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This course, BIOL 399D Biology Internship [SLN 10498 Term A] focuses on Environmental Interpretation, and offers hands-on training in practical interpretation and program delivery skills. For students who are interested in careers that interact with the public in the fields of natural and cultural history education, tourism and recreation, and communications. 

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[workshop]: Environmental Career Skills Workshop: The Job Interview

Spring Quarter Career Skills WorkshopEnvironmental Careers: The Job InterviewWednesday, 5/215:00 ~ 7:00 PMProgram on the Environment Commons, Wallace Hall 012
This workshop will introduce common formats and best practices for interviewing for jobs in a workshop format facilitated by Kimberly Petersen of the UW Career Center and Joe Kobayashi of PoE. 

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[graduate school]: Funded Graduate Assistantship for Semi-Aquatic Mammals, University of Illinois at Springfield

Interested in graduate programs in Environmental Science? Megan Styles, former post-doc teaching fellow with PoE sent along this cool (funded) opportunity.
I am recruiting a MS-level graduate student in Environmental Science to study the occupancy and potential interactions among semi-aquatic mammals (e.g., muskrats and river otters) in a large wetland restoration complex in central Illinois.   

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All Puget Sound area employers are invited to recruit at the upcoming Public Service Career Fair on Monday, May 19th from 4:00–7:00pm at Northeastern University – Seattle in South Lake Union. 

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Wastewater Treatment Division Internships

We have two open internship positions with King County Wastewater Treatment Division Community Services. These positions are set for 1 year with potential to extend to a second year. Work is focused on public involvement, education, and communications as it relates to wastewater treatment and sustainability and community engagement. 

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ESRM 442: Forest Ecology of the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains: Summer 2014 (June 17 – July 7) 

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Student Success Spotlight: Bryanda Wippel

Bryanda Wippel’s first marine biology course at the University of Washington sparked her desire to major in Environmental Studies and minor in Marine Biology as well as Aquatic and Fishery Science. 

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[internship] Watershed Planning Intern

Watershed Planning Intern – City of Bellevue 

The student intern is expected to perform tasks related to utility storm and surface water system analysis, including hydrology, environmental studies, biology and environmental engineering.  

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Serve as a Peer Facilitator!

The course, “Humans and the Environment in the Pacific Northwest,”will introduce about 35 visiting students from Keio University inJapan to topics ranging from forest ecology, water quality, and wasteto green building, restoration ecology and urban food sustainability.Peer Facilitators will assist in leading activities (including fieldtrips to places like Mt. 

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Special Seminar!

“Pine plantation forestry and wildlife conservation in Chile”
The mid-1970s marked the start of the boom in plantation forestry in Chile. These long extensions of monocultural forests harbored very little biodiversity and were depicted as “green deserts”. 

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