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ENVNR News
Vol. XXV, No. 3, December 2003
Newsletter of The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, The University of Vermont, www.uvm.edu/envnr
Board of Trustees Approves Name
Change
On November 13 , the University of Vermont Board of Trustees
approved the renaming of the School
of Natural Resources to The Rubenstein School of Environment and
Natural Resources. The name change
comes following a $15 million gift to
the University from Steve and Beverly Rubenstein. Resulting from the
name change are changes to the web
addresses as well as the newsletter!
Proposal For A New Course in ENVNR: The Greening of Aiken (Spring 2004)
By Mark Keffer
ENVNR 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 ENVNR Student
Resource Area (336 Aiken)
in the Dean’s office.
http://www.uvm.edu/envnr
Editor:
Sara Lovitz, NRP ‘05G
218 Aiken Center
[email protected]
ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:
- ENVNR in Action
- Proposed Spring
Course
- Ecosystem Management
- Graduate Research
- Summer Internship
- Green Flash
- and more
Would you like to see a “greener”
Aiken? Would you like incorporate fountains, windmills, reused materials, and
maybe biodiesel into our favorite building?
Would you like to see the Aiken building
become the poster child of campus ecological retrofitting? Maybe we could even figure out a way to keep it from being so
“warm” in the summer. Interested? Please
read on to find out more about a new
course proposal for Spring 2004. (but
please note: it is just a proposal at the moment!)
Over the last year or so, there has
been considerable work done by the Aiken
Greening Committee to investigate ways to
make Aiken a more environmentally sustainable building. The new course proposes to build on this work in a way that
will not only help students get a better understanding of greening issues, but also
help to facilitate the process of changing
the Aiken building.
The main questions to be addressed with this course are: how can we
efficiently renovate Aiken to include more
space, use energy better, and act as a teaching tool for future students? How can we
capitalize on local and related expertise,
when everyone’s time is so limited?
UVM wants to be a green university, and
ENVNR is well positioned to provide leadership in that direction. Part of that leadership has been in ENVNR’s partnerships
with outside groups and experts. This net-
working increases our ability to move forward to new solutions for complex problems.
However, moving that network
into the classroom is not so easy. Often the
experts we need are employed elsewhere
and do not have the time to devote to a full
course. However, limiting them to a single-appearance guest lecture does not take
full advantage of their skills. Also, it does
not allow students enough contact time to
fully develop their thinking. The course
will run somewhat differently from other
courses in three main ways:
First, a large part of the teaching
will be done by students, to each other.
Although they will still have guidance from
the tutors and facilitators, each student will
be responsible for preparing and teaching
material to his or her classmates, in small
groups
on an
ongoing
basis.
Second,
the
course is
problembased
learning
-- which
means that there is no “set” curriculum.
We will learn what we need to learn in
(proposal continued on page 4)
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ENVNR in Action
PUBLICATIONS
Ali, Saleem H. “Environmental Planning and Cooperative Behavior: Catalyzing Sustainable Consensus.” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol 23, No. 2, December, 2003.
Cornell University recently published an educational package for local governments interested in protecting water resources in their communities. Extension Associate Professor, Jurij Homziak contributed
chapters on coastal water quality and on voluntary Best Management Practices for marinas. The package, Locally-led Education and Action for Protecting the Environment (LEAPE), introduces basic concepts behind storm water management, non-point source pollution control and water quality protection.
Participating municipalities identify local NPS issues themselves and LEAPE leads then through actions
they can take to protect water resources. The training uses resource information technologies, including
resource inventory, remote sensing, and geographic information systems, built around a profile of the
community based on existing publicly available data. Additional information is available from LEAPE
Program Office, 307A Rice Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 14853-5601.
PRESENTATIONS
Associate Professor Clare Ginger presented a paper entitled “Watershed Planning in Vermont: Dynamics of Community, Place, and Power” at the 25th Annual Research Conference of the Association for
Public Policy Analysis and Management, held November 6-8 in Washington, DC. Heather Hibbard
Furman, a 2002 M.S. graduate in Natural Resource Planning, was co-author on the paper.
MEDIA
Channel 5 News (WPTV) aired a segment of "Champlain 2000" on Monday, November 24, which covers research on the impacts of zebra mussel colonization of soft sediments in Lake Champlain, recently
completed by formal postdoctoral associate Mark Beekey, Associate Professor Ellen Marsden, and Declan McCabe
(of Saint Michael's College) at the Rubenstein Laboratory.
