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The Rubenstein School
of Environment and Natural Resources
News
Vol. XXXI, No. 1, November 2009, The University of Vermont, www.uvm.edu/envnr
THE GREENING OF AIKEN
GETS THE GREEN LIGHT
The Rubenstein School
News, published monthly
from October through May,
is one of the school’s primary vehicles for keeping
students, faculty, and staff
informed. We publish news
and highlight coming
events, student activities,
and natural resources employment opportunities.
Copies are available in the
Aiken Center lobby and the
Student Resource Area (336
Aiken) in the Dean’s office.
http://www.uvm.edu/envnr
At their October meeting, the UVM Board of Trustees approved the
restarting and funding of the Greening of Aiken Project. With this approval
the Rubenstein School and UVM can now revisit the design of the Green
Aiken Center and finish the design development and construction drawing
phases of planning by winter of 2010. The plan is to put the project out for
bid in spring 2010 and start the renovation after the May 2010 graduation.
There is a renewed and exciting buzz around the Aiken Center while we anticipate the new green phase of the Rubenstein School. The project should
take about 15 months to complete.
Editor:
Becca Pincus
[email protected]
ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:
I Believe, by Nathaly
Agosto Filion
Spring 2009 Dean’s List
Undergrad Internship,
Casey Cullen
The LANDS program
Parks Studies Lab
Svitek Scholarship
Thank You Letters
Architectural drawing of a possible look for the new Solarium which will house an Eco-Machine™ to
process waste water. The Eco-Machine™ will be a gift from John Todd Ecological Design, Inc.
SVITEK FAMILY SCHOLARSHIPS SUMMER 2009
Each year the Svitek family awards $2000 to a summer intern to help
defray internship costs. We had 3 Svitek Scholars summer 2009: Eliese Dykstra,
Zachary N. Lance, and Allison Prokop. Letters of appreciation to the Svitek family
are featured in the newsletter.
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THE RUBENSTEIN SCHOOL IN ACTION
PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND AWARDS
Bob Manning published a book this summer titled Parks
and People: Managing Outdoor Recreation at Acadia
National Park. The book synthesizes the program of
research that Bob and his colleagues and students have
conducted at Acadia National Park over the past fifteen
years. The book describes an interdisciplinary program of
applied research that is designed to support a science-based
approach to park and outdoor recreation management. The
book is organized into three parts plus an introduction and
conclusion. The introduction describes the natural, cultural,
and recreational resources at Acadia and briefly outlines
the management framework used at Acadia and the
program of research designed to support application of this
management framework. Part I addresses indicators of
quality for park resources and the visitor experience. Part II
describes efforts to monitor indicator variables. Part III
outlines and assesses management actions designed to
maintain standards of quality. The book concludes with a
discussion of the implications of this program of natural
and social science research, including a series of principles
for managing outdoor recreation at Acadia and other parks
and protected areas. The book is published by the
University Press of New England.
NR 105 Creates Video Celebrating the
Huntington River Watershed
If The River Could Speak: History of the Huntington River
Watershed
Created by Hillary Archer, Isabel Beavers, Eleise Dykstra,
Mike McGlinn, & Christian Ruf for UVM's Spring 2009
NR105 Class (view video at: http://vimeo.com/6895806)
Patricia A. Stokowski was an invited panelist for the
Springfield, MA, Convention and Visitor's Bureau Forum
on Gambling, held in June 2009. She spoke on
“Development and Consequences of Limited Stakes Gambling; Examples from Colorado." Pat also presented her
research on “Discursive Regularities of Place” at the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2009.
Pat was elected to the Academy of Leisure Sciences, September 2009.
Pat and Walter F. Kuentzel have been named the new co
-editors of the journal, Leisure Sciences .
Kate Grimsley-Houran (Senior, WFB) was
selected from winners of the 2009 New England
Outdoor Writer's Association (NEOWA)
Scholarship to receive the Heritage Award. The
award is named in honor of long-time active
NEOWA member Mike Roberts of Connecticut.
From left: Mark Scott, VT Fish & Wildlife,
Kate, and Randy Scott, President of NEOWA..
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PARK STUDIES LAB HAS ACTIVE SUMMER FIELD SEASON
carriage roads), and three types of public transit systems
(Acadia National Park's Island Explorer bus system, the Muir
Woods Shuttle Bus, and the Alcatraz Island Ferry).
