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Vol. XXX, No. 3, December, 2008, The University of Vermont, www.uvm.edu/envnr
GIS ANALYSIS TO AID IN NYC MILLION TREE CAMPAIGN
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 emScreencapture of the Southwest end of Central Park from Microsoft’s Virtual Earth
ployment opportunities.
Copies are available in the
his classmates created with a geographic
Aiken Center lobby and the NYC FORESTRY COURSE
Mail Room (328 Aiken)
information system (often called a GIS)
By Joshua Brown
outside of the Dean‘s office.
program on campus, while Watt and other
http://www.uvm.edu/envnr
Editor:
Amanda Garland, ‗09G
Aiken Center 210
[email protected]
ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:
VCC Update
GSAB News
Focus on Graduate
Research– Agata
Czerminska
Focus on Undergradute Internship–
Peter Stofhart
Sabbatical UpdatesSaleem Ali and Bill
Keeton
Help Wanted
and more...
An urban forest might sound as far
-fetched as a rural subway. But New York
City already has more than five million
trees, and these create a canopy that
shades 24% of the city according to a
2006 study by the US Forest Service and
UVM‘s Spatial Analysis Laboratory.
While not a moose-filled wilderness, New
York‘s urban forest exists now: cooling
city streets, soaking up rainfall and carbon, reducing pollution that triggers
asthma, and making twiggy homes for
New Yorkers‘ beloved birds.
Still more trees are needed. Which
is why a dozen UVM students at The
Rubenstein School of Environment and
Natural Resources are speaking by videoconference to Fiona Watt, New York
City‘s chief of forestry. Together, they‘re
looking for places to put a million new
trees.
Graduate student Dan Erickson
points to a digital map of Brooklyn he and
officials watch the presentation on computers in New York.
―It looks like some kind of fungus
is growing in those areas,‖ Erickson says,
pointing to several neighborhoods covered
with spots. Each spot of the ―fungus‖ is
actually a vacant lot, he explains. ―These
might be good places to plant trees,‖ he
says. Overlaying this data with other information, like asthma-related hospitalizations, he identifies a few areas in the borough as top priorities for new trees.
Erickson and his classmates,
mostly undergraduates, spent four days in
August 2008 tramping around the city,
studying its trees, meeting neighborhood
groups, and collecting data. It was the beginning of Natural Resources 378/285:
GIS Analysis of New York City’s Ecology.
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THE RUBENSTEIN SCHOOL IN ACTION
PUBLICATIONS
Fajardo, Natalie (ENSC ‗06), Natal and Breeding Dispersal in Bobolinks and Savannah Sparrows in an Agricultural Landscape.Volume 125, Issue 2 The Auk
Kielsel, Laura, Rich Enough to Offset; Do Voluntary
Carbon Markets Promote Luxury Emissions? Emagazine,
November/ December 2008 VolXIX no.6 http://
www.emagazine.com/view/?4423
McEvoy, T.J. 2008. What if My Cost Basis in Timber is
Zero? Farming -- The Journal of Northeastern Agriculture. Vol. 11, No. 5. May issue. pp 71 -73.
McEvoy, T.J. 2008. Tips on Buying Timber. Forest
Products Equipment Journal. Vol. 16. No. 9. pp 20 -26.
McEvoy, T.J. 2008. Nitrogen Applications. Tree Services. Vol. 4, No. 5 (May). pp 40-43
Watercolor by Claire Tebbs published in Activist Architecture:
The Philosophy and Practice of Community Design Center
White, D.D., Virden, R.J., Van Riper, C.J. (2008). Effect of place
identity, place dependence, and experience-use-history on perceptions of recreation impacts in a natural setting. Environmental Management, 42(4), 647-657
Wilkins, C.Diane Activist Architecture: The Philosophy and Practice of Community Design Center. Diane Gayer and Steve Libby's
work with the Town of Charlotte, a project of the Vermont Design Institute, is included in the upcoming publication.