Assistant Professor Saleem Ali was featured in UVM’s The View, in an article entitled, “Conquering Conflict,” that
can be found online at: http://www.uvm.edu/theview/article.php?id=1009.
Professor Breck Bowden was recently featured in UVM’s The View, in an article entitled, “Gathering Storm.” You can
find the full story online at: http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/theview/.
GRANTS
Extension Associate Professor Jurij Homziak of Lake Champlain Sea Grant, is a partner in a new three-year tri state
water quality improvement grant with Cooperative Extension in Maine and New Hampshire. USDA CSREES recently awarded a $296,168 grant to support the Northern New England Lake Education and Action Project (LEAP) for
2003-2006. Vacation home growth and development in Northern New England’s seasonal lakeshore communities
pose an increasing to water quality. This activity will develop new educational materials for coastal land owners,
introduce low impact lawn care practices and buffers for municipal officials and property owners, involve youth volunteers to assist lakeshore associations in identifying and correcting sources of domestic pollution, and organizing and
training a cadre of Lake Stewards, to provide on-going domestic pollution prevention education and water quality
monitoring to their communities.
ENVNR grad student Emilian Geczi received summer support in 2003 from Lake Champlain Sea Grant. Emilian
completed a mail survey of residences of Englesby Brook in Burlington to help identify domestic practices that may
contribute to non-point source pollution to storm water entering the brook. The survey results will help target public
awareness and education activities that are part of a city-led multi-year effort to restore the ecological functions of
Englesby Brook. Emilian received assistance from recent ENVNR master’s graduate Melissa Levy. Melissa, with
LCSG summer support, conducted a similar domestic NPS survey of coastal camp communities in Mallets Bay.
OTHER NEWS
Associate Professor Jon Erickson and Josh Farley (of CDAE) helped to run a workshop on "Economic Instruments in
Environmental Management" hosted by the United Nations Development Program and Ministry of Public Utilities and
the Environment in Trinidad, Oct. 23, 2003.
ENVNR News
Ecosystem Management in Two Balkan Lakes
Associate Professor Mary Watzin just returned
from a trip to Macedonia, Albania, and Montenegro,
where she is working with colleagues to investigate and
develop ecosystem management plans for two large
transboundary lakes. Lake Ohrid, shared by Macedonia
and Albania, is an ancient lake with 70% endemic species. With funding from GEF (Global Environment Facility) through the World Bank, Mary has been collaborating with scientists in both countries on studies of the
lake’s water quality and biodiversity. She and her colleagues recently completed a “State of the Environment”
report that was honored with the Ibaraki-Kasumigaura
Prize. This prize is given by the Japanese to support
significant scientific achievements in transitioning and
developing countries. A draft management plan for the
lake was recently completed and served to focus on Donor’s Conference convened by the Swiss Government on
November 2 and 3.
Albania also shares a transboundary lake, Shkoder Lake, with Montenegro. The two countries recently
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received a new GEF
grant through the
World Bank to develop
an ecosystem management plan for that lake
as well. Mary will be
helping with the initial
“Transboundary Diagnostic Analyses” that
will set the stage for
the development of the
ecosystem management plan. In its new
wetlands around Lake Shkoder are home to the
constitution, Montenegro The
largest number of wintering waterbirds in the Eurodeclared itself an
pean flyway.
“Environmental State”
and committed itself to ecologically and socially sustainable development. Quite a bold statement and one that
sets a unique context for the upcoming work.
GREEN FLASH:
Brought to you by The Rubenstein School’s Greening Initiative
You’ve just gotten out of your 6-9 pm lecture and are heading down a dark campus hallway. Suddenly you hear a buzzing sound from the darkness and lights turn on to reveal the familiar CocaCola™ trademark. How did the vending machine know you were thirsty? Well, maybe it didn’t
exactly know you were thirsty – but it did sense your presence and turn on by itself. It’s all part of
the VendingMiser™ program instituted by UVM’s Physical Plant.
Last year all 80 vending machines on campus were running 24 hours a day – 7 days a week. Front
lights and chillers were operating all night long, every weekend, and each UVM holiday. Rich Wolbach, UVM’s Energy Management Engineer, noticed this wasteful practice and took action. "We
quickly realized that UVM could save a lot of money and minimize environmental harm by using the vending miser
product," said Wolbach. "Machines sit idle late at night and on the weekends. There is no need to have compressors
and front lights running non-stop at these times."
