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Environmental
Studies Program Internship
Steven Rudnick, Associate Director Environmental Studies Program
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ENVSTY 301 Internship in Environmental Studies
1 credit = 100-150 hours of service
2 credits = 151-200 hours of service
3 credits = >200 hours of service |
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responsibilities |
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Maintain
a mutually agreed upon schedule with your host and notify
them if circumstances arise that prevent you from making
your regular time commitments. |
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Keep
a daily-weekly journal in which you write about your experiences
and share insights that you have gained. |
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Write
a 5-10 page paper reflecting your experiences and the
role the internship has played in your professional and
academic goals.
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| Your
host’s responsibilities |
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While
researching internship possibilities please make your
host aware that they will have to provide you and the
UESP with a short formal written evaluation letter describing
your activities and the role you played in the organization. |
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To help you start thinking about the type of experiences that
are available, the following is a very short list of organizations
that may have either formal or informal internship possibilities. |
Special notes: Steve Rudnick and other EEOS personnel have some
personal contacts at many of the institutions listed below.
The internship experience can be on or off campus and some settings
provide stipends. On campus experience may include research
experiences in labs.
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Town-City
level
Conservation Committees, Board of Health Committees
Boston Public Health CommissionMA Association of Conservation
Commissions
Watershed level
Neponset River Watershed Association, Mystic River Watershed
Association
State level (see http://www.state.ma.us/)
MA-DEP, MA-DEQ, MDC, MWRA
Federal
EPA-region 1 (Boston), EPA-Washington |
Industry
CDM, TetraTech NUS
Research institutions
WHOI, MBL
Not-for-profits
Environmental Defense, Silent Spring Institute, Audubon
Society, Water Watch , New England Aquarium
EOA (Executive Environmental Affairs)Working
with ECOS graduate student putting together water quality
data set for Mystic, Neponeset and Ware Watersheds
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