From: Rosemary Armstrong
Date: March 22, 2021
Subject: ES Newsletter, week of March 22, 2021


Hi First_Name,

ES Newsletter Week of March 22, 2021

* ES Newsletters are archived on the ES campus groups website/ Resources/ Past Newsletters

The Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Camden Maine: How rising sea levels will affect this coastal town and the importance of community resilience. Lauren Caffe '22

 

Sustainable Food Systems Lecture Series: A Discussion with Farm Workers about Identity, Experiences & Dreams

Tuesday, March 23 6-7pm EST, A rockstar human, Anita Adalja, founder of Not Our Farm, is moderating this panel/ conversation.


2021 Maine Land Conservation Conference  

 For this year’s conference, if FREE FOR STUDENTS and we’ve pulled together a small number of workshops that we think will have a big impact. The topics we’re focusing on are:

Climate Resilience
Indigenous Engagement
Nature-Based Education
Responding to Increased Use of Conserved Lands
 
The presentations will be ZOOM webinars, and will be spread out from mid-March through April.  In addition to these webinars there will be a concert by musician Ben Cosgrove, a coffee hour where attendees can “meet” others with similar interests, (and future employers?).
All sessions will be recorded, so any registrant will have access to the full set of webinars. An anonymous donor is providing free registration to any Maine college or university student.  Students interested in attending should register here, and use the Discount Code BASCHOLAR21.

Braiding Sweetgrass

Wednesday, March 31 6:00 pm

Office of Sustainability's ongoing work to highlight the intersection of Indigenous knowledges and sustainability and develop enduring partnerships with Indigenous peoples. We look forward to engaging in this critical work with you. All are welcome  Register on campus groups

Penn Climate Ventures (PVC) Prize

Do you have what it takes to take on climate change? Register for the PCV Prize, a climate pitch competition.
Eligibility: Open to all students anywhere - high schoolers, undergrads, and grad students.

Energy and Transportation, Waste and Circularity, Food and Agriculture, Wild Card, and High School.

Teams of up to 5 members can compete in a track of their choice.

OR register to watch the panels:
State of the Field Panels on: Waste & Circularity, Tuesday, March 30 8PM, EST
Energy & Transportation, Thursday, April 1 5PM, EST
Food & Agriculture, Friday April 2 4PM, EST
Deadline to Register, March 29, 11:59 PM

 

2021 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference

This virtual conference is scheduled for Wednesday, March 31 and Thursday, April 1.

Keynote Speaker: Maulian Dana, Penobscot Nation Tribal Ambassador.
Connection, Not Ownership: The Sacred Relationship Between the Penobscot Nation and Ancestral Territory

Maine Environmental Education Virtual Conference

April 7-8 Free for students
This conference will feature 30 workshops, plenary sessions, to share innovations, resources and curricula ideas.

America’s West Faces Megadrought. What’s the Solution?

On Point by Hilary McQuilkin and Megna Chakrabarti

The Everyday Chemicals That Might Be Leading Us to Our Extinction

by, Bijal P. Trivedi, March 5, 2021 New York Times Book Review (Count Down, Shanna Swan)

Envisioning Climate Justice: A Progressive Policy Panel 

If you missed the panel, watch the recording by April 10, here

Get Outside! 
See: Maine by Foot

Fellowships, Jobs for Graduating Seniors
Click the title (links) below for more information.

- Bowdoin Funding for unpaid Internships, CXD Deadline to apply: March 31 @ noon. The CXD Funded Internship Program awards students $5,000 grants to pursue internship experiences that would otherwise not be paid. 

-(Maine)The Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation (GOPIF) and the Future and the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) have a limited number of paid internship positions available for the summer of 2021. GOPIF/GEO welcomes applications from prospective undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate interns interested in climate and energy issues. 
Internship opportunities are available in areas including:
  • Climate Science/Research
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate and Energy Equity
  • Renewable Energy
  • Climate and Energy Communications
  • Climate Education and Outreach
  • Environmentally Friendly Procurement
    Deadline to Apply: April 16, 2021
- Watershed Protection Specialist, summer position with the Portland, ME Water District. This p[osition is diverse and includes environmental sampling, field inspection work, limited laboratory analysis, as well as office tasks.  A primary responsibility of this position will be to organize and conduct our seasonal Sebago Lake Beach Monitoring Program.  Some of the non-core responsibilities of this position may include working with our education coordinator and our watershed security officer to help out on public outreach events hosted by PWD. See the attached position description. Deadline to apply: April 23, 2021
- Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, learn more and apply through Handshake:

Environmental Protection Seasonal Resource Assistant, Fisheries - Aquatic Invasive Species

Environmental Protection Seasonal Resource Assistant, Diadromous Inland Fisheries Program
Environmental Protection Seasonal Resource Assistant, Marine Angler Survey Program

-Appalachian Headwaters, a non profit is focused on ecological restoration on mined lands, environmental education, and economic development in Appalachia. They run a three-week environmental and arts summer camp, Camp Waldo, in southern West Virginia, and are looking for college students to join as camp counselors from July 5-30 ($1,500 plus all meals & housing). They also offer counselors paid internships in other parts of the organization (pollinator science, environmental philosophy, communications/marketing, reforestation ecology, native plant horticulture, beekeeping, organic farming, and economic development). Check the website for more information, or contact Katie Warner Asquith (kasquith@appheadwaters.org).

JOBS for Graduating Seniors

Program and Outreach Coordinator, Maine TREE
Deadline to apply: April 15, 2021

Development & Communications Coordinator, Coastal Mountains Land Trust (Camden, ME) Deadline to apply: March 31, 2021

Grants for Change Program Lead, Maine Initiatives, Deadline to apply: March 31, 2021

Land and Stewardship Coordinator, Kennebec Estuary Land Trust Deadline to apply: March 12, 2021

Environmental Education Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy, Santa Ynez, CA Deadline to apply: March 20

Conservation Education Assistant, The Nature Conservancy, Shelter Island, NY

Interpretive Specialist, Baxter State Park, Millinocket, Maine 

Land Steward, Maine Farmland Trust Deadline to apply: March 10, 2021

Maine Coast Semester Teaching Fellow ’21-22, 22’-23 (Chewonki)

Southern Maine Stewardship Assistant, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, full-time, seasonal based in Topsham, ME 

Mount Desert Island Assistant Steward Seasonal, full-time (5-7 months)

Food AND Medicine, Community Organizer

Island Fellow/ Island Institute (2 year position)

Rachel Carson Council Fellowship Program (academic year, Sustainability/Env Justice focused project on campus or in the community). Deadline to apply: April 30, 2021

900 HR Environmental Steward, Maine Conservation Corps. Deadline to apply: March 15, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) Scholars- Advanced Research Projects Agency, Technology-to-Market. Deadline to apply: March 15, 2021

Aquatic Plant Ecology Research (US Dept. of Defense), part-time, 6 month position with possibility for renewal

See Oakridge Institute for Science & Education job search
 

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