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PRESENTATIONS
Alvez, Juan "12th International Congress on Environmental Law" : "Trends in the Implementation of Payments for
Environmental Services in the Americas", organized by the department of Sustainable Development of OAS. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
06/08
Alvez, Juan "Ecosystem Services, Food Crisis, and Future Trends".
closing "1st. Environmental Week" University of Sao Jose, Brazil
07/08
Alvez, Juan "Payments for Ecosystem Services: A review". Green
Mountain College, Poultney, VT. 11/08
Erickson, Christina "Peer to Peer Sustainability Outreach Programs from A-Z", at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Conference in Raleigh, NC (November 2008) and at the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium (NECSC) Conference at Princeton, NJ (October 2008)
MEDIA
Alvez, Juan TV Interview at the Legislative Assembly of Santa Catarina State in Brazil about the Concept and relevance of ecosystem services, market instruments and responsible consumption. 06/08
THE VERMONT CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE
UNVEILS E-NEWSLETTER
This occasional series is meant to inform about the
work of the VCC: ongoing initiatives, upcoming
events, and issues related to climate change
mitigation in Vermont.
Highlights of the first issue:
Background on the VGCCC
Vermont Climate Collaborative
Charter signed October 1
First meeting of Vermont Climate
Collaborative on Monday, December 8
For more information, or to join the mailing list,
visit http://www.uvm.edu/%7Evtcc/
or contact Jennifer Jenkins, Science Advisor,
Vermont Climate Collaborative at
[email protected]
Photo: (from left to right) Lee Gross, Amanda Garland, Nell Campbell,
Tatiana Abatemarco, Eric Garza. Not pictured, Carena Vanriper
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD
(GSAB) NEWS
Thanks to all who participated in the active conversation at our last coffee hour of the semester concerning
food policy.
In coordination with the Undergraduate Student Advisory Board, the GSAB will hold a fundraiser to support the Rubenstein School End of Year Celebration by
selling RSNR logoed hooded sweatshirts, pint
glasses, and canvas totes featuring the art of the winner of last month‘s design contest. Sale dates will be
posted throughout Aiken.
Keep an eye out for an end of semester graduate student happy hour notification email!
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FOCUS ON GRADUATE RESEARCH:
AGATA CZERMINSKA ESPA ‘09
Transformation of a Coal Economy in PostCommunist Poland: The impact of European
Climate Change Policies in Silesia
In the late 1980‘s and early 1990‘s, from
East Germany to Kazakhstan there were countless
reports of health threatening pollution in major
cities, forests dying from acid rain, rivers and
major bodies of water too polluted for industrial
and agricultural purposes, not to mention human
consumption, and soils so contaminated with
heavy metals to be unsafe for farming. Air
Photo:Agata breaking from her research to sample local cuisine
pollution in Poland was some of the worst in all
of Europe. In the Silesian region of southern
Poland, the air quality was so poor that the region received twenty percent less sunlight that the rest of the
country because the sun could not pierce through
the thick, poisonous smog. Silesia was the center of
heavy industry during communist years and is
home to Poland‘s most substantial coal deposit.
Poland to this day relies heavily on coal as a source
of energy. Hard coal accounts for as much as 92%
of Poland‘s electricity production. While the
world‘s top climate experts are cautioning that we
need to significantly reduce greenhouse gas
emissions to avoid major catastrophe, Poland relies
more on coal and has the least diversified energy
mix of any other European Union member state.
This strong reliance on coal makes carbon emission
reductions an issue of not only climate change but
also of entrenched livelihoods in Poland.
Photo: Coal leaving Bobrek-Centrum mine in Selesia
This past summer, graduate student Agata Czerminska conducted two months of intensive field
work in Silesia. Agata designed a survey in Polish
and administered it to over 300 individuals in two
coal-mining communities. The survey will be used
to evaluate how residents perceive coalmines and
mine closures in terms of their effects on the
economy and the environment as well as how
resident‘s perceive climate change and the
government‘s actions in mitigating this global
problem. Agata also conducted interviews with
members of the local government and with
Representatives from Polish environmental NGO‘s.
While the air in Silesia was laced with the acrid
smell of coal burning in people‘s homes, the research experience and the pierogi and kielbasa
were unforgettable.
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the deer and slashed its throat open
before completely taking it down and
dragging it into the bushes. We all
stood there shocked for about a minute
before we decided that it would be a good idea to get out
of the area for a while. The wildlife in the park was simply amazing. I encountered another mountain lion a
week later, but it more or less just left us alone; I also
saw several black bears and a few cubs; white-tailed
and mule deer that would walk right up to us, completely unafraid; numerous bird species; and pig-like
FOCUS ON UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP
PETER STOFHART, FOR ‘10
Summer internship: Big Bend National Park
The route my summer was going to take
changed dramatically with a call from my employer
from the previous summer. My boss, a post-graduate
student and research affiliate with Yale University had
called me up in March asking if I was interested in doing fire-effects research on ecosystems in the Chisos
Mountains, located in Big Bend National Park, Texas. I
was thrilled at this proposition and said yes immediately. A chance to spend a summer in a new place doing
research and having an adventurous time was too much
to say ―no‖ to.
