MOSES is hiring a Communications and Marketing Specialist–come work with us! We’re a small but mighty team and we’re looking for someone to help communicate the mission, vision, and impact of our work. This position is remote and will be open until filled. Read on for more details and click here to see the full job posting (also attached).
About the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES): MOSES is a farmer-led nonprofit organization that emerged out of the Midwest Organic Farming Conference, an event we’ve been putting on annually for over 30 years. The conference is known as the first and the largest organic farming conference in the United States. Throughout the year, MOSES also supports a community of 20,000 small and mid-scale organic and sustainable farmers across the upper Midwest, providing free and affordable, farmer-led and -informed educational events, programs, and print and digital resources.
MOSES joins in solidarity with all of the farmers, partner organizations, and community members who are working toward equity and racial justice and is committed to building a diverse staff. We strongly encourage applications from those typically underrepresented in farming and agriculture, including Black, Indigenous, and people of color, those who identify as LGBTQIA+, and women.
Job Summary: The Communications and Marketing Specialist develops and implements communications and marketing materials that consistently articulate and advance MOSES’ mission and goals. This position is responsible for digital communications, managing web presence, event marketing and public relations, and overseeing print and digital publications. This person works closely with staff as the communications partner on all projects, events, and strategic initiatives, including MOSES’ annual Organic Farming Conference. A self-directed and independent work style with the ability to work collaboratively in a seasonally fast-paced work environment is critical.
Seeking part-time (20-30 hours/week) field assistant to aid in ecological data collection and observations in sundial lupine populations (Lupinus perennis). This position is for the summer of 2022, from May to July.
This study will assess blue lupine populations and their associated insect pollinators in Pennsylvania. The effects of prescribed fire and deer browsing on lupine fitness, pollination and habitats will be investigated through field measurement and observation. Population genetic differentiation will be assessed in the lab.
Location: This position is based in State College, PA.
Pay: $15.00/hour
Specific Duties: Duties will include (but are not limited to) inventorying plant species composition; measuring environmental factors such as canopy cover, soils and leaf litter; operating field cameras for deer and pollinator observation; observing pollinator visitation and collecting bee specimens; processing, recording, and entering data on paper and in Excel. Lab experience with DNA extractions and PCR would be ideal but is not required.
If interested, please send a cover letter (single page) and resume to Isabella Petitta (irp5068@psu.edu). Please contact me with any questions!
Opportunity to work in a cutting-edge research lab that merges precision technologies with sustainable agricultural practices. We are a large multi-disciplinary team that is developing climate smart solutions in field crop production systems with a focus on cover crops, soil health, and weed management. Be a part of the USDA-ARS Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory in Beltsville, MD!
Interns will work with large scale field experiments and encounter agricultural equipment and various sensor technologies. You will have the opportunity to learn about agroecosystems in the Mid-Atlantic region and gain professional research skills such as plant and soil sampling, processing, and analysis; plant identification; data management; and testing new remote sensing, computer vision, and IoT technologies.
Paid and unpaid internships are available, based on the applicant’s experience with lab and/or field research. Full or part time positions available. Applicants may be eligible for college credit. Internships are in-person at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, MD. Undergraduates at all class levels are encouraged to apply.
To Apply:
Please send your resume, unofficial transcripts, and summer availability to Ethan Sweep at edsweep@ncsu.edu and Gwen Bagley at gabagley@ncsu.edu.
Here’s an opportunity for students to gain community-oriented research skills and hands-on experience with urban agriculture while working for pandemic resilience, food security, and climate justice this summer at the Radix Ecological Sustainability Center in Albany, New York. This program is being offered as an AmeriCorps VISTA program through Siena College.
The program runs from June 6th through July 29th and pays a $2055 living stipend. Upon completion, there is a $1311.11 educational award (or $245.00 cash award). This is a full-time (35 hours a week) volunteer fellowship position. Room and board is not provided. Accepted Fellows will be responsible for locating their own summer housing. For more information, please email: sk@radixcenter.org
Just Urban Transitions – Critical Engagement at the Intersection of Food, Climate, Ecology, Health, Race, and Equity
The Radix Ecological Sustainability Center is an urban ecological literacy and just sustainabilities advocacy non-profit in the South End of Albany, New York (www.radixcenter.org). We strive for social justice, equity, and ecological regeneration by educating and empowering local community members with the resources, tools, skills, and knowledge for doing this work. We maintain a one-acre urban farm with demonstrations of gardens, composting, microlivestock, rainwater harvesting, renewable energy, beekeeping, and more, and strive to have these systems replicated in a decentralized network throughout the city. More broadly, we support and advocate for environmental justice causes in the region.