Team members included Pete Pettengill, Laura Anderson,
Nathan Reigner, Carena Van Riper, Bill Valliere, M.J.
Anderson, Seton Gruneisen, Kaylee Pollander, Francis
Oggeri, Jeff Caisse, Lauren Chicote and Allison Rooney.
The Lab also continued work on a study of the Lake Champlain
Paddlers Trail funded by the Sea Grant Program. Staff member
Laura Anderson administered a mail survey of Lake
Champlain paddlers and she and Graduate Research Assistant
Kelly Goonan conducted an ecological inventory of recreationrelated impacts at campsites along the Lake Champlain
Paddlers Trail. Special appreciation is expressed to Captain
Dick Furbush of the Melosira for providing access to many of
these campsites. Graduate Research Assistant Rebecca
Stanfield McCown continued her research on the National
Park Service's Twenty-First Century Relevancy program with
Laura Anderson and M.J. Anderson at work on the Acadia
two weeks of data collection at Santa Monica Mountains
Park Loop Road
National Recreation Area, California. Rebecca interviewed park
staff and partners to help assess the effectiveness of NPS
The Park Studies Lab conducted an active program of field
diversity programs. In August, Bob Manning and Bill Valliere
research this summer. This work was conducted under the
traveled to Skagway, Alaska to initiate a new research project at
auspices of several research projects. Graduate Research
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. This study will
Assistant Nathan Riegner led a team of five staff that collected address indicators and standards of quality for the visitor
data for two months at Muir Woods and Alcatraz Island, both
experience and will be conducted over the next three years.
heavily visited units of Golden Gate National Recreation Area
in California. UVM undergraduate students Lauren Chicote
and Jeff Caisse worked on this project.
A six-person team collected data at Acadia National
Park for two weeks in July. This team was comprised
of staff members Bill Valliere and Laura Anderson,
Graduate Research Assistant Pete Pettengill, and
UVM undergraduate students M.J. Anderson, Kaylee
Pollander, and Francis Oggeri. The purpose of this
work was to conduct a survey of visitors to the
summit of Cadillac Mountain regarding standards of
quality for resource, social, and managerial
conditions.
A twelve-person team collected data in several
locations in Vermont and elsewhere on a study funded
by the UVM Transportation Research Center. The
objective of this study is to formulate indicators and
standards of quality for recreation and tourism-related
transportation. Study sites included three types of
roads (Vermont Interstate 89, Vermont Route 100, and
the Acadia National Park Loop Road), three types of Pete Pettengill and Francis Oggeri administering surveys at the summit of
greenways (the Burlington Bike Path, the Stowe
Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park.
Recreation Path, and the Acadia National Park
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FOCUS ON GRADUATE RESEARCH:
South Burlington. This report will help
citizens and the City council make
informed management decisions.
Farther from home, we also traveled to
the Green Mountain National Forest,
which hired the LANDS crew to
inventory invasive species and wetlands to better help
them plan for desired future conditions of the forest.
THE LAND STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM
BY LYDIA MENENDEZ, MS EP, ‘10
Service opportunities can increase enthusiasm and
motivation to do more direct service in the future. I
know, because it happened to me. After my year-long
national service with AmeriCorps in the Maryland
Conservation Corps, I was motivated to return to
graduate school and help create more conservation
service opportunities for college students.
Why is a program like LANDS so important? In the face
of increased use, development pressures, invasive
species, and limited funding, it is more important than
ever that the conserved lands in Vermont be managed
well. The detailed information that LANDS provided to
its community partners will help them make better
My Master’s project in the Ecological Planning Program informed management decisions in a timely manner.
in RSENR focuses on implementing and expanding The Perhaps even more important than the GIS maps and
Land Stewardship Program (LANDS), an innovative
natural resource inventories are the connections made
partnership between the University of Vermont and the
between interns, project partners, and universities in the
Student Conservation Association that connects college matters of real land use decisions.
students with complex conservation projects. This was
LANDS’s third summer, and it was a whirlwind of
The student interns have gained more than a professional
intense outdoor projects: 9 interns and 2 leaders took on experience or a summer of field fun. They have faced the
4 work projects and 6 natural resource inventory projects hard work of understanding our landscapes and thinking
with 5 federal, municipal and land trust partners. A
about how to connect the pieces into an understandable
typical day would find us surveying trails with GPS
whole.
units, mapping percent cover of invasive buckthorn,
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testing the water quality of a Potash Brook
tributary, and mapping wildlife habitat and
mast trees. We also spent many days in the
office, discussing management
recommendations and laying out GIS maps
and photographs to support our findings. Our
findings our published in reports that help
our project partners learn more about their
conserved land and make informed
management decisions.