Fast-forward to July of this past summer, and I
found myself packing for Texas. My summer had already been exciting after spending most of June taking
the field ornithology course and field methods course at
UVM. I was now ready for this next adventure, which
would open my eyes to an entirely new part of the country for me. After getting off the plane and meeting with
my boss and her family at the airport, we travelled
straight from El Paso to Big Bend. I knew it was an entirely new world when, instead of seeing green everywhere like in the Northeast, the landscape was brown
sand with occasional cactus and other desert species.
The 6 hour car ride was a real eye-opener for me as I
travelled across the state going 80 miles per hour (yes
that is the speed limit).
The first few days were spent doing paperwork
and doing some sightseeing of the park. I saw several of
the main tourist features including some of the mountain
ranges, and the Rio Grande, although it was disappointingly narrow and shallow. Eventually, we finally got to
start collecting data for the research project. The project
was to occur in 3 phases: the lower, middle, and upper
elevations of Chisos Mountains. This was because in the
desert, vegetation and plant
diversity generally increase
with elevation change. The
first of the elevations we did
were the lower elevation
sites, and were generally right
off the road at the base of the
mountains.
At the first site we
set up, as my boss was showing us how to set up the sites
and take various measurements, we heard a rustling in
the bushes about 20 feet away
and suddenly, a deer jumped out followed by a mountain
lion a split second later. The mountain lion jumped on
creatures called javolinas that came to my cabin every
night.
After my boss had showed me and my other
coworker, Darren, who was a local from the area, how
to set up the plots, take inventory of the different woody
species including the many types of scrub oak, cacti,
agave plants, and pinyon pines in the mountains, she had
to head back up to Connecticut to do some work for
Yale. I ended up staying in the old ranch house called Kbar all by myself with Darren commuting via motorcycle every day. Although we tolerated each other, we did
not particularly like each other or each other‘s methods
of collecting data (I liked to be precise while Darren
estimated everything). The next few weeks were fairly
trying. I was coping with cabin fever being all alone in
an isolated cabin in the desert with only Darren to talk to
during the day.
Things got better once we got into the higher
elevations and had to backpack and camp for 2 weeks
straight. The only problem was that I over packed for
food/supplies and my bag was
well over 100 lbs. However, the
13 hour days prevented me
from dwelling on the isolation
because I was way too tired
from hiking over 10 miles daily
on top of collecting data for 2
weeks straight.
Eventually, we completed setting up all the sites
and collecting all the data and I
was able to go back home in
August, where I spent a week
doing nothing but watching TV,
relaxing, and entering data collected onto my computer.
It was a great adventure that tested me physically and
mentally and I am glad that I got to experience this summer in wild, sometimes unforgivable desert mountains
of Big Bend National Park.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF
OHSA 40HR HAZWOPER
By: Joshua R. Stewart, ‗08
I approached a principle
of the engineering firm, Nobis
Engineering during the summer of my freshman year.
I asked him about the opportunity to participate in an
internship in the future. He responded by telling me
that I would be welcomed to apply, but I should really
think about getting an Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) 40hr training certificate. I
would need this to go out in the field and without it I
would be riding a desk doing paperwork. I had heard
that the university offered an OSHA 40hr class. It took
a while to track that class down. It was not labeled as
an OSHA class. You can find it listed in the geology
department as a special topics class on HAZMAT. I
signed up for the class and can‘t say enough good
things about it. The professors know what they are
talking about. I looked forward to the class each week,
and I learned a lot of interesting and important things.
Did I mention it meets only once a week? This class
covered many topics ranging from rules, regulation
and history to dressing up in a full HAZMAT suit with
an SCBA.
You may be wondering why I feel that this
class could be one of the most important one you take
while attending the university? First off, this class
with the resulting OSHA certificate pretty much by its
self got me my internship this summer with Nobis.
