[SRM] Fwd: Paid student internships at environmental organizations

Wed Mar 30 14:20:59 MST 2022

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From: Davis, Leona - (leonafdavis) <leonafdavis at arizona.edu>
Date: Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 9:57 AM
Subject: Paid student internships at environmental organizations
To: uofatierraseca at gmail.com <uofatierraseca at gmail.com>

Hi Tierra Seca leaders,

We are now recruiting for the 2022-23 Earth Grant student cohort, a
leadership development and paid internship program for UArizona undergrads
passionate about environmental and community issues. I aimed to chat with
you during the SNRE fair on Friday, but your table was popular and I didn’t
get a chance! I wanted to ask if you would be able to share this program
info, below, with your members, especially as some of our internship
opportunities are field-based and related to land management. Details about
the program are below. Just let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Leona, Earth Grant program coordinator

*Earth Grant is a leadership development and paid internship program for a
UArizona students passionate about environmental and community resilience. *

This program is open to undergraduates from any department or major who
wish to develop their professional skills and experience in
environment-related fields. This program prioritizes diverse identities and
perspectives in our student cohort members and others we partner with,
though students of all identities are eligible to apply.

[image: This photo collage shows various Earth Grant students engaged in
their internship work and cohort activities. Students are shown building
with straw bale, monitoring native fish, posing by a large compost pile,
gardening, and walking in the Sonoran Desert.]
<http://www.environment.arizona.edu/earthgrant>

*Image description: This photo collage shows various Earth Grant students
engaged in their internship work and cohort activities. Students are shown
building with straw bale, monitoring native fish, posing by a large compost
pile, gardening, and walking in the Sonoran Desert.*

*About the program: *Participation in this program includes working at a
paid internship and participating in weekly cohort activities for the
academic year (Fall 2022 and Spring 2023)

*Paid internship*- Individually, each student is matched with a
professional mentor working in their field of interest for a 5-20 hr/week
internship, and paid as a UA student employee at $18/hr. In this
internship, the student has the chance to try out a professional field that
they consider pursuing, while contributing to real-world projects that
benefit communities and the environment. Learn more about our 2022-23
internships <https://environment.arizona.edu/earthgrant/2022-23-internships>

*Cohort activities*- As a cohort, students engage in weekly activities to
learn and practice cross-sector leadership and professional skills, and
regularly reflect, share struggles and give feedback within this group of
peers who care about the similar issues. These meetings are collaborative
and participatory, and designed to build lasting relationships which
continue after the program year. Students earn one academic credit per
semester (RNR496) for cohort activities.

*Visit our website <https://environment.arizona.edu/earthgrant>* *to learn
more and apply! Applications due Monday, April 25.*

*Application questions? *Join us for an informational webinar and
application walk through for students, *Friday April 15 from 12:30-1pm*. No
registration necessary. Click to join: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/85905435582

*Internship opportunities include:*

*Pima County Office of Sustainability and Conservation – Sonoran Desert
Conservation Plan Intern: *Pima County's Ecological Monitoring Program,
housed within the Office of Sustainability and Conservation, is an
important component of the County's conservation and stewardship of its
more than 250,000 acres of open space lands.  The Ecological Monitoring
Program is a collaborative effort, working with many County staff in
different departments, as well as a variety of local, state, and federal
partners.  The monitoring program is tasked with tracking the health of the
County's open space lands and is an important part of the County's
compliance with the federal Endangered Species Act through its Section 10
permit issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The intern will work with a variety of staff in the field as well as in the
office.  Office-based work will include working towards developing a
digital photo management system to effectively store, organize, and tag
large numbers of images related to the monitoring program (images of
resources, places, species, etc.).  Field work will be an important and
regular part of the intern's experience and will target monitoring plants
and animals on the County's lands.  In particular, there will be
opportunities to contribute meaningfully towards creation and
implementation of monitoring protocols for rare wetland plants, as well as
an endangered cactus species.

Website: https://webcms.pima.gov/government/sustainability_and_conservation/

*Collaborative Conservation and Adaptation Strategy Toolbox (CCAST) – CCAST
Program Assistant:* This writing-intensive internship is a great
opportunity to gain more experience with active water and natural resource
management programs, work closely with senior scientists, land managers,
and a diverse group of stakeholders to produce publications of value and
provide support to the conservation community. The work involves
interacting with a team of senior scientists and the diverse stakeholders
CCAST supports. This includes drafting and editing case studies for
publication on the CCAST website, and support for emerging Communities of
Practice (i.e., networks of practitioners, researchers, and policy makers)
for non-native aquatic species, grassland restoration, drought management,
and pollinator conservation. Internship work will involve regular
interaction with scientists and managers across federal, state, and tribal
government agencies, NGOs, research institutions, and private landowners.

Website: Collaborative Conservation and Adaptation Strategy Toolbox (CCAST)
(arcgis.com)
<https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=01245fcb9dec43938996e18b53f0f142>

*AZ Department of Forestry and Fire Management – Arizona Magnificent Tree
Program Assistant:* The Arizona Magnificent Trees Program, sponsored by the
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management (DFFM), seeks to create
a living record of magnificent and majestic trees in our state’s forests
and communities. Trees play an important role in the ecosystem and human
health and well-being, including environmental benefits, economic benefits,
and aesthetic and psychological benefits. The Arizona Magnificent Tree
Program connects us to trees, increases awareness of the field of forestry
and urban forestry, and encourages people to pay attention to trees as
critical ecosystem species. Specifically, the Arizona Magnificent Tree
Program is an award program designed to publicly recognize trees that are
the largest of their species (Champion Trees), trees that have cultural
significance and a direct connection to people (Heritage Trees), and trees
that are proven to have been in their same location before Arizona
Statehood in 1912 (Witness Trees). We’ve got a database full of magnificent
trees that have been nominated over the last 22 years, as well as a list of
50+ trees that need to be reverified and have recently trained a group of
volunteers to help us measure those so we can get back on track in 2022.
Depending upon your interests, you can help us with one or more of the
following: (1) Measurement of trees located in various locations across the
state; (2) Editing and modification of the database that houses the tree
measurement and champion tree data; (3) Edits and updates to the AZ
Magnificent Tree Program Guidance Manual; (4) Scanning of historical
documents from nominations received prior to 2017; (5) GIS/Google Map of
publicly accessible nominated trees for sharing with the community; (6)
Assisting with or participating in tree measurement workshop in Sedona (in
September 2022) and Tucson/Southern AZ (in Spring 2023)

Website: www.dffm.az.gov
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