The Natural Areas Program at Metro: Conservation

Internship

Application deadline: Friday, March 25^th

Project Background: In 2006, voters approved a $230 million dollar bond measure to protect natural areas and safeguard Portland area water quality. With this bond measure, more than 2,400 acres have been acquired in addition to the 8,200 acres acquired under the first bond measure approved in 1995.

Besides its Natural Areas Bond Measure Program, Metro is also closely aligned with a coalition of conservation groups developing a Conservation Strategy. The geography spans two states and portions of nine counties. New datasets are being developed; there is a draft four-meter land cover, and we are working on a protected lands layer. We need to improve and stitch together streams, wetlands, and other datasets. Priority areas from various organizations also need to be assembled.

Middlebury Area Land Trust: Trail Work and GIS

Mapping Internship

Application deadline: Friday, March 25^th

The Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT) conserves, promotes, and manages land as natural, open, and working landscapes in Addison County. MALT also provides and supports recreational, educational, and cultural opportunities for the community.

We have conserved over 2600 acres in Middlebury and the surrounding towns and maintains the popular 16-mile Trail Around Middlebury (TAM). Most recently we have focused on protecting and developing important recreation amenities such as Otter View Park and conserving specific important natural resources such as the Middlebury River corridor and Addison County’s clay plain forests. (http://www.maltvt.org)

MORE INFO AT GO/MOJO

GambiaVermont Collaborative

GambiaVermont, a team of educational, environmental, and healthcare professionals in Vermont collaborating with International Service Learning Students at The Gambia University, is seeking Middlebury sophomores and juniors with an interest in international education, health care, and environmental challenges for summer internships in Gambia.

Internship Application DEADLINE: March 15

Check out these amazing opportunities on LACN.

The Lake Champlain Committee currently has two internship opportunities. Successful candidates should have a background in natural resource management and excellent writing and research skills. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are not keen on a cold January, then consider a Winter Term Internship.  Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 7, there are three information sessions.

At 12:30 p.m. in Hillcrest 103, the Monterey Institute of International Studies has an information session on their three opportunities:

• Practicum: Challenges to Peacebuilding, Sierra Leone
• Training: Conservation Leadership Practicum (CLP), Monterey, CA
• Development Project Management Institute (DPMI), Monterey, CA

At 5:00 p.m. in MBH 219, World Camp for Kids will have an information session for their opportunity:

• World Camp Volunteer, Lilongwe, Malawi

At 8:00 o.m. in MBH 438, David Kitson from Biblioteca will have an information session for the opportunity from Costa Rica

• Teaching Intern, ESL/ESOL, Costa Rica

All of these opportunities are posted on MOJO, and the deadline for the majority of the applications is this Friday, October 9.