During the internship I was able to learn many things
about how the world works outside of school and what
one of many career options looks like. I went out to
many job sites and learned about well drilling, pump
and treatment systems, wetlands, storm water controls,
and how to write reports. I may also have a job with
this firm when I graduate. If I don‘t end up working
for Nobis then because of this class the chances of
working for any other firm or company that requires
an OSHA certification have gone way up. Why? Simple: money and time. Because I already have the
OSHA training, that is time and money that a company will not have to invest in me. This training is
great to put on your resume because it really stands
out. It is also a great idea to take this class it because
you won‘t pay extra, you will have fun and you are
getting credit for it. It just may give you a leg up on
everybody else out there looking for a job when you
graduate.
The new non-profit car sharing organization CarShare Vermont will be launching in Burlington on December 8th, 2008. Of the fleet of
eight cars, one, a Subaru Empreza wagon, will be
located on UVM's campus. CarShare Vermont's
mission is to provide an affordable, convenient,
and reliable alternative to private car ownership
that enhances the environmental, economic, and
social wellbeing of our region and planet. Members have access to the network of cars parked
around Burlington whenever, and for how ever
long they would like. To learn more about this
organization, visit www.carsharevt.org, or visit
the downtown office 131 St. Paul Street, next
door to Silver Maple.
UVM Granted EDC Status
Lead by RSENR, UVM was recently granted the status as an
ESRI Development Center
(EDC). ESRI (Environmental Systems Research
Institute) designs and develops the geographic
information systems (GIS) software used at
UVM for research and teaching. Being designated an EDC gives students improved access to
GIS software, free professional development
training for faculty and staff, and an annual student award.
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GREEN FLASH
Brought to you by the Greening of Aiken, GREEN FLASH makes suggestions for ways to green up your
life. Share your knowledge with us! Email [email protected] with a greening suggestion.
Just a friendly reminder that under the Global Climate Change Initiative,
faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to log their flight travel through
the Rubenstein Carbon Offset Fund. For more information, log on to:
https://www.uvm.edu/%7Econserve/carbon/about.htm
Mock Town Meeting to Discuss Environmental Justice Implications
of Alternative Energy
On Tuesday, November 11th, undergraduate students enrolled in NR 6 participated in a Mock Town
Hall Meeting evaluating energy alternatives for the city of Rutland. The Town Hall, a variation on the
weekly NR 6 lectures taught by invited guests, was led by graduate students enrolled in NR 306, and
presented the audience of mock townspeople with three choices: citizens could choose to continue
purchasing energy on the open market, or to develop technologies for either harvesting energy from
wind or biomass. There were no monetary costs trade offs presented between the options. Audience
members were asked to vote for the alternative which best met environmental justice criteria of maximizing both human and natural capital while also providing procedural and distributive justice.
Graduate students represented citizen experts, presenting the three alternatives and fielding anonymous questions from the audience. The townspeople voted overwhelmingly for development of wind
energy.
Photo: Graduate students as citizen task force fielding questions from undergrads and the general
public acting as town members.
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Led by three scientists who have been working with officials in New York for several
years—Austin Troy and Jarlath O‘NeilDunne from UVM and Morgan Grove from
the Forest Service—the students saw New
York‘s realities: burgeoning population,
disappearing open space, increasing summer
heat brought by climate change, and the
city‘s current tree stock enduring life in a
concrete jungle.
In 2007, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an ambitious goal using analysis
from the UVM and Forest Service team:
plant a million trees in the next decade.
More than 125,000 trees
have been planted since the
MillionTreesNYC campaign began.
Photo by Austin Troy
But there‘s a problem: all the $400-million Bloomberg allocated to the Parks Department is for trees—
and none for planning where to plant them. How to add another 875,000 trees by 2017—on what land, in
what neighborhoods, with which stewards, at what cost—remains an open question.
As the students‘ slides roll by, the answers seem closer. The city has extensive data on land use, existing
trees, pollution, parks, pavement, stewardship groups and the like but not the resources to fully explore
it. UVM has the technical expertise—and student labor—to analyze this information, searching for a
balance of suitable planting locations with neighborhoods in need.
―We don‘t want a million dead
trees,‖ says Dexter Locke ‘09,
whose group assessed Manhattan
and developed a planting prioritization based on reducing urban
―heat islands‖ and improving air
quality. ―This is real service on a
real problem,‖ he says.
