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Fostering Science-Engineering Partnerships as a Means to Develop “Next Generation” Ocean Observatories
USC Water Institute Seminar
Friday, March 25, 2011; 11:00a – 12:00p; HNB Auditorium
Chris Scholin, President/Chief Executive Officer
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
David Packard founded the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in 1987 as an alternative to the traditional academic oceanographic research institution. He challenged us to develop and apply new methods, instruments, and analytical systems to address fundamental problems in ocean science and to identify new directions where innovative technologies will accelerate marine research. To achieve this vision, Packard created MBARI as an organization that is fundamentally based on a peer relationship between scientists and engineers, and one that enables ready access to the sea. In that light, over the past year, MBARI has cast a new strategic plan that will guide it for the coming decade. Emphasized are four major research themes – Exploration and Discovery, Ocean Visualization, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Ocean Biogeochemistry. Each theme focuses on different aspects of documenting the current state of the ocean and life within it against the backdrop of global change. In this presentation, I will provide a broad overview of MBARI and will highlight a number of ongoing projects that exemplify science-engineering partnerships stemming from our current research priorities.
Ocean Research and Exploration Internship
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We are looking for an intern who could be available 10-15 hours a week from now to the end of the term and possibly through the summer to help with the planning and staging of an international, high profile, ocean research and exploration expedition. Exceptional candidates may even be invited on the cruise.
We are looking for people with ocean research experience, time at sea, knowledge of the field, and an affinity for organization and detail. Someone who can help track actions, create schedules and timelines and handle other missions and projects as assigned and who is resourceful, self starting, creative and good at problem solving.
We can talk about the position being paid or unpaid. You can work from home, but short be able to drive to Pasadena or Orange County as needed.
Email us with your resume and why we should pick you to oceanexplorer@mail.com
Environmental Policy Internship
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NCSE’s Campus to Careers (C2C) Program provides meaningful, paid green job internships to expose college students and recent graduates to real world work experience as well as mentoring and career networking opportunities.
C2C is hiring an Environmental Policy Intern that will work in the Nation's capital to support Pollinator Partnership initiatives aimed at promoting public awareness through efforts in support of the Congressional Pollinator Protection Caucus and National Pollinator Week, June 20-26, 2011, advancing pollinator-beneficial practices on highway rights of way under existing authorities and through amendments to transportation reauthorization legislation, by assisting in research and outreach to Federal agency and Capital Hill staff and other interested stakeholders.
The internship will be based in Washington, DC from late March to June, with the possibility for an extension into the summer months. The intern will be compensated on an hourly basis and a medical insurance plan in included. No assistance is available for housing or transportation (other than DC-based, on-the-job travel).
Tasks and Duties:
Direct meetings with Capital Hill staff, to help inform them about pollinator issues and identify opportunities to add pollinator-beneficial provisions to transportation reauthorization legislation
Assist in literature review on economic and environmental benefits of implementing pollinator-beneficial practices on highway "rights of way".
Assist as needed in updating contact information for Hill staff handling transportation and environmental issues in the new Congress.
Provide telephone and e-mail contacts to Hill staff and others to provide information and in setting up or following up on direct meetings.
Contribute to the development of information and handouts for use in congressional, agency and stakeholder outreach for both highway rights of way and National Pollinator Week.
Work Product:
Provide periodic reports on analysis and Hill contacts and related outreach efforts, complemented by conference calls with west coast organizational representatives.
Produce a ‘final’ report on congressional/stakeholder outreach at the end of the project, including results and recommendations for additional actions.
Skills and Experience:
Coursework in Environmental Studies or Policy
Education and/or previous volunteer or internship experience in some combination of:
- Environmental education
- Public Policy
- Microsoft Office skills:
Essential: Word and PowerPoint
Valuable: Excel
Interested applicants should send an email to C2C@NCSEonline.org with a resume and application materials attached. For more information about this and other internship opportunities, visit www.ncseonline.org/CampustoCareers.
