Events

Alaska Fellowship Program 2025/2026 Info Session | Feb 11, 2025 03:00 PM ET|
Join and learn about the Alaska Fellows Program and the opportunities available for the 2025/2026 program term. Register here.

2025 Common Good & Creative Careers Networking Event | February 21 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Golden Center at St. Thomas More Catholic Church & Center at Yale at 268 Park Street in New Haven. The event set-up is similar to a career fair, but smaller in scale, offering more opportunity to network with Yale students. Participating organizations will be offering opportunities for students to learn about their work in: education, nonprofit, government, energy and the environment, think tanks, the arts, entertainment, publishing, journalism and more. Register here.

All Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Career Fair | February 28, 2025 at Columbia University from 9:30am to 3:30pm! Representatives from organizations in the private, non-profit and public sectors across a multitude of industries will have the opportunity to connect with top graduate and undergraduate students. Register for this important event.

Organizers of The 9th biannual Food Systems Symposium are seeking RFPs from students working on research or entrepreneurial ventures that deal with sustainability and/or equity within the food and agricultural space and would like undergraduates to participate. The application deadline is February 21^st. Contact Linda.Evenson@yale.edu for more information.

Summer Opportunities

Check out the Summer 2025 tab on the EVST website for Yale Summer Internships and Fellowships, listed below:

Yale Sustainable Food Program's Lazarus Summer Internship | Apply by February 14th
Ingalls Field Ecology Program at the Yale Forests | Apply by February 18th
Planetary Solutions in Clean Energy | Apply by February 20th
Yale-Myers Forest Summer Camp Cook | Apply be February 24th
Summer Internships at the Peabody Museum | Apply by February 28th
Student/Recent Grad Summer Field Position at YSE | Available in Colorado Studying Stand Dynamics and Carbon Storage in Aspen Exclosures | Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Yale Sustainable Food Program's Global Food Fellowship | Apply by March 5th
EVST Summer Environmental Fellowships | Apply by March 7th
Tropical Resources Institute (TRI) Fellowship | Apply by March 14th
Western Resources Fellowship at Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative | Apply by March 17th
Ongoing Compilation of Summer Opportunities for BS Program Students

Yale Funding for Environmental Summer Experiences

Other Internship & Fellowship Opportunities

Assawaga Farms (East Putnam, CT) is hiring for the 2025 season. Learn more and apply here.

The Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund Apprenticeship applications are open. Apprentices are paired to work with a participating farm or food business for a month in the summer. Learn more and apply here.

The Westerly Land Trust (New England) paid summer internship opportunities: Conservation Programs Intern, Sustainable Farming Intern, and Land Stewardship Intern. Learn more and apply here.

Opportunities in prior newsletters

The Sustainable CT Fellowship Program 2025 cohort | Apply by February 10th
Alaska Conservation Foundation’s conservation internships | Apply by February 12th
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's (SERC) Internship Program | Apply by February 15th using the SOLAA web portal
Middlebury School of the Environment Summer Program | Apply by March 1st
Montana Conservation Corps | Apply here
*NEW DEADLINE* Carbon Containment Lab Summer Internship | Apply by March 9th
National Student Leadership Conference TA's Environmental Science & Sustainability and Marine Biology. Details here
Overland Summers | Apply here by March 31st
Rachel Carson National Environment al Leadership Fellowship | Apply by April 15
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) at BIOS: Collaborative Marine Research | The 2025 program will start on August 25 and end on November 14, apply by May 31st

Seniors

*NEW* NOAA Coastal Resilience Fellowship Program | Established in 2024, this fellowship provides a unique, two-year opportunity for early-career professionals to gain hands-on experience and support Climate Resilience Regional Challenge grant recipients as they implement projects that build climate resilience within coastal communities. Project descriptions for each of the 33 fellowship opportunities are available here. Each fellowship offers a competitive salary, medical benefits, and reimbursement for travel and relocation expenses. Exact salaries are listed in each position description. Fellows also receive travel funds to cover the following: a required peer-to-peer sharing event with other grant recipients and fellows in the spring of 2027; project-related travel up to a designated amount; and training, conferences, and meetings that will advance professional growth. Fellows will also be provided training and professional development opportunities from NOAA and their host. Apply by February 28th.

Soul Fire Farm (Petersburgh, NY) Administrative Program Manager | Full-time role focused on program coordination, communications, administration, logistics, on-farm hosting, and data analysis. Full job description h ere and apply here.

Lazarus Fellow 2025-27 position | Applications will be received through Yale’s STARS. Find the job posting and apply here by March 2, 5:00 PM EST. Any inquiries on the application process can be sent to jacqueline.munno@yale.edu with “Lazarus Fellowship Application 2025-2027” in the subject line. More information about the fellowship is available upon request. To learn more about this position from our current Lazarus Fellow, contact fafa.vanha@yale.edu.

FoodCorps AmeriCorps | Details here.

Career Links

ClimateBase | A climate change jobs database with thousands of opportunities posted.

EPA Careers Page | Application tutorials, upcoming events, and information on hiring paths.

Idealist.org | Job board for environmental nonprofit jobs.

Green Jobs

Traverse Jobs | Government job board that OCS provides to Yale College students for free (get code in Yale Career Link).

Request to follow Yale College Environmental Studies on LinkedIn for additional internship and job opportunities!

Resources

Do you have questions about the EVST major? Meet with EVST's BA DUS or BS DUS, reach out to a Peer Mentor or Certificate or Graduate School Liaison, or join Yale Environmental Studies on GroupMe.

Weekly DUS office hours are posted on the EVST website.