This AmeriCorps project focuses on building community resilience and justice in the South End by increasing local food security and mutual support networks amidst the ongoing challenges of systemic racism, inequality, climate chaos, and the ongoing pandemic. On the direct service end, program participants will be engaged primarily in the maintenance of summer gardens and in surplus food redistribution/composting, street tree watering, and river remediation. Additional responsibilities include staffing local farmers’ markets and supporting our general operations. Generally, we meet Monday through Thursday including Thursday evenings. Morning hours will be completed on multiple gardening sites and afternoon hours will vary between research, collective writing tasks, youth mentorship, facilitating group discussions, field trips, literature reviews, leading community presentations, conducting and transcribing interviews, and organizing open houses.
On the research side of the program, we apply a social justice analysis to urban ecology. Fellows will conduct ongoing participant observations, informal interviews, document daily fieldnotes, and submit weekly analytic memos. IRB: Human Subject Research CITI training and PAR consent forms must be completed at least two weeks prior to the start date of the program, with the goal of collectively submitting a final project write-up to an academic journal for publication.
Using a sociological framework, we explore the emergent concept of “urban ecosystem justice.” With it, we ask questions of how social issues of class and race, access, equity, and fairness apply to both the biophysical dimensions of urban ecosystems such as soils, watersheds, biodiversity, waste cycles and climate as well as to issues of social sustainability and resource equity. In doing so, we will examine whether it is possible to meet the material needs of city residents while simultaneously regenerating urban socio-ecological health. Further questions include whether urban ecosystem benefits can be distributed equally amongst a populace without further aggravating “green gentrification”, “disaster capitalism”, or “urban ecological securitization.” The program will synthesize the social critiques of urban political ecology and environmental justice with the concepts of adaptive governance, urban commons, just sustainabilities, and resilience science.
AmeriCorps fellows will additionally engage in aspects of the Radix summer EcoJustice Associate summer youth employment program including facilitating a four-week urban agriculture/environmental justice-themed program for high school-aged Albany youth, taking on teaching roles in the ecojustice youth curriculum, and engaging in physical gardening activities. Using YPAR (youth participatory action research) method fellows will engage youth in documenting ecological conditions in Albany’s South End culminating in the creation and presentation of visual, recorded, and written information to benefit the local community and create positive social change.
It is essential that applicants have a commitment to principles of racial justice, gender equity, and be experienced working in diverse communities. Furthermore, applicants should be comfortable working outdoors in hot summer weather conditions with plants, soils, compost, and animals. The ideal applicant will be capable of working both in groups and individually. We strongly encourage BIPOC candidates, people identifying as LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, and people with working-class backgrounds to apply.
Interested applicants should send a letter of interest to Scott Kellogg at sk@radixcenter.org by April 8th
The Environmental Studies Program recently reviewed and updated this track to update offerings that had become out of date or are no longer in line with the content of the track. Students who have taken the impacted courses on or before Spring 2022 can still use them to fulfill their track requirements. Here’s an overview of the changes.
Intro-level classes:
Removed:
CH 1 Introduction to Community Health
CHEM 8 Environmental Chemistry
Added:
SOC114 Environmental Sociology
Methods/Research classes:
Removed:
ME011 Thermodynamics Applied to Sustainable Energy
ENV 199 Senior Honors Thesis
Under Electives:
Removed:
ANTH 138 The Anthropocene and the End of Nature
ANTH 30 Food, Nutrition, and Culture
CEE 039 Hazardous Materials Management
CEE 057 Public Health
CEE 138 Hazardous Waste Treatment Technology
CEE 167 Environmental Toxicology
CEE 173 Health Effects and Risk Assessment
CEE 251 Biology, Water, and Health
CH 106 Health, Ethics and Policy
CH 188-09 Health, Equity, and the Built Environment
EC 30 Environmental Economics
NUTR 221 Global Food Business
NUTR 224 Community Food Planning and Programs
NUTR 233 Agricultural Science and Politics I
PS 188 Gender Issues in the World
SOC 135 Social Movements
SOC 188-04 Consumers and Consumerism
SOC 94 People, Place, and Environment
Added:
ANTH28: Anthropology of Capitalism
CH196: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Global Health
The National Council for Air and Stream Improvement is seeking a qualified technician to join our bird point count team on an experimental forestry study in Coastal Oregon. We are looking for candidates with prior work or recreational experience identifying birds by sound.