Selected from a large applicant pool, these
college students have training in a wide array
of natural resource fields and they come
together with the necessary skills to deliver
high-quality products to our partners. For
example, LANDS completed a
comprehensive Natural Resource
Assessment and Management
Recommendation report of the City of South
Burlington’s 110 acre Dorset Park Natural
Area – read the report at http://
www.uvm.edu/~conserve/lands_website/
and hike the protected forests and fields at
the corners of Dorset and Swift Streets in
LANDS ’09: Top L-R: Lydia Menendez (UVM Grad student & co-leader),
Andrea Lauritzen (Johnson State College), Arthur Zahor (UVM), Andrea
Bruno (UVM), Gavin Cotterill (UVM), James Barnes (UVM Grad alum &
co-leader), Bottom L-R: Tim Villard (UNH), Ellen Kujawa (Mt. Holyoke),
Lisa Fredette (UVM), Charlotte Gabrielsen (Hartwick College), Lauren
Bizzari (Colgate)
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I BELIEVE
BY NATHALY AGOSTO FILIÓN
This piece originally ran in the Green
Mountain section of the Burlington Free
Press on Sunday, September 20, 2009.
5
weeks after, especially while riding the
subway, I asked myself what power I
really had to change the vicious cycles in
our society. I concluded I have a choice: I
can choose to give in to fear, or I can
choose to live as I believe is right, and
actively participate in creating a better
future for our planet. The Green
Mountain National Forest, which hired
the LANDS crew to inventory invasive
species and wetlands to better help them
plan for desired future conditions of the
forest.
This is why I do what I do. As a graduate
student of ecological planning and
ecological economics at the University of
Vermont, I live and breathe the fullness
of our current environmental and social
crisis. As a community organizer with the
Vermont Oxfam Action Corps and a
climate activist with 350.org, I dream about and
create a better world through social activism and
civic engagement.
This summer, I was able to combine my academic
I believe we can change the world. I believe each work with my activism through a graduate project
in my birth country, the Dominican Republic. By
one of us can effect positive change in our
interviewing community leaders from towns
communities and that our work is substantially
surrounding Lake Enriquillo, I sought to
magnified when we come together.
understand what kinds of socioeconomic effects
But I’m also a realist. I know from experience that were being caused by flooding that originated from
hurricanes Noel and Olga in late 2007. These
change is tough, and the world is a scary place. I
communities, and many others like them
constantly struggle with the fear that my work is
throughout the world, are faced with an increased
for naught, that nothing I do matters. And yet I
frequency and severity of tropical storms due to the
press on because I believe our vision of a
sustainable future cannot be clouded by the fears of effects of global warming.
today.
In response to this moral and environmental crisis,
Around Halloween of 1997, my sophomore year in I have been advocating for strong and scientifically
sound emissions-reduction targets (350 parts per
high school in New York City, vast numbers of
young people, myself included, were forbidden to million atmospheric CO2 is deemed to be the
travel to school amid reports of repeated attacks on planet’s safe upper limit, compared with our
current level of 390 ppm, according to 350.org)
innocent train riders by rivaling members of the
and pushing the United States to take global
Crips and the Bloods, notoriously violent innerleadership in addressing the need for international
city gangs.
climate adaptation and resiliency-building for poor
Being restricted in this way forced me to reflect on and vulnerable communities.
how easy it is to give up in the face of fear. For
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I BELIEVE, cont'd
These tasks may sound daunting, but I refuse to let fear of failure blur this beautiful vision for our future: a
world that is simultaneously safe, responsible and just.
I encourage you to join with the innumerable others who also have decided to take the future into their
own hands. Tomorrow — Monday, Sept. 21 — is the first day of ClimateWeek NYC, a week of events
and meetings in New York for business leaders, government officials and concerned citizens from around
the world. There and elsewhere, millions of people will be coming together virtually by setting their alarm
clocks to go off at 12:18 p.m. (for two whole minutes; see http://tcktcktck.org) to highlight the date of
Dec. 18, the culmination of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Images from the worldwide actions will be presented during a gathering of political leaders, including
President Obama, at the U.N. building Tuesday.