―It‘s amazing to see so many projects with our data,‖ Fiona Watt
says via speakphone, as the students complete their video presentation. ―We‘d have to commit our
GIS person to a year‘s worth of
work to come up with what your
class did in a few weeks.‖
Photo by Austin Troy: Fiona Watt, chief of Forestry and Horticulture
starts out an afternoon of presentations at Central Park's Dana Center
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SABBATICAL UPDATE
DR. SALEEM H. ALI
Associate Professor, Saleem H. Ali has
been writing a book as part of his
sabbatical titled "The Treasure Impulse:
Minerals, the Environment and Human
Development." He is relieved to report
that the manuscript is now complete and
under production (expected to be released
by Yale University Press in October,
2009). Apart from book-writing, Saleem
also submitted a proposal to the National
Science Foundation (as PI) this October
titled ―Ecological security: understanding
the linkage between conservation
psychology and diplomacy in resolving
Photo: Saleem Ali outside of an Amethyst mine in Brazil
border conflicts‖ under NSF's new Minerva
Initiative (a partnership with the Department
of Defense). Travels so far have included two trips to Brazil for fieldwork on amethyst mining activities
and a presentation at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain. For the second half of his
sabbatical, Saleem will be in South Asia and the Middle East with his family. His wife Maria and
kids Shahmir and Shahroze are looking forward to enjoying a warmer winter than usual! Saleem was
recently awarded the inaugural fellowship by the Brookings Institution's new research center in Doha,
Qatar where he will be spending 3 months in the
spring semester working on a policy paper on
environmental planning for oil and gas pipelines
and prospects for international cooperation in South
Asia, with a focus on Pakistan, Iran and India.
Photos: Brazilian Amethysts
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SABBATICAL UPDATE
DR. BILL KEETON
Associate Professor Bill Keeton recently returned from six weeks in Ukraine, where he
worked at the Ukrainian National Forestry University (UNFU) as part of his sabbatical. Funding for the trip was provided by the U.S. Fulbright Program, which awarded Dr. Keeton a
Fulbright Specialist Scholarship this fall. Dr.
Keeton's trip began with a one week research
expedition into the Carpathian Mountains, accompanied by graduate student Jared Nunery,
Fulbright Scholar Sarah Crow, consulting forester Yurij Bihun, and a team of Ukrainian forest rangers. The team traveled to remote montane research sites in an old Soviet troop
carrier followed by off trail hiking to altitude.
Photo: UVM research team on the summit of the Gorgany
The purpose was to sample previously unmeasured old- Range (or high peaks) of the Carpathian Mountains in
growth Norway spruce-European silver fir forests. The western Ukraine. Back: Associate Professor Bill Keeton.
resulting biomass and carbon data are fed into the
Front row (left to right): Sarah Crow, Yurij Bihun, and
global meta-analysis of temperate old-growth forests,
Jared Nunery
which Dr. Keeton is leading this year as the focus of his
sabbatical. At UNFU, which is located in the historic city of L'viv, Dr. Keeton presented seminars on climate
change, carbon markets, and forest carbon management. In collaboration with his co-editor, UNFU professor
Ihor Soloviy, Bill also worked on a book resulting from
the UVM atelier on ecological economics and sustainable forestry, held in Ukraine last Fall (2007). Professor
Keeton returned home by way of Kiev, where he attended a Fulbright conference; Vienna, where he
worked with the Danube-Carpathian Programme of the
World Wide Fund for Nature; and Berlin, where he
gave an invited seminar on the global meta-analysis to
the geography department at Humdoldt University.
Photo (above): Bill Keeton’s field crew in an oldgrowth silver fir (Abies alba) forest in the Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine.
Photo (right): Ukrainian rangers and scientists prepare with Dr. Keeton (extreme right) and Yurij Bihun
(middle) to sample biomass in a Carpathian oldgrowth forest.
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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
Invasive Plant Control Travel Team
Intern, Eastern US
Org:Invasive Plant Control, Inc.
