[event] – Burke Museum Visit with SAGE!

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Burke Museum Visit!
When: Tuesday, February 28th at 3:30. Group may go to get coffee afterwards.
Where: At the Burke Museum on campus. 
What: The Burke Museum presents Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, a traveling exhibit that provides a place to gather and discuss 21st century food issues and ideas.
Who: SAGE will be hosting and anyone is invited to attend!
Other: Remember to bring your student ID card to get into the Burke Museum for free!

[event] – Hanford: The World’s Largest Environment Clean-Up Effort

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Hanford: The World’s Largest Environmental Clean-Up Effort

When: Monday, February 27th from 6:30pm-8:00pm
Where: Smith 105 at the University of Washington
What: We invite you to join us to learn more about one of the world’s most complex and difficult cleanup efforts…right in your backyard! Located in the Southeastern part of Washington, the Hanford site is the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site.
Come listen to current University of Washington students and Heart of America Northwest representatives speak about the contamination issue we face today; our local Love Canal. How does this impact your health? How does this impact the land and species around it? What can you do to help?
 
Find out what Hanford means to YOU.
RSVP: Follow this link to Facebook to RSVP your attendance! 

[information session] – Summer Study Abroad – Rights, Governance and Culture in Sustainable Access to Water

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INFORMATION SESSION!

Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. in the PoE Commons

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The UW School of Law partners with the UW Program on the Environment to present: Rights, Governance and Culture in Sustainable Access to Water, a study abroad program held in Leon, Spain!

Location: Leon, Spain
Department:School of Law; Program on the Environment
Estimated Program Dates: June 18 – July 25, 2012
Estimated Program Fee: $4,475
Credits: 6
Program Director: Gregory A. Hicks, School of Law
UW Study Abroad Advisor:Katherine R. Kroeger kroegk@uw.edu
Application Deadline:February 15, 2012 EXTENDED to March 1, 2012

The course will be focused on water and especially on the operation of public policy, law, and customary practice as forces that shape how water is used and understood. While the course will study examples from a number of countries and focus broadly on the challenges of achieving and maintaining just, sustainable and environmentally sound water allocation, our location in Spain will offer unique opportunities for the course. Spain is a country where aridity and intense pressures for water-dependent development have combined to produce serious challenges surrounding water availability and allocation. Water issues in Spain are vivid and pressing, involving questions of fairness and sustainability, and there is a new focus on the impact of water institutions as part of the social fabric and as important structures in the country’s physical and social landscapes. We will be working in and coming to understand the Spanish countryside through the lens of the nation’s water policies and focusing, too, on globally significant questions that will help us understand the challenges of effective and just water governance

For more information, please view the Rights, Governance and Culture in Sustainable Access to Water Study Abroad Program website.

[volunteer] Mercer Slough volunteer opportunity!

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Mercer Slough is looking for Afterschool Nature Club Volunteers. This position is perfect for anyone interested in a career in Environmental Education!

Start Date: Current Session – March 13 or Spring Session – March 20

Time Commitment: One shift/week for 8-week Nature Club Session

Schedule: Afterschool Nature Club is on Tuesday afternoons from 3:00 PM – 6:30 PM (additional hours available)

TO APPLY: Email Jackie Wilson at jwilson@pacsci.org with your resume and any questions. (A return email will be sent containing an application for completion.)

Click for more information!

[contest] What Makes Your Campus Green?

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Submit a video of your own creation that addresses the question “What makes your campus green?”. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three video submissions that best represent creativity, originality, and appropriateness to the theme!

Deadline: April 6, 2012, 5:00 p.m. (Eastern time)

Videos must be no longer than three minutes and cannot have any brand logos—that includes your school’s name and mascot. Public vote will decide the ranking of the top three submissions.

First place—$2500

Second place—$1500

Third place—$1000

More information at hermanmiller.com/studentvideocontest.

Take a look at last year’s first place video in response to “Where’s your hub?”

[internship/job] – Taylor Shellfish Internship

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 Taylor Shellfish Internship

 

We are a vertically integrated shellfish company looking for qualified, self motivated individuals that want to work and learn in the aquaculture industry. Our goal is to integrate individuals into our management team.

Qualifications: Individuals must be able to work flexible hours to accommodate the tide schedule, enjoy working outside in the Puget Sound year round, have a knowledge and interest in cultivation, and prefer persons with a four year degree or working towards a four year degree.

