Measuring and Visualizing Urban Environments, A Salazar Miranda
EVST courses
- EVST 181: Data Science for Environmental Metrics, Wendling (YCS listing coming soon)
- EVST 200: Scales of Design, B. Mendis
- EVST 300: Canada's Response to Global Environmental Wicked Problems
- EVST 385: Soil Science, Eric Slessarev
Other courses
- ER&M 305: Guns and Geography, L. Gross-Wyrtzen (YCS listing coming soon)
- SOCY 340: Carcerality and the Environment, A. Manning and F. Taylor
Enrolling in YSE courses | To register for a YSE course, enter the course on your registration worksheet for zero credit, then during the Add/Drop period complete a Request to Enroll in a Professional School Course (Blue Form) to receive permission of the instructor and professional school. If approved, the Yale College Registrar’s Office will award appropriate course credit. Note: Additional YSE courses will be added up until YSE registration starts on January 6th.
Reminders to the Class of 2024.5 and 2025: Submit your senior profile for the #EVSTseniorspotlight series here and concentration courses here.
Renewable Energy Project Finance (ENV 635) is open to undergraduates. Due to the class being a SOM/YSE class, students will need to sign up via the following form by the end of November and not through normal course registration. Registering through course selection does NOT guarantee a spot in the class, and the class is usually set before Add/Drop re-opens in January. The course is intended to be a practicum, exposing students to real-world tools of the trade as well as the theory underlying them. In place of a textbook, students will read approximately 400 pages of legal contracts and engineering reports from a U.S. renewable energy project. Through weekly homework assignments, students develop the skills necessary to construct a detailed financial model, largely comparable to what would be used by an investment firm, project developer, or independent power producer. Modeling skills include sizing debt capacity, sensitivity analysis, stochastic forecasting, taxes, and 3-way financial statements. Lectures introduce energy market dynamics, financial structuring, equipment engineering, risk management, and alternative contractual frameworks. Contact Sean Sugiono with questions about the application process.
Upcoming Events
Opportunities
The CC Lab is looking for student research assistants for the spring semester. The CC Lab is a climate non-profit based in New Haven. They spun out the Yale School of the Environment earlier this year but continue to have many ties to Yale. Their mission is to develop and support emergent climate solutions by applying scientific, entrepreneurial, and investment expertise. Apply by November 30. Details and application here.
Applications for the Research Experiences in Southeastern Coastal Plain Ecosystems (RESCoPE) for Undergraduates are open | A ten-week paid summer fellowship position ($6,500 total) | The RESCoPE program is a part of the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) initiative which aims to provide meaningful experience to develop undergraduate students using experience-based learning. Hosted in the Georgia Southern Department of Biology, the program brings together ten undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds and allows them to engage in independent research with a departmental faculty mentor during a ten-week program. Explore the program's webpage, linked here, to learn more about potential faculty mentors, the University, and how to apply. Application Window 11/12/2024 - 03/01/2025.
Summer Opportunities
Behavior, Ecology and Conservation Research Opportunity in Argentina May 26-July 18, 2025 | Dr. Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Yale University and Dr. Alba García de la Chica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina are seeking six undergrad students to join a yearlong program that includes preparatory training during the Spring, field research during 8-weeks (May 26-July 18, 2025) and data analyses and writing up of results during the following fall. Participants in the program will conduct research on animal behavior, ecology, and conservation in Formosa, a province located in northeast Argentina. The program will cover domestic and international travel to and from the field site, lodging and transportation and receive a $4,000 stipend; a first payment will be provided before the program begins, the remaining payments will be made through the program and when it finishes. Contact Linda Evenson for details.
Post Grad Opportunities
Funded MA/MS assistantship: Environmental social science/social-ecological systems in Idaho | A NSF-funded research assistantship is available for a motivated MA/MS student interested in environmental social science and social-ecological systems to join a transdisciplinary team as part of the Idaho wide project, Idaho Community-engaged Resilience for Energy-Water Systems (I-CREWS). The position will begin in Summer or Fall of 2025 and includes one year of support for the student (approximately $24,000 per year), a tuition waiver, funds for fieldwork, and support for travel to meetings. The second year will either be funded in the same way as the first year, or through a Teaching Assistantship. The student’s degree home will be in the Department of Anthropology and Languages at Idaho State University, and their major advisor will be Dr. Georgia Hart-Fredeluces. Send a letter of interest that includes a 1) description of their research interests and interest in this position (including how your experience and skills would enable you to be successful in a team-based, transdisciplinary project); 2) a CV; and 3) undergraduate transcripts to Georgia Hart-Fredeluces at georgiahartfredel@isu.edu by December 13th.
The Palmquist Lab at Marshall University is recruiting for a funded MS position focused on improving climate change forecasts for dryland plant communities through an integration of process-based simulation modeling and field-derived measures of plant water uptake. The successful candidate will improve forecasts of western U.S. dryland plant community responses to climate change by integrating field-derived plant water uptake. The student will participate in field research during the summers of 2025 and 2026 in collaboration with the Kulmatiski lab at Utah State University. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the deadline: December 15th FUNDING: Funding will consist of a combination of research and teaching assistantships for two and a half years. A 12-month competitive stipend and full tuition waiver will be provided. Interested students should apply by submitting the following to Dr. Kyle Palmquist (palmquist@marshall.edu): 1) short statement of research interests and career goals (no longer than 1 page), 2) CV, 3) unofficial transcripts, and 4) contact information for three professional references. Please include: “improving climate change forecasts for drylands” and your name in the email subject.
PhD Position Iowa State University: Pollinators in Soybeans | Fully funded. Enroll in either the Wildlife Ecology program in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management or the Entomology program in the Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology, and Microbiology at Iowa State University. Apply by: 11/29/2024. Qualifications: B.S. .in Entomology, Wildlife Sciences, Biology, Ecology, or a related field. Funding: The student will be supported by a research assistantship with a stipend of approximately $27,000 per year. Benefits include health insurance and a tuition waiver. To apply: Complete this form. Contact Dr. Katherine Kral-O’Brien (kralob@iastate.edu) with questions.
Opportunities in Past Newsletters
- West Virginia University PhD position open next summer or fall to work on a NSF-funded project centered around how the legacies of past forest management have impacted contemporary carbon storage and climate resilience across Appalachia
- The Uriarte lab at Columbia University is seeking a doctoral student to study the effects of drought on tropical forests in the island of Puerto Rico. Contact Dr. Uriarte at mu2126@columbia.edu.
- The Institute for Applied Ecology (IAE) SW Rare Plant Monitoring Technician
- Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship
- U.S. State Department Summer 2025 Internship Application
- Deloitte 2025 applications for the Audit & Assurance Sustainability and ESG Internship
- Fall 2025 application for SEAS master’s and doctoral programs
- Capital Fellows Programs applications and instructions and Capital Fellows Programs
- The Dovciak Lab in Plant Ecology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York
- The Department of Biology at Miami University Masters and PhD
- Graduate Position in Acoustic Amphibian Ecology
- University of Vermont Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory
- Research opportunity at The Ohio State University’s Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
- Bilingual Environmental Education Position in Point Reyes, California
- The Ballen lab at Auburn University seeks a PhD student to develop projects centered around Biology Education Research in Fall of 2025.
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