Why not join in solidarity to this “global wake up call” from your front porch or during your lunch hour at
work? Consider even making your way out to a busy place — perhaps Burlington’s City Hall Park — to
participate in a spontaneous flash mob (when strangers spontaneously come together for a short
demonstration and then go about their day). Be sure to take a picture of yourself and others who are
joining you and upload it to http://tcktcktck.org/">TckTckTck’s Web site.
We need to wake ourselves and our legislators out of this climate-change snooze cycle.
I choose to take action, even in the face of uncertainty, because I believe inaction is in itself failure.
Creating a safe and sustainable future for this world starts with you, and it starts with me. I believe we can
change the world.
Nathaly Agosto Filion is a graduate student at UVM and serves as a community organizer with the
Vermont Oxfam Action Corps and volunteer with 350Dominicana. Contact her at
[email protected].
NEWS OF NOTE
Stephen Posner is beginning a new fellowship with the UVM Office of Sustainability working on a
campus-wide energy education program through the Accelerating Campus Climate Change Initiatives
project. This program is funded by a $38,000 grant from the Rocky Mountain Institute and aims to
develop tools and methods to inform institutional decision-making and individual behavior in support of
greenhouse gas reductions through a multi-faceted campus energy education project. The first step is
developing web-based displays of energy use and generation on campus, to demonstrate the relative
carbon reduction and cost avoidance potential of conservation behaviors, efficient technologies, and
renewable energy. As a graduate Fellow, Stephen Posner will work with the project team to define the
most cost-effective and culturally acceptable ways to reduce energy use in the research buildings, and to
test the effectiveness of an educational energy campaign in one or more buildings. On the UVM
campus, this project will facilitate energy competitions among buildings and other awareness-raising
activities to encourage conservation and energy efficiency. Good Luck Stephen!
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Svitek Family Scholarships—Letter of Appreciation
Dear Svitek Family,
I would like to express my deepest gratitude for the generosity and kindness you have shown me. It was this
kindness for someone you had never met that gave me the courage and means to spend my summer doing field
research.
I spent my summer as a field research technician working on a USDA funded project through the Rubenstein
School of Environment and Natural Resources at UVM. The project was focused on multifunctional land-use
in agricultural areas within the Lake Champlain watershed. This summer was the first stage of the project in
which data was collected on site-specific biodiversity and landowner opinions about land-use were gathered in
preparation for later stages of the project. I was a lucky member of a six person team of hardworking individuals and one superb supervisor by the name of Allan Strong. Waking up at 3:00am in sometimes rainy, often
humid weather was not always easy, particularly in the first week. Armed with a compass, a GPS unit, aerial
photos and a data sheet, I would hike out
into the unknown to predetermined coordinates. The points we hiked to were chosen
randomly, and were not always easy to
reach. But that was half the fun! Without
following easily navigated routes, I got to
experience some of the most beautiful places
I have ever seen in Vermont, places that I
would never have even known about and
perhaps even some that no one knew about.
Throughout the summer months I tested myself in dedication, stamina, patience, tenacity
and skill. With the birds and trees as my
guides, and the teamwork of an incredible
group of people striving for the same goals, I
became empowered and confident in my
abilities. I learned how to identify Vermont's
most common birds by sight and sound, how to navigate the back roads and backcountry of Vermont, how to
lead a team, how to be part of a team, how to learn from mistakes and how to have fun no matter what the
weather was, how much the mosquitoes bit or how hard the nettles stung. This was truly the most amazing
summer I've ever had, and I know now that I will be most happy in life if I can find a job doing conservation
work outside in nature.
Although the field season has ended in Vermont, I have found a place interning at the local lake science center
where I participate in animal care and am training to give presentations to the public about natural history. This
completely different second experience has made me realize that someday I would like to become an educator
in some way, working to increase the public's understanding about the natural world of which we are all a part.
I wouldn't have my current internship or have had my summer experience without your family's generosity and
encouragement.
Thank you sincerely for everything you have given me and for everything you have given so many others, you
are a truly wonderful family,
Eliese Dykstra
Another Svitek Family letter of appreciation
can be found on page 9!
