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Date: February 22, 2022
Subject: ES Newsletter: Week of February 22, 2022


ES Newsletter Week of February 21, 2022

*Bowdoin ES Program Summer Fellowships- APPLY NOW!
*Jobs & Fellowships for Undergraduates
*Environmental News and Events
*Jobs & Fellowships for Graduating Seniors

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

ES Majors and Prospective Majors—Make an appointment to meet with Suzanne Watson ’89, J.D. Env Law, UNH- at Bowdoin’s CXD this spring semester M-F 9-1.

Email her at: swatson12@gmail.com, 
Suzanne is a Bowdoin alum with extensive energy policy experience at federal (Congress), regional, and state levels. She has worked with regional greenhouse gas cap and trade initiative (RGGI) largely in the Northeast Region and then later with the State of Maine heading up the Office of Innovation at the Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP). 

Summer Fellowships, Programs & jobs


Camp Counselor, CREA Ecology Center Summer Day Camp. Responsible for daily site & group supervision and lesson plan and activity implementation. Application open until spots fill. See attachment for description

The Nature Conservancy positions as Southern Maine Land Steward/ Burn Leader and Community Engagement Fellow. Apply by February 27. See attachment for two additional TNC positions.

Research and Evalaution in Clean Energy Internship- Remote, TRC Companies (New Yrok) Application deadline: February 24, 2022

Environmental Planning, Permitting and Licensing Intern, TRC Companies (New York) Application Deadline: February 25, 2022

National Geographic Internship Portal. Apply by February 28

Energy & Sustainability Summer 2022 Internship (Real Estate field). Application deadline: February 25, 2022 (can be remote) 

Intern, Climate Change Adaptation, Conservation International. Application Deadline: February 28. 2022

Maine & Community Conservation remote Externship,  Apply by February 28.
Summer Research 2022 Analysis and Evaluation Intern (Remote) Partnership for Public Service. Deadline to apply, March 2, 2022

Geospatial Intern (June 2022), ARUP. Application deadline: March 31, 2022

PWD Green Stormwater Infrastructure Monitoring Internship, Philadelphia Water District, Application deadline: April 1, 2022 

Environmental Advocate, Clean Water Action. Application deadline: April 29. 2022 

Natural Resources GIS Intern/ Team Lead, Student Conservation Association. Apply by March 31, 2022 

Intern- Environmental Planning, Application deadline: June 1, 2022 

Associate Environmental Podcast Producer & Interviewer-Fluent French, The Creative Process. Application deadline: June 30, 2022 

Orleans Conservation Trust. Position is open until March 4 or until filled.

American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Internships in Communications. Corporate Engagement, Events, Finance & Admin, Programs, Policy, and Business Development. Apply by March 4.

Ohio Environmental Council Summer Internships, positions include Development Intern, Communications & Content Creative Intern, and Water Advocacy Intern. Apply by March 1.

Kimball Scholarship for students from Cape Cod. Deadline to apply is March 31.

Resources for the Future (RFF) Summer Research Program. Apply by March 1, 

Kennebec Land Trust Summer Internship, Kennebec Land Trust. Apply by March 1.

Youth Conservation Corps Crew Leader  in Midcoast Conservancy, Edgecomb, ME. Apply by March 11.

Research Technician, Maine Tree Foundation in Holt Forest, Arrowsic, ME. No deadline posted

Garden Assistant, St. Mary’s Nutrition Center in Lewiston/ Auburn area. Apply by March 14.

The White House Council on Environmental Quality Internship Program (CEQ). Apply by March 25. 

Also check out:

The ES Program will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Environmental Studies Program at Bowdoin College in the spring of 2023.
To help us prepare, Marieke Van Der Steenhoven in special collections will be curating an exhibit and support programming and is looking for a student to work with her this summer. Many of you may remember meeting Marieke in ENVS1101 when she gave us a presentation on Special Collections. See the description below:

Special Collections & Archives Curatorial Intern- APPLY on JobX (student employment)

Research the history and development of Bowdoin’s Environmental Studies program in the College Archives and beyond in order to curate an exhibit and support programming in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the program. Build your archival research skills while getting hands-on with historic documents to tell an important part of Bowdoin’s history. February 22 Deadline, decision by March 8.
Contact Special Collections Education and Engagement Librarian Marieke Van Der Steenhoven (mvanders@bowdoin.edu) to learn more.