The VendingMiser™ product, a trademark of Bayview Technology, Inc., couples an on/off switch with a motion
sensor. The machine turns on when the motion detector senses movement within 25-30 feet and shuts down when
the area has been vacant for 15 minutes. While shut down, the VendingMiser™ monitors room temperature and
automatically turns on chillers every one to three hours to maintain cold soda temperatures.
Prior to the installation of VendingMisers™, UVM’s vending machines consumed nearly 300,000 kWh annually. The use of VendingMisers™ should reduce this figure to around 160,000 kWh per year. Most importantly, this new technology will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2200 pounds annually per VendingMiser™ installed – multiplied by the 80 vending machines on campus – that amounts to a reduction of
176,000 pounds of CO2 each year. To put this figure into perspective, each year UVM will save as much CO2
as if we took one car off the road for 31 years or 110 cars off the road for 3.5 months.
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order to solve the problem. Third, the course intends to
be able to make serious suggestions on the future of the
Aiken building. The course may also involve some
intensive (day-long?) design workshops in order to work
through the ideas that come up.
The course will be divided into four main segments, with two themes that run through all the segments. The four segments are:
Biomass, Methane, and Renewable Energy
What is the potential of biomass, methane, and
biodiesel for powering the Aiken building?
considerations when deciding if a green roof is a feasible option? What other aspects of architectural knowledge and planning are important to inform the greening
process? Should we incorporate a green roof?
The two themes running through the other segments are:
Organizational Structure and Educational Dimensions
Usage of water, materials, and energy typify the many
processes that occur behind the scenes in a building.
These processes occur around us every day and yet are
mostly invisible. We already spend a lot of time in
buildings, and it therefore makes sense to use buildings
as reminders of the processes that go into our built environment.
Materials, HVAC, Construction, Logistics
What is the potential of recycled materials to improve
the value of the Aiken building? What aspects of project management do we need to think about to make this Financial, Economic, and Marketing Considerations
project not only successful in the immediate sphere, but Reasonable first questions about any greening process
also as a model for other campuses across the country? include, "How much will it cost, how much will it save,
and where will the money come from?"
But, costs are influenced by perceptions of value, and
Water, Wastewater, Stormwater
Like most buildings, Aiken takes in fresh water and puts values may change as new information becomes availout wastewater. It also creates impervious surface that
able. What are the parts of conventional thinking that
contributes to stormwater runoff. What do we need to
can be reworked to facilitate green building and green
know about water management and related policy, in
retrofitting?
order to be not only environmentally responsible, but
Would you be interested in taking such a
also exemplary for other buildings and institutions?
course? Again, it is still just a proposal, but if you think
Should we consider precipitation collection, composting you or someone you know would want to take it, please
toilets, greywater remediation, and/or an EcoMachine in drop me a line ASAP by email (Mark Keffer, jkefthe lobby?
[email protected]) so that I can get a sense of the interest
out there. It is imperative that we have sufficient support to drive this course.
Green Architecture
What are the important architectural and engineering
Professor Bob Manning Wins Intramural Tennis Tournament
Bob Manning carried on ENVNR's athletic prowess by winning the
UVM intramural tennis tournament. The tournament was open to all
faculty, staff and students. Bob reports that he's glad all those noontime
practice session paid off!
New Additions to the ENVNR Family!
Bill Keeton and Karen Tyler – a daughter Julia
Ernie Buford and Cath Burns – a son Seamus
Maria and Keith Erb – a son Zachary
Jennifer Jenkins and Morgan Grove – a daughter Caroline
ENVNR News
Focus on Graduate Research:
Carl Cappelletti
As a first year graduate student at The University of Vermont, I had a unique opportunity to begin my research the summer before I started classes.
Toolik Lake, Alaska is the location of a Long-Term
Ecological Research site (http://www.uaf.edu/toolik &
http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/ARC/). Dr. William ‘Breck’
Bowden and I were part of an interdisciplinary team of
researchers focused on stream ecological processes.
Our contributions to the team were whole-stream metabolism experiments. We
measured the amount of
primary production and
respiration in a particular
stream reach, which is a
specified section of the
stream. From this we can
determine if the stream
ecosystem is dominated by
primary production or respiration.
