Creek Critters Outreach Intern

The Audubon Naturalist Society's Conservation Program seeks one or more interns to help with our Creek Critters outreach program.

Hours per week: Flexible, average 20, including weekend outreach events
Duration of internship: Flexible, April 2018 – August 2018. Ideal candidate will live in the region and be able to plan and execute 1-2 Creek Critters events per week on average throughout spring and summer.
Intern Supervisor: Gregg Trilling, Creek Critters Program Manager
Salary and Benefits: This internship is paid at the rate of $11.50/hr. Benefits include:

• Free ANS membership for one year
• 20% discount for ANS adult programs.
• If space is available, free participation in ANS adult programs.
• 20% discount at Sanctuary Shop.
• Opportunity to participate in staff and committee meetings
• Opportunity to interview the ANS Executive Director and other staff

Responsibilities: The Creek Critters Outreach Intern will work with the Creek Critters Program Manager to plan, run, and evaluate community-based stream monitoring events with partner organizations.

Qualifications: 
Required qualifications include:

• fast learner and excited to learn skills quickly
• an interest in and commitment to environmental protection and/or science
• good people skills and ability to relate to and speak in front of a wide variety of audiences
• facility with technology such as smartphone apps, databases, blogs, social media
• Acess to a car.
• Must have own iOS or Android smartphone

Desired qualifications include, in any combination: 

• aquatic macroinvertebrate identification
• database programming and data/chart visualization of a Salesforce database
• knowledge of any of the following: stream ecology and/or hydrology, watershed health, green infrastructure, stormwater management. 
• social media marketing and/or blogging 
• photo or video editing skills
• knowledge of communities in DC, Montgomery, Prince George’s, and/or Fairfax counties

Location and Transportation Woodend Nature Sanctuary – 8940 Jones Mill Road, Chevy Chase, MD 20815

Send resume and short cover letter to gregg.trilling@anshome.org

Become a Chesapeake Conservation Corps Member!

The Chesapeake Bay Trust anticipates placing 30-35 Corps Members with nonprofit organizations and government agencies throughout the region to work fulltime for a stipend-support year of service ($18,000) beginning on August 21, 2018.

Each year, the Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program places young adults (ages 18-25) with nonprofit or government agencies to work fulltime in the environmental field for a one-year term of paid service in the Chesapeake Bay region. The Corps Members receive hands-on green job and leadership experience through on-the-ground experience leading and assisting with projects and programs for their host sites, extensive trainings hosted by the Trust and other service-learning opportunities including grant writing and project management.

Corps Members also develop meaningful connections and friendships with each other creating a network of young environmental professionals that is a powerful resource even after the yearlong term. Ultimately the Corps Program aims to empower young professionals to take action and make impactful change as leaders and experts in their respective career fields.

Qualifications:

• Corps Members will be between the ages of 18-25.
• Each Corps Member will work fulltime at a Host Organization for a period of one year.
• Corps Members will participate in at least one conference, five trainings, and three project days within the service year.
• Corps Members must complete a capstone project by the end of their service year.
• Corps Members must complete at least four site visits at fellow Corps Member’s host sites.

How to Apply?:
Applications are currently OPEN. The deadline is April 13, 2018 at 5:00 pm.

List of Potential Host Organizations:
A list of the potential Host Organizations and short descriptions of the positions offered will be listed here after their March 9th deadline.

For more information or to apply please visit: https://cbtrust.org/prospective/

GENEDGE ISAT Course for Fall 2018 - Problems in Production Systems

Are you a rising JUNIOR or SENIOR?  Would you like to be part of a multi-disciplinary team and gain hands-on, real-world problem solving experience?

If you have successfully completed a 200-level (or above) statistics course, apply now to be part of the Fall 2018 offering of ISAT 480: Problems in Production Systems.

Work with a small team to deliver real, measurable results for a local production company by:

• Collecting and analyzing data
• Identifying and evaluating alternatives, and 
• Proposing solutions that eliminate problems and mitigate risk

Interested?  Prepare a brief response to each of the following four items, and submit your online application no later than 5:00 pm on Tuesday, April 17th.

1. What is your interest in taking this course?
2. Describe your experience working on projects outside of class.  (Work experience, internship, student organization, etc.)
3. What knowledge, skills and abilities do you bring to a multi-disciplinary team?
4. Please list any additional certifications, languages, software/hardware or other skills that you possess.  (Be specific and avoid using abbreviations.)