Did you know you can borrow a laptop from the Roux Center for daily use? Stop by room 117 to check out the laptop circulation schedule. All laptops must stay in the Roux Center, and must be returned before the end of the last shift each day. Questions? Reach out to Rosie rarmstro@bowdoin.edu

Environmental Events


** Bowdoin Events**
  • TODAY Ain't No Mountain High Enough, But It's Complicated... Tuesday, February 22 6:30 - 8:30 pm in the Roux Lantern. Join Carolyn Finney, Artist-in-Residence at Middlebury’s Franklin Environmental Center, in conversation with Sophia Danenberg, the first African American and the first black woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest (2006). 
  • Bowdoin Citizen's Climate Lobby meeting tonight, Tuesday, Feb 22 8-9PM, 24 College garage (meeting moving to Thursday 8-9 staring next week!
  • Turn Off the Light Movie Night!  Thursday, February 24 7:00 - 9:00 pm in the Roux Lantern. Give a big last push for the energy competition by turning off your lights and coming to watch a movie with the Sustainable Bowdoin Eco Reps! We'll be watching Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and having a fun time discussing ways to save energy and reduce waste on campus!
  • Biology Seminar: Disease ecology in the face of global change on Friday, February 25 2:30 - 3:30 pm in Druck 020. 
  • Energy Challenge! Throughout February. Reach out to your eco-rep for more information
 
**Community Events**
  • Navigating Change: Strategies and Structures to Increase the Resilience of the Coast of Maine. Monday, February 28 3:00 - 4:00 pm (via zoom) and Career Q&A 4:00 - 4:30. The speaker Suzanne MacDonald, Chief Community Development Officer, Island Institute. MacDonald will provide some examples of the innovation that the institute’s place-based, relationship-driven approach has unlocked in a time of increasingly rapid change. She will also discuss the internal systems and structures that the Institute has developed to ensure responsiveness to communities and their emergent needs – and what it means to center a relationship-based approach in organizational operations. To learn more: https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-navigating-change-strategies-and-structures-to-increase-the-resilience-of-the-coast-of-maine/
  • Winter Garden Workshop Series: Soil Secrets from the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust. Sunday, March 6 from 1:00 - 2:30pm (via zoom). Join Spiro Latchis, Living Soil Network Join Spiro Latchis of the Living Soil Network for a workshop on the many beneficial aspects of soil health. The workshop will cover the fungi and nematodes in soil, soil care, building quality soil and the important connections between soil and climate. To learn more: https://www.btlt.org/event-registration/
  • Dukes of Hazards: Reducing Natural Disaster Risks with Community Planning . Talk with Sam Roy, Natural Hazards Planner, Maine Emergency Management Agency/ Monday, March 7 3:00-4:00 (Via zoom) and  Career Q&A 4 - 4:30.

Environmental News


Listen to Season 6, Episode 1 of Bowdoin's Green Tea Podcast. In this episode, they introduce Nick Sibiryakov, their new co-host, to listeners and share our plans for Season 6! To listen: https://www.bowdoin.edu/sustainability/green-tea-podcast/index.html

Protect Maine's Water with the Natural Resource Council of Maine. Next week, legislators will hold a hearing on LD 1964, a bill to upgrade water quality standards and increase protections on more than 800 miles of rivers and streams, including the West Branch of the Penobscot above Ambajejus Lake, the South Branch of the Sandy River, Orbeton Stream and its tributaries, the Little Narraguagus River, and many more. Submit testimony today to adopt the proposed upgrades and protect Maine’s clean water. Step 1: Visit the Maine Legislature’s Testimony Submission and Sign-up page. 

Ten Ways to Confront Climate Crisis without Losing Hope by Rebecca Solnit for The Guardian.  Solnit writes, "The American left, someone once told a friend of mine, is bad at celebrating its victories. (The same may well go for the left in other countries, too.) We have victories. Some of them are very large, and are why your life is the shape it is. The victories are reminders that we are not powerless, and our work is not futile. The future is not yet written, but by reading the past, we see patterns that can help us shape that future." 

Anne Hallward’s podcast onÔÇ»Climate Courage, on Safe Space Radio

Short video of U.S. Poet LaureateÔÇ»Amanda Gorman reciting her poem, Earthrise.

Check out ENN or the Environmental News Network for more current environmental news: https://www.enn.com

Green Living Commitment

Commit to sustainable living practices like turning off lights, using drying racks, and carpooling and get entered to win gift certificates to local Brunswick eateries! Plus, everyone who fills out the form gets an awesome sticker to decorate your water bottle! Follow this link to take the GLC and contact your Eco Rep with any questions or concerns.

 

Featured Jobs and Fellowships For Graduating Seniors

RAY Diversity Fellowship. Eligible applications will: Identify as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color and demonstrate interest in the conservation and/ or clean energy field(s); demonstrate a commitment to equity, environmental justice, and social change. Apply by April 3. 

Water Policy Fellow, Ohio Environmental Council. No deadline posted. 

Research and Data Analyst, Efficiency Maine Trust. Position open until filled. 

Maine Conservation Voters/ Maine Conservation Alliance, Development and Communications Coordinator. Apply by February 28.

Grist- Fellowship program.Grow as a journalist while absorbing a universe of environmental knowledge. Apply by May 18.