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LANDS continued from p. 4
They have collaborated with the
professionals who do this work
every day. And they have the
satisfaction of making a difference.
And, as one intern stated “I'm sure
summer jobs exist that are more
relaxed, better paid, and require less
from participants. I bet none of them
are as rewarding and well-rounded
as this one.” Maybe you’ll find them
leading conservation service projects
in the future.
Check out the LANDS 2009 blog to
learn more about this summer’s
adventureshttp://lands2009.blogspot.com/.
LANDS interns training with Kathy Donna of Green Mountain
National Forest.
Congratulations to the following students
who made the Spring 2009 Dean’s List!
Autumn Amici
Mary Jane Anderson
Hillary Archer
Zachary Barker
Isabel Beavers
Sean Beckett
William Bennington
Jonathan Bergman
Ethan Bond-Watts
Ellen Bortner
Noelle Bramer
Stephanie Brontman
Olivia Bulger
Wendy Carbone
Anna Carragee
Aaron Caum
Mikael Cejtin
Brooke Churas
Megan Clark
Tyler Cohen
Stephanie DiBetitto
Sarah Donelson
Stephanie Drozd
Eliese Dykstra
Paul Eberts
Kaitlyn Farrar
Elisabeth Fenn
Kaitlin Francis
Lisa Fredette
Kaitlin Friedman
Sarah Giewont
Erik Gilbert
Rebekah Gordon
Nathaniel Gosselin
Katherine Graichen
Johannes Griesshammer
Michael Grubert
Sarah Gruver
Dana Gulley
Tyler Hall
Kelly Halloran
Eamon Harrity
Kathleen Hartin
Kelsey Head
Heidi Henrichs
Marian Herbick
Whitney Hill
Blake Hoberman
Matthew Holleb
Kathryn Holmberg
Jeremy Hulsey
Kristen Johnson
Katherine Kain
Molly Kaplan
Michael Lester
Elizabeth Lewis
Emily Licht
Daniel Lim
Dexter Locke
Kindle Loomis
Kaitlin Lucas
Danielle Lukens
Ian Lynch
Maggie MacKillop
Jessica MacQueen
Sean Mahoney
Jacqueline Maisonpierre
Heather McArthur
Catherine McGoldrick
Jordan Monahan
Madison Monty
Holly Mutascio
Michael Nathan
Melaina Pierce
Jason Plotkin
Duncan Pogue
Kaylee Pollander
Allison Prokop
Allison Rapp
Molly Reddington
Audrey Reid
Karissa Rocca
Kathryn Romelczyk
Allison Rooney
Mark Rosenberg
Elias Rosenblatt
Christian Ruf
Theresa Ruswick
Matthew Sarcione
Andrew Schlesinger
Elena Schneible
Samantha Seals
Lorelle Sherman
Naani Sheva
Lee Simard
Meredith Simard
Anna Speed
Anne Starke
Caitlan Stephens
Jacob Stocker
Kate Sudhoff
Cole Talbot
Cayla Tepper
Julia VanderWoude
Alena Warren
Jacob Weissman
Katharine White
Marshall Willis
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FOCUS ON UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP:
BY CASEY CULLEN, ENSC, ‘11
ogy, one day geology, etc.) I also got the
chance to design a conservation day for
this specific camp, the kids arrived and
made recycled bead bracelets (from strips
of old magazine paper), we did a trash
sort, and a hike to look at
I spent my summer at the
human impacts on the forest.
Trailside Nature and SciI also worked with 3rd and 4th
ence Center in Moutainside, New Jersey. It was
graders on hiking skills,
a paid program, and my
compass and map reading,
responsibilities included
leadership and trust activities
teaching a 3-hour enviin addition to the ‘Leave no
ronmentally themed
Trace’ guidelines. My final
camp each day, running
weeks, in a camp called
family programs, an
‘Backwoods Lore’, I taught
overnight campout, two
campers how to build surcampfires, and exhibit
vival shelters, we went on an
animal husbandry. I
edible hike, purified our own
really enjoyed my exwater, and learned how to
perience at Trailside, this
build fires. Every week there
was a return summer for
was an outside performer
me (having worked there
brought in to get whole famithe summer after my
lies to the center the usually
Casey holding a baby wallaby at the Trailside Nature and Scifirst year as well) and
did science ‘magic’ tricks,
ence Center, Mountainside, New Jersey.
loved the opportunity to
but one brought all kinds of
help kids find fun in learning about nature. I worked with animals he was rehabilitating- including a baby wallaby!
first graders on getting ‘Down and Dirty’ where each day Overall, my summer experience in environmental educaof the camp was dedicated to learning about a different
tion was a positive one and I got a lot of hands-on leader‘dirty’ job (one day was archaeology, one day paleontolship experience.