Coral Reef Ecology at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
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courses,
ENST,
study abroad,
summer
GoEco – Recommended Green Volunteer Opportunities for Staff & Students
Further information including project details and organization info can be found at: www.goeco.org
Spring Internships with the Sierra Club at USC
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What?: The Sierra Club’s Campuses Beyond Coal campaign is looking for student interns on campus this Spring. Internships will provide students with valuable experience with grassroots organizing and environmental advocacy. Internship areas may include, but are not limited to: media relations, community organizing, grassroots campaigning, coalition building, and communications.
Responsibilities: Duties may include, but are not limited to: writing for and communicating with media, petitioning, phone-banking, environmental advocacy, leadership development, faculty outreach, administration outreach, alumni outreach, and event planning. Interns typically work 10-12 hours a week, and the level of commitment can be tailored to your schedule. Class credit possible.
About the Campaign: The Campuses Beyond Coal Campaign is a national effort taking place on over 30 campuses nationwide to take college campuses off of dirty coal energy and move them toward renewable forms of energy such as wind, solar, and sustainable biomass. Mining coal and burning coal to generate power is a terribly destructive process. Coal fired power plants emit over 30% of our nation’s carbon dioxide pollution, as well as toxic chemicals that have been linked to increased incidences of asthma and autism. So we’re working to phase out coal—we need to stop mining it and stop using it to generate power. Now is the time to act! This Spring, we’re working to phase out coal in our school’s power supply and replace it with 100% clean energy sources by building a campus-wide movement that will show support for the transition and help our school show its leadership on clean energy initiatives.
Contact: Interested applicants should contact Henry Symons, Sierra Club’s University of Southern California Campus Organizer at (510) 295-7377 or henry@greencorps.org or attend an information session below.
Maryland Sea Grant's Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Estuarine Science
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summer
Apply for Maryland Sea Grant's Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Estuarine Science. It is a great opportunity. Spend a summer by the Chesapeake Bay.
Details
- 12 week program: May 22 to August 14, 2011.
- $4200 stipend plus housing and travel support to and from Maryland
- Applications due February 22, 2011; Apply online
We select undergraduates in diverse disciplines, including engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, ecology and marine and environmental science.
We are particularly interested in supporting talented students from institutions where access to marine science and to research projects is limited and who are from underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Since 1989, NSF has supported bringing students to conduct individual research projects with a scientist-mentor at either Chesapeake Biological Lab or Horn Point Lab of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
If you have any questions please feel free to email or call me (301-405-6373). I apologize for any cross posting of this announcement.
Best Regards,
Fredrika Moser
Friends of King Volunteer Opportunity
Friends of King, a non profit organization that runs "Farm King" is looking for volunteers or interns to help run and manage the school garden program at Thomas Starr King Middle School in Los Angeles.
Students from Thomas Starr King visit Farm King as part of various classes as well as part of an after school enrichment program. While at the garden, students participate in all aspects of garden life from planting to harvesting to cooking and eating. In addition, students use the garden as an outdoor classroom to study science, nutrition, art and other disciplines. Volunteers help plan and run garden activities including cooking, harvesting, planting, garden science, garden art, blog writing, etc. Most volunteers are needed from 11:15-4:15 on Tuesdays. However there are opportunities to help at other times as well including grant writing and lesson planning.
To learn more, please visit our website.
Student may contact me directly at 818-631-5129 or brianscottmiller@gmail.com.
Thank you!
Brian
Third International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 21-22 July 2011 - www.Climate-Conference.com
This Conference will examine evidence of climate change, its natural and human causes, its ecosystemic impacts and its human impacts. The Conference will also concern itself with technological, social, ethical and political responses to climate change.