Position: Wildlife Biologist I
Reports to: Passerine Point Count Associate Scientist
Work Week: Exempt position; 40-45 hours per week to meet work demands
Revised: December 16, 2021
Duty Station: Northwest OR (Coast Range); Sheridan, OR.
Duration: May 3rd through August 2022
Salary: $3,050/month; housing will be provided
Essential Job Functions:
1. Conduct bird point counts.
2. Collect vegetation/habitat data.
3. Position will require working outdoors in inclement weather, often in recently harvested forest stands. Must be able to get to and work from remote locations, drive forest roads, read maps, navigate through a forested landscape, and relate well with the public.
4. Gather and analyze data and related information.
5. Willingness to have a flexible work schedule.
6. Demonstrate an ability to work effectively with others toward meeting the goals of the National Council.
7. Develop a familiarity with NCASI’s mission, policies, practices, and procedures.
8. Become acquainted with the environmental issues of the forest products industry.
9. Read, absorb, process, and communicate complex information. Assist the supervisor in responding to technical queries by NCASI clients and others in a competent and timely manner.
10. Possess ability to carry-out associated field work that may involve prolonged (multi-day) exposure to inclement conditions and a necessity to hike carrying equipment (20 pounds or more) over rough terrain (for 2 miles or more).
Additional Responsibilities and Requirements:
1. Undertakes additional activities as assigned by Supervisor.
2. Follow all COVID safety protocols.
3. Provide proof of full COVID vaccination.
Minimum Qualifications:
1. A Bachelor’s degree in a biological sciences discipline or related environmental field and knowledge of passerine ID by sight and song.
2. Must have driving record which can be approved by Federal Agencies to drive government vehicles and insured at standard rates.
3. Basic data entry experience (Microsoft Excel).
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Passerine ID experience – with a focus on auditory ID of birds in Western states.
TO APPLY: Please send cover letter, resume, and 3 references with phone numbers and e-mail addresses to: Laurie Clark, NCASI, 8769 Hwy 42, Tenmile, OR 97481, preferably delivered electronically to: lclark@ncasi.org, with “Crew Application Bio I” in the subject line. Applicant review will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. NCASI is an equal opportunity employer.
The Sala Lab at Arizona State University is looking for motivated undergraduate students to participate in research activities in grassland ecosystem ecology, for 10 weeks, during the summer of 2022. Successful applicants will work with graduate students, technicians and postdocs to assist with ongoing rainfall manipulation experiments, vegetation and soil sampling, and other field surveys at several field sites across the US. Additionally, participants have the opportunity to work with Sala Lab members and the PI to develop a personalized project.
Activities will be based at the Jornada Experimental Range (~25miles from Las Cruces, NM).
The successful applicants are awarded a stipend, which is to cover food, lodging, and travel costs.
About the Jornada
The Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research Program is focused on the ecology of drylands in the southwest USA, including the causes and consequences of alternative ecosystem states and the expansion of woody plants into grasslands resulting in more “desert like” conditions. By conducting long-term precipitation manipulation experiments, we are interested in how long-term changes to precipitation amount and variability affect ecosystem functioning.
More information on the Sala Lab and LTER is available at https://jornada.nmsu.edu/lter
Eligibility
Undergraduate student participants supported with NSF funds in either REU Supplements or REU Sites must be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or permanent residents of the United States. An undergraduate student is a student who is enrolled in a degree program (part-time or full-time) leading to a baccalaureate or associate degree.
How to apply
Applications are evaluated upon submission, and positions will be filled as long as funding is available. Please send application materials to the Sala Lab’s Manager Stephen Doucette-Riise e-mail: sdoucet1@asu.edu by April 14, 2022.
Application materials must include:
Cover Letter
Resume or CV
Unofficial undergraduate transcript
