From: Rosemary Armstrong
Date: March 15, 2021
Subject: ES Newsletter, week of March 15, 2021


ES Newsletter Week of March 15, 2021

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

Kibbe Science Lecture: A Conversation with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on Climate Science, Policy, and Justice

Thursday March 18 7:00 pm
No registration required- Zoom link
Learn more about Dr. Johnson's work here

Student meeting with Dr. Johnson

Thursday, March 18 6:30-6:55 pm
A few spots left: register here

Bethany Taylor, Bowdoin's Sustainability Outreach Coordinator has accepted a position with the New Hampshire Appalachian Mountain Club.

Send your farewell and thank you this week! btaylor2@bowdoin.edu

Envisioning Climate Justice: A Progressive Policy Panel

Did you miss this panel? See the recording here before April 10!

Don't miss the 2021 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference to be held virtually

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

Concurrent Sessions:

  • Teaching Environment and Sustainability Courses During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic: Transforming Barriers into Opportunities
  • All About Arsenic: Eliminating arsenic exposure in Maine and New Hampshire
  • Communicating Risk to the General Public
  • Maine Lakes: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations
  • Blueprint for 100% Renewable Energy
  • Local Solutions to Global Sustainability Challenges
  • Maine Won’t Wait: The New State Climate Action Plan and Climate Progress in Maine
  • Restoring Native Migratory Fish Passage at Stream Barriers
  • Fish Passage and Public Safety—Multidisciplinary Approaches to Leverage the Best Ecological and Economical Outcomes
  • Advancing Understanding of Lake, River and Coastal Marine System Dynamics Using Environmental DNA
  • PFAS and Emerging Contaminants

Atlantic Salmon are on the brink of dying out in the Kennebec River

Learn more at an upcoming Department of Marine Resources Public Hearing to discuss their Kennebec River Mangement Plan. The hearing is scheduled for Wed. March 17 at 3:00 pm. Register for the virtual hearing, or learn more & submit your comments via Natural Resources Council of Maine's website (by March 27, 2021).
Reid State Park, Georgetown ME

'Maine By Foot'  Get outside & Explore!
Also Internships and Jobs, &
Jobs for Graduating Seniors
 

With Spring Break arriving this week, take a few minutes to puruse Maine By Foot, a website created by Bowdoin's Rebecca Goldfine, that offers a compendium of hikes throughout Maine. Be sure to check out her 'personal favorites!'

- 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. 

-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).
- Land Research and Stewardship Internship, Orleans Conservation Trust,  Deadline to apply: March 19, 2021 (Application attached)
- Summer Land Steward (Regional Field Team) Deadline to apply: March 19, 2021
- Stewardship Assistant (Summer position), Cape Elizabeth Land Trust (ME)
- Summer Camp Environmental Educators, Maine Audubon Review of Applications: March 22, 2021
- Assistant Summer Programs Manager, Maine Audubon Review of applications: March 22, 2021
- Land Steward, Brunswick Topsham Land Trust (40/ week, $17/ hr) Deadline to apply: March 21, 2021
- Seasonal Land Steward, Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire  (SELT)
Dealine to apply: March 31, 2021
- Nature Day Camp Leaders, Harpswell Heritage Land Trust Deadline to Apply: March 31, 2021
- Summer Stewardship Internship, Loon Echo Land Trust Deadline to apply: April 9, 2021
- Pendleton Stwardship Internship, Coastal Mountains Land Trust, Penobscot bay region, Maine. Deadline to apply: April 1, 2021
-  Quahog Bay Conservancy is offering the marine science award opportunity as well as summer internship opportunities this year:
Aquaculture Technician & Conservation Intern Deadline to apply: April 15, 2021 (Application Attached)
- Land Stewardship & Geographic Systems (GIS) Intern, Woodie Wheaton Land Trust (Maine) Deadline to apply: March 19, 2021
- Elected Officials to Protect America (EOPA) National Fellowship (full or part-time positions, 4-6 month commitment)
- Rachel Carson Council Fellowship Program (academic year, Sustainability/Env Justice focused project on campus or in the community). Deadline to apply: April 30, 2021
- Seasonal Land Crew Member, The Land & Garden Preserve, Mount Desert Island Deadline to apply: April 15, 2021
- Housatonic Valley Association River stewardship and Outreach internships in CT, and MA

JOBS for Graduating Seniors

Policy Analyst, Maine Center for Economic Policy Deadline to apply, March 22, 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

Interpretive Specialist, Baxter State Park, Millinocket, Maine 

Science Teacher, Maine Coast Semester Program, Chewonki

Food AND Medicine, Community Organizer

Island Fellow/ Island Institute (2 year position) Deadline to apply: March 31, 2021

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

Job for graduating Senior or Alum

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Attachments:
  • QBC Intern Application Jan2021_FINAL.pdf
  • 2021 Land Research and Stewardship Internship Description (1).pdf
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