Brazil is the perfect location to discuss the issues surrounding climate change. As a developing nation, Brazil is not required to set targets for the reduction of CO2 emission. However, they have decided to go beyond that and pledged to reduce emissions to 38.9% by 2020. Nearly half of the world's remaining tropical rainforest lies in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest. The country has already reduced deforestation in the Amazon from 28,000 square kilometers in 2004 to 7,000 in 2009, and pledges to continue the effort to find sustainable ways to graze cattle and allow native people to earn a dignified living.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 14 December 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission.
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Brazil in July 2011.
Yours Sincerely,
Professor Amareswar Galla, PhD
Campus Squirrels of the West
My name is Erin Banks Rusby and I am a biology student at Willamette
University in Salem, Oregon. I am currently conducting a research project
in cooperation with Dr. David P. Craig to categorize species of squirrels
living in the western North America with a particular interest in tree
squirrels on or near college campuses. Our project is called SCIURUS
(Scientific Collaborations in Undergraduate Research to Understand
Squirrels). SCIURUS was born as a ‘model’ science society for introductory
biology students to practice acting like a professional research
biologists and to share insights about the lives of squirrels.
The overall aim of the project is to see what kinds of squirrels can be
found in the historical habitat of the native Western Gray Squirrel as
well as to understand the dynamics of range changes among introduced tree
squirrels, i.e. Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and Fox
Squirrel (Sciurus niger). We are interested in coordinating a peer-to-peer
photo-sharing project among college campuses in the West using a group
pool we organized in Flickr called Campus Squirrels of the West.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Thanks for your help!
Erin Banks Rusby, ebanksru@willamette.edu
David P. Craig, dpcraig@willamette.edu
CBS Corporation - Government Affairs & Environmental Projects Intern
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EcoMedia is the newest addition to the CBS portfolio and provides CBS Corporation with a green point-of-difference for advertisers on our TV, radio, interactive, publishing and outdoor platforms. The groundbreaking leader in environmental media, EcoMedia created a way for corporate clients to make tangible improvements to the environment while more effectively connecting with their consumers and the communities they live in. EcoMedia’s unique business model gives advertisers a "sustainable media" ad buy that delivers an added value beyond traditional advertising. Each EcoMedia ad devotes a portion of the marketer’s buy to fund local environmental projects and technologies - like solar installations and energy efficiency retrofits - in communities all across the United States.
Intern will research and identify contact information for CBS affiliate markets on market target list. Make introductory emails and phone calls to appropriate prospects. Schedule calls and meetings, when necessary. Assist with additional municipal client care activities, including but not limited to hyperlinks to EcoMedia and/or possible local CBS stations where appropriate. Send content distribution for city/cable television and website applications. Research potential advertising/media budgets within current municipal partner budgets, including Tourism Bureaus. Develop contact sheet for CBS public affairs colleagues in local O&O, CW and affiliate markets. Assist in project database management. Update project information as needed. Convert project "leads" into "ready projects". Prepare final materials to present projects to clients. Coordinate projects within government contracts. Must be available 16-24 hours per week. Start date in January 2011. Intern should be self-starting and goal-oriented with a passion for the environment. Additional necessary skills and abilities: Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, Word), Online research, Detail obsessed, Interpersonal/team skills. Please send resume to jennifer.ford@cbs.com.
Seacamp Science Instructor Position
Seacamp Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization offering a unique marine science/SCUBA summer residential camp for teenagers ages 12-17 and a marine science day camp for youth ages 10-13. During the fall and spring, Seacamp hosts schools groups of all different ages and from around the world. Established in 1966, it is located near the most extensive coral reef in the continental United States and in the middle of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Through the use of its surrounding environment, Seacamp aims to educate children about marine science and ocean conservation. Seacamp’s core philosophy is “For all the sea has to teach us and all the fun in learning it”.
Resumes and cover letters can be submitted for review to info@seacamp.org.
Thank you again! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call.
Hiring Committee
Seacamp Association, Inc.
Phone: (305) 872-2331
Science Instructor Position @ Seacamp