Description: Applicant will have the
opportunity to work in various natural
areas throughout the eastern United
States. Projects range from Shenandoah
National Park, across the Blue Ridge
Mountains, to the Piedmont of Virginia,
and south to the Virgin Islands. Invasive
Plant Control, Inc. will provide you with
the opportunity to conduct intensive habitat restoration of many different native
plant communities with the main emphasis in invasive plant management
To Apply: Call 615-969-1309 or send
cover letter and resume to: [email protected]
Montana Conservation Corp Member
Org: Montana Conservation Corp
Description: As a corpsmember, you will
serve with a small crew to get things
done that benefit Montana and neighboring communities. You‘ll gain job skills
and work habits that will help you find
and keep a good job. If you‘re prepared
to invest yourself in a physically and personally demanding experience, then
MCC will place in your hands tools to
help you make a difference in your world
— and in your life.
To Apply: http://www.mtcorps.org/positi
ons/viewPositions.aspx?id=13
BACHELOR’S DEGREE REQUIRED
Outreach Coordinator Extraordinaire
Org: CarShare Vermont
Description: Working closely with CarShare Vermont ‘s Executive Director,
Board of Directors, and volunteers, the
Outreach Coordinator will help shape the
future of our new organization and the
community we serve. This is a temporary, 24-hours per week position to start
with the possibility of becoming a permanent full-time position for the right candidate.
To Apply: Please email a resume and
cover letter to Annie Bourdon at an-
nie@carsharevt. org with ―Outreach Coordinator‖ in the subject line, or mail to
CarShare Vermont‘s office at 131 St.
Paul St., Burlington, VT 05401. Some
applicants may be invited to participate in
an interview, at which time they will be
asked to submit additional application
materials, such as references and a writing sample. This position will remain
open until filled.
Nursery Manager
Org:The Intervale Center is a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization whose mission is
to develop farm- and land-based enterprises that generate economic and
social opportunity while protecting natural resources. The Intervale Center
seeks to nurture and sustain farms, land,
and people. We manage 350 acres of
farmland, nursery, compost production,
trails, and wildlife corridors along
the Winooski River in Burlington, Vermont. And we share what we learn and
do with others across our state and
around the country
Description:The Nursery Manager will
grow trees and shrubs for conservation
and riparian restoration projects in
Vermont. The Nursery Manager will be
directly responsible for all plant
propagation activities beginning with
seed collecting through the harvest
with the assistance of a large pool of
regular and drop-in volunteers, work
study students and interns, and a full-time
seasonal field technician.
Position will start January 5, 2009 and
will be renewed on an annual basis.
The Nursery Manager will also be responsible for reviewing performance of
work study students, interns, and field
technician in cooperation with the
Director.
To Apply:Send a resume, cover letter
and three professional references to
[email protected] by December 12,
2008
Description: The Associate will be part
of the AEG team working under the supervision of the AEG Sector Manager.
This position is full-time, based in ARD's
home office in Burlington, Vermont and
requires residency in Vermont. This is a
technical staff position and an ideal opportunity for a self-motivated individual
with an agricultural science/production
background interested in developing and
pursuing a career in international consulting and business development.
To Apply: http://www.ecojobs.com/
jobs_details.php?sec=4EW&AID=21585
PHD REQUIRED
Assistant Professor of Environmental
Management and Policy
Org:Southern NH University
Description:The Department of Environment, Politics, and Society in the School
of Liberal Arts invites applications for a
full-time position at the rank of Assistant
Professor of Environmental Management
and Policy. The ideal candidate will have
an interdisciplinary environmental background with strong natural and social
science components. A commitment to
teaching is essential. The position is part
of an exciting new program that emphasizes the environment, ethics, and public
policy. The successful candidate will
teach introductory-level courses in the
natural or social sciences as part of the
undergraduate general education program, and interdisciplinary undergraduate
courses related to environmental management and policy. The teaching load is 7
courses per year, with an average of 3
preps per semester. The doctoral degree
in a relevant discipline or interdisciplinary field is required prior to appointment.
To Apply: Applicants should include a
cover letter, curriculum vitae, evidence of
teaching excellence, transcripts, and four
references (names, addresses, and e-mail
contact). Review will begin immediately
MASTER’S DEGREE REQUIRED
and continue until the position is filled.
Agriculture Production and Agronomy Please submit applications online to
Specialist
[email protected] . EOE/AA
Org: ARD, Inc. Burlington, VT.
Happy Holidays to all at
The Rubenstein School.
May your winter break be
restful and full of good
cheer!
Burlington
Winter Farmer’s Market
Saturday December 20th
10am-2pm
Memorial Auditorium
corner of Main Street and
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