Month: July 2020 (Page 4 of 6)

Want to build solutions addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and land degradation? Eager to learn how multi-stakeholder dialogue can transform governance to get at the roots of environmental resource conflict, poverty and vulnerability? This is a part-time, unpaid internship suitable for current graduate students and recent graduates. You will work with a dynamic group of experts spread across diverse geographies. Interns will work at CoRe’s office at the Open Gov Hub in downtown Washington DC, which hosts a range of organizations working on democratic governance, citizen engagement and social justice. Remote appointments will be considered for exceptionally well-qualified candidates. 

SD Strategies is currently seeking a highly motivated individual to pursue a 3-month, full-time internship starting September 1, 2020. The intern will be based at the SD Strategies headquarters in Berlin, Germany.

SD Strategies is a policy and communications consultancy. They focus on issues at the intersection of economic and social development, energy, and the environment. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, SD Strategies often works as a collaborative work-desk partnering with leading individuals and institutions from all over the world. Their partners and clients are governments, international organizations, civil society actors and representatives of the private sector.

he research participant will have the opportunity to be involved in research investigating the benefits to water quality from oyster aquaculture operations in southern New England. Specifically, this research will focus on understanding the biology of improvements in water clarity through oyster filter feeding, and the human dimensions of these improvements in water quality to provide ecosystem services in selected estuaries in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The research participant may develop and apply quantitative, and/or qualitative approaches to support enhancing aquaculture operations to achieve stated water quality goals. The research participant will have the opportunity to collaborate with ecologists and economists to produce transferable and scalable social, economic, and ecological values and methods.

With guidance from their mentor, the research participant will have the opportunity to be involved in field experiments and laboratory analyses, developing, managing, and analyzing complex datasets; engaging aquaculturists and other stakeholders, and analyzing and reporting on participatory research efforts; collaborating on scientific writing or presentations; and implementing case study evaluations of aquaculture operations. This is an opportunity to learn about the ecological and social impacts of aquaculture efforts in southern New England and to apply data from multiple disciplines for improving decision making.

Application Deadline: July 31, 2020

Recent published studies have shown that high-flow events can induce undesired transport of contaminated sediments into surrounding areas (e.g., rivers, water reservoirs, private wells, etc.) and result in elevated levels of contaminants in the vicinity of contaminated sites.

This research project takes a systems approach to assess flood and climate vulnerabilities on United States contaminated sites, with a particular focus on Superfund sites in EPA regions and the nearby communities. The research results can be submitted for peer-review publications. The results could also be applied to inform contaminant clean-up planning and build community resilience to flood and related contaminant risks. 

Application deadline: August 12, 2020