Why would we want to know this? While the
absolute magnitude of global warming in the Arctic
region is the subject of some debate, the fact that
warming will be exceptional in the Arctic region is
not. This project should provide valuable baseline
data for comparison in the future and provide insight
into the ways in which biogeochemical cycling in Arctic streams might change in an altered environment.
Furthermore, two of the artic rivers that we are studying have been subjected to low-level phosphorous fertilization. This fertilization has significantly increased
the primary production and respiration.
Why are we adding nutrients to the streams?
There are no civilizations near Toolik Lake. The artic
streams we are studying are relatively pristine with
very low background nutrient concentrations. The
streams are clean enough to drink out of! The streams
in most other regions of the world have been subjected
to much more pollution. Therefore, it would be interesting to study the affects of adding nutrients to a pristine ecosystem. We can compare the arctic stream
reaches that have no nutrient added to the arctic stream
reaches that have nutrient added. We can also analyze
the effects of nutrient addition to pristine arctic
streams and compare them with the history of heavily
polluted streams around the world. Finally, we can
stop the nutrient addition and test for ecosystem recovery.
Additionally, I am interested in ecological
stoichiometry. Ecological stoichiometry is the balance
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of multiple chemical substances in ecological interactions and processes, and the study of this balance. Ecological stoichiometry focuses on C:N:P ratios because
their cycling is strongly regulated by biological processes. Ecological stoichiometry has been studied relatively extensively in lakes, oceans, and terrestrial ecosystems. However, studies of ecological stoichiometry
in streams are not well-documented. I would like to
compare the ecological stoichiometry of the fertilized
and unfertilized stream reaches of these artic streams.
I am also working to model whole-stream
metabolism and ecological stoichiometry with Stella
Software. Stella is a general software tool that has
been used in ecology, economics, business, and other
disciplines, and can be useful to determine whether the
understanding of the ecosystem is complete and accurate. By inserting parameters that I have measured, I
will be able to compare the modeled data to the experimental data. Any major discrepancies would mean that
something else is going on in the ecosystem and needs
to be accounted for.
While in Alaska, I also
found some time to enjoy myself.
My favorite recreational activity at
Toolik Lake was the sauna, which
is adjacent to the lake. We would
jump in the lake to cool off and run
back into the sauna to warm up. It
snowed on the 4th of July, so it can
get cold in the summer. The warmest temperature during my tenure
Pipeline at Kupuruk
was about 75oF. One of the primary reasons for such dramatic temperature fluctuations is the permafrost. A foot below ground the soil is
permanently frozen, so it is like living on an ice cube
where the only warmth comes from the sun. If the sun
becomes shaded by clouds the temperatures can easily
drop 10-20oF in an hour.
An exciting event over the summer was the
encounter I had with a grey wolf. I was walking on the
tundra alone when I spotted movement about 100 feet
away. I was startled to see that it was a wolf. I quickly
looked around for other wolves, because a pack of
wolves can be dangerous. Luckily, he was alone. I was
surprised how small he was; he appeared to weigh
only about fifty pounds. As I examined his white and
grey coat of fur, the wolf stared back at me for a few
seconds; then we left in different directions. Overall,
the experience at Toolik Lake was a good one and I
look forward to continuing my research efforts over
the next couple of years.
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Focus on Internships:
David Karl, Natural Resources, sophomore
This past summer I spent three months living
and working Jamaica as an intern with a contractor for
the United States Agency for International Development. Colleen Shanahan, a grad student in CDAE, and I
were the first longer-term and youngest “consultants”
they had ever brought down to help small businesses.
While Colleen and I had different assignments, we were
together for about two weeks over the course of the
summer. Our first week consisted of a few meetings as
well as a half-day “orientation” with a Peace Corps volunteer, and our last weeks consisted of writing some
reports, holding a workshop, and quite a bit of traveling.
My first assignment was in the parish (county)
of St. Thomas, located in the southeast corner of the
country. Unemployment and resulting poverty have
been replacing the industries that once occupied the parish. I quickly became accustomed to “Jamaican Time”
while on this assignment. The first day I was to be
picked up and brought to my site, my ride was over
seven hours late to get me. I soon became skeptical as
my boss was routinely three or more hours late. As soon
as I knew my way around, I would walk down to the
main road and hop in the back of a packed to the limit
with Jamaicans “route taxi” that would take me on the
fifteen minute ride to work for a little over 40 cents. My
days varied from the information technology work I had
been brought down to do in the factory, located on the picturesque Caribbean coast, to walking around the
farm at the foothills of the breathtaking Blue Mountains making recommendations on the farm/orchard.