Food Corp Fellowship Position. Apply by March 31. 

Visitor Programs Educator, Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment (Oceanfront). No deadline posted

Stewardship Manager, Western Foothills Land Trust. Apply by February 28

Environmental Steward at Maine Conservation Corps. Apply by March 14.

Project Associate- Development, Encore Renewable Energy in Burlington, VT, No deadline posted. 

Green Energy Consumers Alliance, Policy Advocate. No deadline posted

Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust and Freeport Conservation Trust Stewardship Coordinator. Apply by March 4.  

GIS Technician, Eversource Energy, Dorchester, MA. Apply by March 18 
 
Program Manager: Lake Protection, 7 Lakes Alliance, Apply by March 18 

Nationwide Permit Wetland 401 Specialist, Washington State Depart of Ecology. Apply by April 17 

Youth Program Lead. Cultivating Community, Apply by March 11 

Southern Maine Seasonal Steward, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Apply by March 9 

Be sure to check out:

EVENT

Ain't No Mountain High Enough, But It's Complicated...

Tuesday, February 22
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Roux Lantern, 255 Maine St, Brunswick, ME 04011, United States
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Join the BOC in attending a virtual moderated discussion hosted by Middlebury College. We will have the webinar up on the big screen in the Roux Lantern. See the event description from Middlbury below:

"Join Carolyn Finney, Artist-in-Residence at Middlebury’s Franklin Environmental Center, in conversation with Sophia Danenberg, the first African American and the first black woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest (2006).

Moderated by Teresa Baker, outdoor diversity activist, writer, and founder of the In Solidarity Project, an organization designed to increase diversity and inclusion in outdoor spaces by working with outdoor industry companies and CEOs.

Black Women talking about race and the great outdoors, then and now."

Event Link: https://www.middlebury.edu/events/event/aint-no-mountain-high-enough-its-complicated
RSVP

EVENT

Turn Off the Light Movie Night!

Thursday, February 24
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Roux Lantern, 255 Maine St, Brunswick, ME 04011, United States
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Give a big last push for the energy competition by turning off your lights and coming to watch a movie with the Sustainable Bowdoin Eco Reps! We'll be watching Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and having a fun time discussing ways to save energy and reduce waste on campus!

Check out the current competition results on the dashboard here: https://buildingos.com/reports/dashboards/96006c2c82ba11ec890f02420aff0923
RSVP

EVENT

Biology Seminar: Disease ecology in the face of global change

Friday, February 25
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Druckenmiller Hall, room 20, 255 Maine St, Brunswick, ME 04011, United States
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Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Watershed Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY), Dr. Jessica Hua, discusses disease ecology in the face of global change.

The Hua lab seeks to understand how human activities influence host-parasite interactions. By studying how organisms responses to disturbances (i.e. pollution, temperature shifts, invasive species), we aim to contribute insights to: (1) The fields of ecology and evolution. (2) Conservation, restoration, and regulation of aquatic ecosystems and amphibians.
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EVENT

Sustainable Bowdoin Lunch & Discussion

Tuesday, March 1
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Thorne Hall, Hutchinson Room, 255 Maine St, Brunswick, ME 04011, United States
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We want to hear from YOU! Come join us for lunch at Thorne and share your thoughts and ideas about Sustainable Bowdoin’s ongoing and upcoming initiatives. You can learn more about what we do here at Bowdoin by visiting our website (www.bowdoin.edu/sustainability) or checking out our Instagram @sustainablebowdoin. Your input will help us as we continue our collective efforts to reduce Bowdoin's impact on the environment and together seek a more just and sustainable future!
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EVENT

March Audubon Page-Turning with Bert Filemyr and Jeff Holt

Friday, March 4
12:30pm - 1:00pm
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Join SC&A staff and guest speakers Bert Filemyr and Jeff Holt, authors of "The Composite Plates of Audubon's Birds of America" for the March page-turning of John James Audubon's double-elephant folio Birds of America.
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EVENT

Sustainable Bowdoin Lunch & Discussion

Friday, March 4
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Thorne Hall, Hutchinson Room, 255 Maine St, Brunswick, ME 04011, United States
Link
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We want to hear from YOU! Come join us for lunch at Thorne and share your thoughts and ideas about Sustainable Bowdoin’s ongoing and upcoming initiatives. You can learn more about what we do here at Bowdoin by visiting our website (www.bowdoin.edu/sustainability) or checking out our Instagram @sustainablebowdoin. Your input will help us as we continue our collective efforts to reduce Bowdoin's impact on the environment and together seek a more just and sustainable future!
RSVP


Attachments:
  • CREA Day Camp Counselor - 2022 Job Description.pdf
  • 2022 Northern Maine Stewardship Intern.pdf
  • Community Engagement Fellow.pdf
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