Each response is limited to a maximum of 800 characters.   When you’re ready, submit your application here: http://jmu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0HbJ1pNZ8KOKm7H

Due to the limited number of projects available, enrollment will be capped at 12 students and remaining students will be placed on a wait list and contacted over the summer if additional projects are confirmed.

Chesapeake Forests Program Intern - Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Forests Program Intern will be based in the Richmond office and focus primarily on supporting program staff in the Chesapeake Forest Program. The Chesapeake Forest program staff develop and implement programs that improve the health of existing forests, create new forests in places important to Chesapeake residents, and communicate the benefits of forests to residents, governments and businesses. Based in Richmond, the intern will support forest program efforts for across the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The intern will support staff primarily in the management of the Alliance’s forest landowner outreach program, Forests for the Bay (https://www.forestsforthebay.org).

Activities: 

• Assist with online/social media communications, article writing to promote programs, and website development and maintenance.
• Support staff in curating and sending out monthly Forests for the Bay newsletter.
• Assist in preparation and attend outreach and volunteer events. Outreach may include tabling events, door-to-door canvasing, tree plantings, invasive plant pulling, and riparian forest buffer maintenance.

Qualifications:

• Possess a strong work and environmental ethic, and a strong interest in outreach and education.
• Good writing abilities and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge and experience with social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress blogs.
• Superb organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Background in forestry, forest ecology, forest management, and/or wildlife management preferred

Work schedule and time commitment:
The office is open Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 5:00 pm. Volunteer work hours may be flexible within this schedule in agreement with the supervisor. Some after-hours, weekend work, and day trips may be required. A minimum of 10 hours per week of volunteer service are expected for this position. The position agreement is for three to six months or until school requirements are satisfied. The commitment may extend depended on the needs of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and the performance of the volunteer.

The internship may start on a rolling basis beginning in May 2018 through August 2018. Start and end dates are flexible.

For more information or to apply please visit: https://www.allianceforthebay.org/2017/11/volunteer-position-description-chesapeake-forests-program-intern-va-office/

Water Quality Program Intern - Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay (Alliance) is a regional nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring together individuals, organizations, businesses and governments to find collaborative solutions, to build a strong commitment to stewardship, and to deliver innovative, broadly-supported programs that benefit the land, waters and residents of the Chesapeake Bay. The Alliance implements local programs that connect people to their local river and become directly involved in local restoration efforts. The Alliance was founded in 1971 and has offices in Annapolis, MD, Camp Hill, PA, and Richmond, VA.

The Water Quality Program Intern will be based in the Richmond office and focus on promoting Alliance programs through a variety of communication channels. The main focus will include our water quality monitoring programs RiverTrends and the Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative (volunteer water quality monitoring). RiverTrends is the Alliance’s citizen water quality monitoring program and is a regional network of over 50 trained volunteers who perform monthly water quality tests that help track the condition of local waterways the flow into the Chesapeake Bay. The Alliance has been coordinating RiverTrends for over 30 years in partnership with DEQ. The Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative is larger effort to integrate volunteer-based water quality and macroinvertebrate monitoring data into the Chesapeake Bay Program parnterhsip.

Activities:

• Become a RiverTrends certified monitor and set up a site for the Alliance to conduct water quality monitoring.
• Assist with RiverTrends certification trainings.
• Assist with data entry and quality assurance checks for citizen water quality monitoring program and streamwalk program.
• Assist with data conversion from our current access database into our new Chesapeake Data Explorer.
• Assist with research and outreach to current monitoring groups throughout Virginia to engage them in the Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative.
• Assist with outreach to find new monitoring groups and expand the program in the Piedmont and Coastal Virginia areas.
• Assist with online/social media communications, article writing to promote programs, and website development and maintenance.
• Assist in preparation for outreach and volunteer events.

Qualifications:

• Possess a strong work and environmental ethic.
• Good writing abilities and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge and experience with social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress blogs.
• Superb organizational skills and attention to detail.

Time Commitment: The office is open Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Volunteer work hours may be flexible within this schedule in agreement with the supervisor. Some after-hours and weekend work may be required. A minimum of 10 hours per week of volunteer service are expected for this position. The position agreement is for three to six months or until school requirements are satisfied. The commitment may extend depended on the needs of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and the performance of the volunteer.

For more information or to apply please visit: https://www.allianceforthebay.org/2017/11/volunteer-position-description-water-quality-program-intern/

Position starts May 2018 or September 2018.