The factory canned ackees, the national fruit of Jamaica, to be exported and sold primarily to Jamaicans living abroad desiring a taste of home.
My second assignment was right outside Kingston, the current capital and financial/cultural hub of the
country. This assignment was much the same as the
first, but in addition to ackees, they made hot sauces,
callalloo (Jamaican spinach), bammies (cassava patties),
browning, jerk seasonings, and other Jamaican specialties. Living in Kingston definitely brought challenges as
it is the most dangerous and unstable city in Jamaica,
though I never once had a problem.
I am pleased to say that I am still involved with
some of the people I interacted with during my summer
internship. While at my first assignment I became involved with a community group, the Sustainable Communities Foundation-St. Thomas. For a class I am currently working with another UVM student on a grant to
help give the group the resources they need to implement a community-based ecotourism project in the pov-
erty-stricken parish. The project aims to bring jobs and
money with the overall goal of alleviating poverty and
giving the youth the alternatives they deserve to the
gangs and drugs that are prevalent.
The highlights of my summer were not the long
days at work but the traveling that I did on my time off.
Listening to people who had
lived on the island their entire
lives as well as traveling with
Peace Corps people, I saw
places that I never imagined
existed and that very few
foreign tourists see. In addition to hidden coves and
warming mineral baths, I
took in many historical sights as well as the Reggae
SumFest, a three day music festival that starts hours
before midnight and goes until after the sunrise over the
nearby ocean. It includes Jamaican and the world’s best
reggae artists and thousands upon thousands of Jamaican fans dancing until the sun comes up. I will never
forget those days and nights spent with Jamaican and
American friends alike in some of the most beautiful
and unique places I have ever stepped foot.
I arrived in Jamaica completely naïve to my
surroundings and feeling out of place. I couldn’t understand the language, Patois, as it is unlike any English I
had ever heard. I was a minority in a country much less
diverse than even UVM. Within a few weeks I found
myself immersed in a totally new culture, talking and
joking around with some of the most beautiful and real
people I have ever met. I found myself laughing at the
tourists with their cornrows, shorts, and cameras glued
to the local children who were making fun of them in
Patois.
I went down with the goals of learning and
seeing a lot and coming back with a great tan. The tan
never happened as I was working and not sitting out on
a beach all day. I not only learned the history of Jamaica and more about information technology and agroprocessing, but more importantly I learned how to live
and thrive in another country, how to not stress when
things don’t go as planned, and how to do a great job of
improvising and making stuff up when you don’t know
what to do. I learned how to see the beauty in the simple things we take for granted here and how privileged
we truly are. I observed children running around barefooted playing all day with a simple plastic bottle compared to kids here who get bored on a $200 Playstation,
and who don’t have nearly as big a smile as these kids. I
saw that money truly does not buy happiness. I also saw
first hand how badly natural resources can be abused in
the struggle for survival and recognized that something
really needs to be done to help preserve the unique and
integral ecosystems in developing nations.
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Upcoming Events:
Celebrate the end of the semester with pizza, popcorn, and a movie!
The Diversity Taskforce will present the movie The Fast Runner at 6:00 PM on Wednesday, December
10th in Room 104 Aiken. Pizza, popcorn, soda, and cookies will be available at 5:30 prior to the start of
the movie. The movie has been called a masterpiece, recounting how evil, in the form of an unknown
shaman, divides a small, nomadic Inuit community, upsetting its balance and spirit. The Fast Runner is
the first film shot, produced and acted entirely by Inuits and has everything you could want in a movie:
amazing arctic scenery, a touching love story, a femme fatale, a flawed but moral hero, an evil villain, and
lots of dogs.
