SEBS scholarships - APPLY NOW!

Dear Cook Community,

The 2015-2016 SEBS scholarship application process for currently enrolled
SEBS students has begun. Please encourage your students to apply.  
Use the following link: www.sebs.rutgers.edu/sfa for all scholarship
information, criteria, and applications. 

This website provides scholarship information for current students, incoming
first year students, and incoming transfer students for the Fall 2015
semester. 

Thank you.

Joe Ventola        

Joseph P. Ventola, Ed.D. 
Assistant Dean
Office of Academic Programs
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey
88 Lipman Drive
New Brunswick, N.J. 08901
 
Phone: 848-932-3000
Fax: 732-932-8880
Email: ventola@aesop.rutgers.edu 

Rutgers Energy Institute summer fellowships

The Rutgers Energy Institute offers several summer fellowships for undergraduates that would fulfill your experience-based education requirement.  Click here for details and scroll down toward the bottom of the page.

Internship/Part time job

An Opportunity

 

MIG Consulting LLC is a small environmental engineering company headquarted in Wilmington, DE with an office in Highland Park, NJ.  The NJ office is looking for an intern or part-time employee.  We are interested in students in Geological Sciences, Environmental Science, Environmental Planning & Design and Environmental Policy, Institutions and Behavior.  Much of MIG's work is concerned with remediation of contaminated gas stations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

 

MIG offers an interested student with the opportunity to work in an active environmental company.  MIG employees are engaged in initial site assessments through the application of technologies to clean up these sites.  Your duties may include:

 

    --Assisting in field investigations including monitoring well installation

    --Groundwater, sediment and soil sampling, including proper sample handling                     and adherence to chain-of-custody protocols

    --Data analysis to identify chemicals-of-concern

    --Report writing including groundwater modeling, risk assessments, ecological                     assessments

    --CAD design

 

If interested, please send a short note to newton3630@comcast.net and I'll establish an interview with IP Singh, president of MIG.  Mr. Singh is in Highland Park weekly.

   

Thank you for you time.

 

Newton A. Rose, Ph.D.

MIG Consulting LLC

Horticulture/Garden Intern in NYC

Horticulture/Garden Intern (seasonal)
Unpaid
Internship description
The Horticultural Society of New York (the Hort) is seeking an energetic and dedicated horticulturist to help with its garden projects. The internship starts March 2015 and goes through the end of the growing season, December 2015 .Projects are primarily sourced from supportive and affordable housing organizations, health service organizations, drug rehabilitation facilities, city schools, public libraries, and other organizations as well as private and public garden contracts. This intern will assist the Manager of Horticulture in carrying out garden maintenance and projects in a timely and professional manner. He or she will help oversee a work crew consisting of trainees from our workforce development program(who are looking to develop skills and experience as gardeners); and communicate progress on landscape projects to management.
For over a decade, The Hort's GreenCity program has provided low-cost landscape and garden design, remediation, construction, and maintenance services for under-resourced organizations and groups such as public schools and libraries, supportive housing facilities, rehabilitative institutions, and community gardens. The Hort assists them to help them create green spaces that improve the health and enjoyment of the constituents. Our professional horticulturists, horticultural therapists, and gardeners work with our trainees and local residents to create urban farms, communal gardens, green roofs, rain gardens and rainwater harvesting systems, along with other eco and green infrastructure projects. These projects increase food access, improve air and water quality, and enhance quality of life for low-income and disadvantaged individuals and communities in underserved areas.
Required qualifications:

•  Horticulturist/gardener with hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining gardens/farms
•  Interest in working with at-risk populations
• Knowledge of green infrastructure design and implementation
•  Valid New York State Driver's License
• Excellent communications skills, including ability to take initiative and perform follow-up
• Excellent computer skills a plus
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects at once

For more information about The Hort, and to explore our website, please visit us online at www.thehort.org.
How to apply
Please email your resume and cover letter to
George Pisegna at gpisegna@thehort.org with "Horticulture/Garden Intern" in the subject line.

NJ Dept of Health

There are several jobs available with the NJ Department of Health that would be a good match for some of our graduates.  They all involve trace metal analysis, but if you have taken 375:310 Analytical Environmental Chemistry Lab, you should be qualified.  These positions can be found HERE.

Belize

Dear Faculty,

I’m Ed Boles, Ph.D, and I teach a Marine and Watershed course in the summer in Belize. Do you know students who want more hands-on experience in the fields of ecology and conservation? Would they benefit from studying abroad for just two or four weeks? The Institute for Sustainable International Studies, ISIS Belize, offers conservation and ecology courses over the summer in English speaking Belize, in Central America. Our courses offer experiences in the jungle, the Belize Zoo, the savannahs, crystal clear rivers and in the Caribbean Sea.

Our summer sessions run in two week sections during June and July and carry three credit hours each. Students can take two courses back to back for six credits and spend a glorious month in Belize. For full details on the courses offered and the syllabus for each course, please click on the links below to our website at www.isisbelize.com. Class sizes are limited to 12 students to provide the best learning experience.
Wildlife Health, Ecology and Conservation
Tropical Marine Ecology and Conservation
Watershed Ecology, Conservation and Management NEW!



Our winter 2014 students had this to say:

Wildlife - “I had a great experience with ISIS doing my winter course of wildlife ecology. The program was easy to sign up for, the instructors and guest instructors/presenters where fantastic and very knowledgeable in the field. We had a lot of opportunities for hands on work and I am so glad I did it!”

Marine -“…We stayed in the jungle, on the cayes, and in San Ignacio, all of which gave us the opportunity to meet the local people and experience their way of living. The course itself was extremely hands on and gave us experience working with what we were learning about in ways that you most likely wouldn't have at your home school. The class was small, giving us a lot of face time with the teacher as well making it easy for the class to bond.. All in all, I'm not sure I could ever ask for a better experience and I'm so glad that I chose I.S.I.S. Belize to be my first study abroad program.”



A two week course is $2,825 (3 credits) and the two course session is $4,450 (6 credits). Airfare is not included. Application forms are available on our website. Transcripts are issued from Sacred Heart College in San Ignacio, Belize, or for those students needing transcripts from a US university, click here for details.

Please pass this information along to students who are looking for a study abroad opportunity or to those who want practical field work in their career choices. This is a great first time study abroad experience. Cynthia Reece, our Program Director for the Institute, can respond to questions related to housing, logistics, course costs, credit transfers and other details.





Sincerely,

Ed Boles, Ph.D.
Faculty Associate
Institute for Sustainable International Studies
San Ignacio, Cayo,
Belize, Central America