Starting Pay: $15.00 per hour

Job Description:

Geoduck Farm Work

1.       Learn the responsibilities of caring for Geoduck seed.

2.       Take part in harvesting geoducks.

3.       Learn the duties and responsibilities of managing geoduck crops throughout their 6 year cycle.

Clam/Oyster Farm Work

1.       Work with farm managers to sample and survey clam/oyster populations.

2.       Help with ground maintenance to learn day to day farming tasks.

3.        Work at clam and oyster nursery screening and cleaning seed.

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to:

britt@taylorshellfish.com

or

Taylor Shellfish Farms

Attention: Brittany Taylor

130 SE Lynch Rd.

Shelton, WA 98584

Resumes must be received by April 1st, 2012.

[information session] – Volunteer Abroad for FREE with Omprakash.org

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Volunteer Abroad for FREE with Omprakash.org!
Tuesday, February 21st
12:30-1:20pm
Thomson Hall 317

Omprakash.org connects volunteers with grassroots health, education, and environmental projects around the world. We facilitate communication, collaboration, and mutual learning within a diverse international network of grassroots projects.  Our free database of global Partners can empower you to volunteer abroad, advocate at home, or enrich your school’s academic curriculum and service-learning programs.  We offer volunteer grants to help qualified applicants build lasting relationships with our outstanding Partners, and we enable these Partners to receive tax-deductible donations from their dedicated supporters. The Omprakash network currently supports over 157 Partner non-profits in over 35 countries spanning the globe. In 2011 alone, our Volunteer Grant program has provided over $30,000 to qualified recipients, enabling them to build lasting relationships with our amazing Partners around the world!

We invite health, educational, and environmental projects seeking a global audience to join us as Partners. Our network is open to everyone from prospective volunteers to donors, fundraisers, students, and educators looking to enrich their global curricula.

Don’t have time to travel abroad, but want to offer your skills to a project in need? We can help! Many of our Partners seek online assistance from volunteers with backgrounds in law, fundraising, business consulting, and more.

Learn more at today’s info session or at: www.omprakash.org

Want to intern at Boeing? Yes you do!

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Boeing’s Environment, Health & Safety Remediation organization has an opening for a summer intern.

 Description:

An intern with the Environmental Remediation group will be working at a variety of different sites in the Seattle, Washington area. The work will be primarily field work with some desk assignments. Typical job assignments are tasks such as ground water and soil sampling, aquifer testing, oversight and coordination of contractors and consultants, and assisting in the preparation of field activity reports.

The intern will be assigned a mentor for the duration of their internship and will have the opportunity to participating in a variety of activities offered by the Boeing Internship Program. The intern will have an opportunity to see how private business works to meet regulatory requirements, interacts with government regulators and fulfills its obligation to protect the environment and remediate past release.

Requisition Number: 12-1002974

Check out a full description on their website: http://www.boeing.com/

[course] – UW Alumni Class of 1954 and 1957 Scholarships

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The Class of 1957 Scholar Award is sponsored by the UW Alumni Class of 1957 to provides scholarship support to outstanding undergraduate students at the University of Washington.

Eligible Students must be:

  1. Sophomores, juniors or seniors as of autumn quarter 2011; graduating seniors are not eligible unless they are intend to enroll as a full-time student summer or fall quarter 2012; 
  2. Have a 3.3 minimum grade point average;
  3. Financial need as indicated by the Financial Aid Office; and
  4. Able to demonstrate academic merit through involvement in activities relevant to their academic, career and/or professional goals.  Appropriate activities can be research, internships, study abroad or other experiential activities.

Additional information can be found at the following URL.  The scholarship application is via Catalyst.

URL: https://www.washington.edu/students/ugrad/scholar/scholarships/s/Classof1957Award

Application:   https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/scholarq/158651 .

Deadline:  Thursday, April 5, 2012

The UW Class of 1954 Achievement Scholarship will be awarded to outstanding students at the University of Washington (UW) who, by their achievements and goals, enrich society and themselves. 

Eligible students must be: 

  1. Juniors and seniors as of autumn quarter 2011,
  2. Have a 3.3 minimum grade point average,
  3. Financial need as indicated by the Financial Aid Office, and
  4. Able to demonstrate involvement in and relevance of extra-curricular activities to their academic, career and/or professional goals.  Activities can be research, internships, study abroad, service, leadership or other experiential activities.

Additional information can be found on the following URL. The scholarship application is via Catalyst.

URL: https://www.washington.edu/students/ugrad/scholar/scholarships/s/UWClassof1954

Application:    https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/scholarq/158660

Deadline: Thursday, April 5, 2012

For additional information, please contact the Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships & Awards.