To make sure we have enough food, please RSVP Allan Strong by Monday, December 8th (656-2910,
Other Announcements:
The EPA's National Network for Environmental Management Studies Fellowship Program has just released
information on the 2004 Fellowships available. Approximately 40 research projects are being offered in 2004 in
the following categories:
1. Environmental Policy, Regulation, and Law
2. Environmental Management and Administration
3. Environmental Science
4. Public Relations and Communications
5. Computer Programming and Development
Recipients of the fellowships receive a stipend based on the student's level of education and the duration of the
project. To access the 2004 Program materials, please visit http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/students.html and click
on the "2004 Program materials" link. Feel free to contact Jan Spencer, ([email protected]) if you have
questions.
Graduate Project Assistantship Available - Stormwater
Funding is likely to support an MS-level graduate research project focused on the effects of lawn management
practices on quality of stormwater runoff to impaired streams in Chittenden County, Vermont. The preferred project start date is 1 June 2004, although a start date in late August 2004 will be considered. The ideal candidate will
have completed coursework and have some experience in environmental chemistry/biogeochemistry. A good
foundation in statistics and some knowledge of soil physics (hydrology) would be helpful. The student who is
selected will join a high quality group of students and faculty in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Further information about this project and about the
application process at UVM can be found at http://www.uvm.edu/~wbowden at the ‘Research’ hot link. For further information contact Breck Bowden at [email protected].
Graduate Project Assistantship Available – Arctic Stream Biogeochemistry
Funding is available to support either an MS- or a Ph.D.-level graduate research project focused on biogeochemical
dynamics in the hyporheic zone of Arctic streams on the North Slope of Alaska. This opportunity is part of a collaborative research project between the University of Vermont, Utah State University, and Boise State University
(Idaho). The ideal candidate will have completed coursework and have some experience in surface hydrology and
biogeochemistry. General experience with hydrological modeling and with solute injection methodologies would
be helpful. The student who is selected will join a high quality group of students and faculty in the Rubenstein
School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont in Burlington. The fieldwork will be
done at the Toolik Lake Field Station in Alaska from mid-May to mid-September, with mid-winter work a possibility. Students must be fit and able to work in an environment that is often harsh and difficult. Further information about this project and about the application process at UVM can be found at http://www.uvm.edu/~wbowden
at the ‘Research’ hot link. For further information contact Breck Bowden at [email protected].
Happy Holidays to everyone!
Hope you all have a wonderful and
relaxing winter break!
See you in January!
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Help Wanted
The following is a sampling of positions listed at ENVNR. Job postings are updated daily on the ENVNR Job Board outside
the Dean’s office in the Aiken Center and weekly on the web at http://www.uvm.edu/snr/?Page=employment/
help_wanted.html. For further information contact: Jan Spencer, Career Services Coordinator, 336 Aiken Center, 656-3003,
email: [email protected]
INTERNSHIPS
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION APRENTICESHIP AVAILABLE AT SHELBURNE
FARMS in Shelburne,VT. Duties include
teaching and assisting in the development of
agriculture and natural resource programs for
children and adults. If interested, send or email
a letter of intent and resume to: Christine
Durant, Shelburne Farms 1611 Harbor Road,
Shelburne, VT 05482 (802) 985-8686
[email protected] (I49)
MURIE CENTER INTERN NEEDED TO
WORK IN THE GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK in Moose, Wyoming. Duties
include pursuing independent projects, supporting program execution, supporting office
affairs, supporting facilities maintenance and
restoration work, overseeing ranch housekeeping, upgrading library and archives, and coordinating volunteers. If interested, send resume, preferred dates of internship, a letter
explaining you interest in our work and the
names, phone numbers, and email addresses of
four references (including at least two employment-related references) to Nancy Shea
[email protected], or phone at (307) 7392246. (I50)
communities in Washington DC on domestic
or international environmental issues. If interested, visit
http://www.infoed.org/new_spin/spin_prog.as
p?37290 Deadline in 1-10-04 (F4)
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE OFFERS A
STEWARDSHIP IN SCIENCE POLICY.