Svitek Family Scholarships—Letter of Appreciation
Dear Svitek Family,
Thank you so much for your support and financial assistance with my internship this summer! Your generosity helped
me preserve and protect one of our nation’s most beautiful natural resources while exploring the wilderness of Olympic National Park. Over the course of the summer, I volunteered over 500 hours with the Park Service. I spent up to
10 days at a time backpacking through the magnificent old growth forests and the stunning sub-alpine ridgelines of
Sol Duc Valley. As a backcountry ranger, I connected with visitors, hikers, and other volunteers from around the
world. I helped encourage leave-no-trace ethics and stressed the importance preserving and respecting the few truly
wild places we have left. I initiated a new food storage program in the backcountry, which will help minimize impacts
to the ecosystem while keeping visitors safe from wildlife. I also played a critical role in several search-and-rescue
operations to help injured hikers out of the remote backcountry.
Your generous gift allowed me to purchase the gear necessary to safely and efficiently work in one of the most rugged
and inaccessible reaches of wilderness: new leather hiking boots, a heavy-duty backpack, raingear, and other essential
equipment that kept me comfortable and prepared to carry out my position. Your gift also helped cover some of the
travel costs I incurred while driving to and from Washington State. Without your help, I would not have been able to
afford such a life-changing opportunity.
This summer truly got me excited for a career in the outdoors, striving to protect out vital natural resources while providing education and outreach to all who wish to explore the wilderness. I cannot thanks you enough for your generosity. If you have any other questions or would like more information, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely, Zachary N. Lance
HELP WANTED
The following is a sampling of positions listed at The Rubenstein School. Job postings are updated daily on the Job Board outside the Dean’s
office in the Aiken Center and weekly on the web at http://www.uvm.edu/envnr/?Page=employment/employmt.html. For further information contact: Marie Vea-Fagnant, Career Services Coordinator, 656-3003, email: [email protected]
INTERNSHIPS
Applicants for either internship should
The mission of the Lake Champlain Com- send a cover letter detailing their particular
mittee, a bi-state non-profit, membership- interest, background information, along
supported, environmental organization, is with a resume, writing sample(s), and the
to protect Lake Champlain’s environnames and phone numbers of three refermental integrity and recreational resources ences to Mike Winslow, Staff Scientist,
for this and future generations through
Lake Champlain Committee, 106 Main
science-based advocacy, education and
Street, Suite 200, Burlington, VT 05401collaborative action. Outstanding graduate 8434 or
and undergraduate students can assist in
[email protected]
pace-setting environmental protection projects by participating in LCC’s EnvironBACHELOR’S DEGREE REQUIRED
mental Service Corps, an internship program to encourage original policy and
The Northwest Regional Planning Comscientific research on Lake Champlain
mission has an exciting opportunity for an
individual with 3-5 years of experience in
issues.
local and regional planning and/or comThe Lake Champlain Committee currently munity development. The Planner will
has two internship opportunities. Success- help to build stronger communities in
Franklin and Grand Isle Counties by imful candidates should have a background
in natural resource management and excel- plementing projects and programs of
NRPC. This includes assisting with relent writing and research skills.
The UNIVERSITY of VERMONT
THE RUBENSTEIN SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT
AND NATURAL RESOURCES
George D. Aiken Center
81 Carrigan Drive
Burlington, VT 05405-0088
gional land use, natural resources, energy
and transportation planning, providing
grant writing and grant management support for communities and regional organizations, and managing local bike and pedestrian projects. The successful candidate
will have experience or training with regional/local planning, community development, and writing and managing state
and federal grants. Solid written and verbal communication skills and a degree in
planning or related field are required.
Starting salary high $30’s to low $40’s
dependant upon experience; excellent
benefit package. Send resume and three
references to Catherine Dimitruk, Executive Director, Northwest Regional Planning Commission, 155 Lake Street, St.
Albans, VT, 05478, or email to
[email protected]. Position open
until filled. EOE.