Fellows will learn about the analysis, development, and implementation of policies that
affect the conduct of medical research. If
interested, visit
http://www.infoed.org/new_spin/spin_prog?62
956 Deadline is 1-10-04 (F5)
THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE FOUNDATION has a Campus Ecology Fellowship
Program. The request for the fellowship proposals is due by Dec. 19, 2003. If interested,contact: Kathy Cacciola, Senior Coordinator, Campus Ecology Program, National
Wildlife Federation, 11100 Wildlife Center
Drive, Reston, VA 20190-5362 or call (703)
438-6318 or email [email protected] (F6)
BACHELOR’S DEGREE REQUIRED
FIELD BIOLOGIST POSITION AVAILABLE FOR A STUDY OF PINE DEMOGNTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE AS WILDLIFE RAPHY IN THE EVERGLADES NATECHNICIANS TO WORK FOR THE US
TIONAL PARK. Duties include taking a cenFISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE IN
sus of pines, measuring growth and survivorALASKA PENINSULA/ BECHAR of Naship, and to maintain seed traps and to census
tional Wildlife Refuge. Duties include, monitree seedlings. If interested, email a CV, a
toring waterfowl on the Naknek River, inven- letter describing your interests and experience
torying shorebirds in Bristol Bay lowlands,
in ecology, and the names addresses, phone
inventorying land birds within the refuges,
numbers, and email addresses of three referconducting inventory of small mammals and
ences to three references to bbeckpossibly invertebrates in the refuge. If [email protected] or email with any further quesested, contact Susan Savage, USFWS, PO Box tions. (B73)
277, King Salmon, AK 99613, OR email at
[email protected] (I68)
SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER
NEEDED IN THE RBF CONSULTING
ASSISTANT PLANNER NEEDED IN ST.
FIRM in Ontario,Canada. Responsibilities
ALBANS, VT. Duties include assisting with
include managing muti-disciplined teams,
local planning and zoning, and providing
directing technical studies, implementing
support for regional planning activities. If
public participation programs, developing
interested, send a resume with three references relationships with clients and public agencies,
to: Catherine Dimitruk, Executive Director,
mentoring and training staff, as well as periNorthwest Regional Planning Commission, 7
odic participation in various related tasks. If
Lake Street, Suite 201, St. Albans, VT 05478
interested, visit www.rbf.com or contact RBF
or visit www.nrpcvt.com/employment.shtml
Consulting 3536 Concours, Suite 220, Ontario,
CA 92764 or email [email protected] (B83)
(I95)
FELLOWSHIPS
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT MANAGER
POSITION AVAILABLE IN SAN JOSE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE HAS
AVAILABLE THE ROGER REVELLE FEL- CALIFORNIA WITH RBF CONSULTING.
Duties include the preparation and processing
LOWSHIP IN GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP.
Duties include working with the policy making of CEQA/NEPA documents, quality assurance
review of documents, management of project
teams and subcontractors, and jurisdiction and
agency coordination. To apply contact RBF
Consulting 111 W. St. John Street, Suite 850,
San Jose, CA 95113, or fax (949) 855-7060 or
email [email protected] (B84)
MASTER’S DEGREE REQUIRED
MARINE SCIENTIST AND ACTIVIST
NEEDED AT ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE IN NEW YORK CITY focusing on
Long Island and the northeast and mid-atlantic
regions. Duties include, working collaboratively with other environmental groups and
local and federal agencies to create a scientific
framework and strategies to restore costal
estuaries and bays. If interested, submit a
cover letter, resume and salary requirements
to: Cheryl Pickard, Human Resource Manager,
Environmental Defense, 1875 Connecticut
Avenue, NW, Washington C 20009; or fax
(202)387-1030 or email at
[email protected] (M25)
DIRECTOR OF SCIENCE, DIRECTOR OF
STEWARDSHIP NEEDED WITH THE NEW
JERSEY DELAWARE BAYSHORES PROGRAM. Duties include participating in ecoregional planning and subsequent development
and implementation strategies, measuring the
conservation success/determination of baseline
viability status, and monitoring protocols to
insure the long term viability of rare species
and communities on lands in which The Nature Conservatory has an interest in. If interested contact: The Nature Conservancy, Delaware bayshores Program, 2350 Route 47,
Delmont, NJ 08314 or email at
[email protected] (M26)
PhD REQUIRED
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN POPULATION ECOLOGY AVAILABLE at the University of Flordia. Candidate needed at the
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
(http://www.wec.ufl.edu/) and Florida Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit
(http://www.wec.ufl.edu/coop/) (PhD14)
TWO POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOR AN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RIDGELAND
SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT, AND
ASSISTANT EXTENSION SPECIALIST IN
WATERSHED, RIPARIAN, AND RIDGELAND MANAGEMENT at the University of
Arizona. If interested, visit
http://www.cals.arizonia.edu/srnr/posting/prof.
html (PhD20)