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

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Spring Quarter Career Skills Workshop
Environmental Careers: The Job Interview
Wednesday, 5/21
5:00 ~ 7:00 PM
Program 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. A panel of alumni will be volunteering to put these recommendations in the context of their experience applying for (or accepting applications for) environmentally-related jobs. Alumni will facilitate small groups to get feedback on practice questions.

Small group work will be followed by dinner, drinks, and an opportunity to network with alumni of our program!

This workshop is free to current UW students (any major), but Environmental Studies majors get priority. Dress code is casual, but you must RSVP at the e-vite below (I need to get an accurate count to order food).

[Link to E-vite RSVP – REQUIRED]

Alumni Volunteers:
Paul Chavez, Infrastructure and Logistics, Red Bull North America
Meggie Kernahan, Technical Sales Representative, NRC Environmental Services
Makenna O’Meara, Assistant to the Director of Advertising, Accretive Technology Group
Megan Parker, Associate, Ross Strategic
Shane Sobotka, Manager, Project Development, OneEnergy Renewables, Inc.
Jamie Stroble, WILD (Wilderness Inner-City Leadership Development)

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The Nosh on Nature Series (previously known as PoE Lunch) will be happening 3 times this quarter on Thursdays at 12:30pm in the PoE Commons. 

The first part of the series Outdoors and Hors d’oeuvres is happening on April 24th, and will focus on PoE’s summer outdoor adventures and fieldwork opportunities.  Lunch WILL be provided and its important that all attendees RSVP  to poeadv@uw.edu to attend.  

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UW School of Law’s Minority Law Students Association (MLSA) is hosting a pre-law panel for UW undergraduates to learn about applying to the UW School of Law and the experiences of law school. Current students and the Assistant Director of Admissions will be there to share advice and also answer questions during a Q&A session. This will also be an opportunity for the undergraduates to reach out to the law students for future mentorship. Light refreshments provided!

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Date: April 29th

Time: 5:00- 6:00 pm

​Room: William Gates Hall room 127​

 

 

For specific questions about the event, please contact Ashley Brown,abrown08@uw.edu.

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Please join us for high adventure on April 24, 2014 as Washington Water Trust hosts the Seattle premiere of the 12th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival. The festival originates in Nevada City, CA and tours to different cities across the country delivering award-winning films about nature, adventure, water, energy, climate change, wildlife and indigenous cultures.

Come experience the Wild & Scenic!
When:    Thursday April 24, 2014
Where:   SIFF Cinema Uptown Theatre

Purchase Tickets: $15
RSVP for the Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Facebook


One complimentary beer/wine and a raffle ticket is included with each festival ticket purchase.

Prepare to be amazed, motivated, inspired and wowed by more than eight films including The Strong People, which tells the story of the Elwha dam removal, and Momenta, which describes the impact of the planned coal export trains through the Pacific Northwest. Other films will take us on real life adventures into the natural world—hiking with daring kayakers into a remote Mexican jungle in search of the perfect waterfall from which to plummet; reveling in the adventure of catching air; discovering what motivated a man nicknamed SLOMO to live by inline skate; and floating the Trinity River of California with a five year-old boy in search of his first steelhead.
 
5:00 pm – Happy Hour
6:00 pm – First Film Session
7:15 pm – Intermission & Raffle
7:40 pm – Second Film Session

All proceeds from this event will support the work of Washington Water Trust, a 501c3 nonprofit.

Hope to see you there!

PoE Meet and Great April 9th!

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Please join us on April 9th from 1:40pm- 2:45pm in the PoE Commons for the 2014 PoE Meet and Great!! Come experience and learn about 31 projects from 20 different organizations! 

In order to attend, you must RSVP with poeadv@uw.edu before April 9th.

See you there! 

Kincaid Ravine Final Work Party March 15th

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Come take a break from studying for finals, and get your hands dirty in the Kincaid Ravine at the final work party of winter quarter! We have plants and mulch installed along the trail. The site is looking amazing, come and check out the progress! Our focus this week will be continuing removing invasive species.

WORK PARTY FROM 10-2 THIS SATURDAY THE 15th IN THE KINCAID RAVINE!!

  • Tools, gloves, and refreshments provided.
  • Wear boots and bring a water bottle!
  • Meet us on the Burke-Gilman Trail underneath the 45th St Viaduct.
  • Sign-up link for EarthCorps work parties:  http://www.earthcorps.org/volunteer.php. Please sign-up ahead of time if possible.
  • Help our Volunteer Coordinator, Yiyan Ge with her senior capstone project by filling out a short survey about restoration volunteershttps://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/geyiyan/224294

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Documenting Subsistence in Alaska: A Few Things Learned…

Jim Magdanz
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Subsistence Division (retired)
UAF – Resilience and Adaptation Program, Graduate School, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Ph.D. student)
UW – Biocultural Anthropology (visiting student)

Friday March 14
3:30-5pm
Denny Hall 205

Jim Magdanz will present some results from 30-years of subsistence research in Alaska.  Since 1980, state and federal laws have provided a priority for subsistence hunting and fishing over other consumptive uses such as commercial fishing. The state’s Division of Subsistence, directed primarily by anthropologists, became the primary source of information about Alaska’s subsistence economies. Jim was one of the Division’s earliest field researchers. He  spent his 30-year career living and working in Nome, Kotzebue, and surrounding smaller communities. He will discuss the legal framework for Alaska’s subsistence priority, community population and harvest trends, their implications for sustainability, and social network analysis as a method to untangle the complex cooperative production systems in Native communities. Jim resigned from the Division of Subsistence in 2012 to pursue a Ph.D. in natural resources, and is currently a visiting graduate student in biocultural anthropology at UW. 

About the speaker: 
Jim is a Ph.D. student in natural resources and sustainability at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a visiting graduate student in biocultural anthropology at the University of Washington Seattle, with an emphasis on network analysis.

Jim came to Alaska as a photojournalist, fascinated by a group of 5-to-10-year-old Iñupiaq children he met during their visit to an Iowa dairy farm. Compared with children he knew, the Iñupiat were self-confident, calm, mature, and cooperative, not competitive. They shed no tears, threw no tantrums, and played with great joy. “What kind of place raises kids like this?” he wondered. So he went to Alaska, and spent the next 30 years of his life living in and studying small Iñupiaq communities in Arctic Alaska.

In 1981, he joined the Division of Subsistence, a small social science research group embedded in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. In his first project, a “simple” subsistence harvest estimation problem developed into a continuing interest in network analysis as a method to understand rural economies. Analyses showed that Iñupiat produced and distributed wild foods within multi-household, extended family structures very similar to those of their ancestors, despite profound social and economic changes over the last century. As his investments in network research grew, he realized he needed to improve his network analysis skills, so he resigned to return to graduate school full time.

Environmental Management Keystone Symposium

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Hello PoE community!
Our Environmental Management students are wrapping up their keystone projects toward earning their certificates. Please join in hearing about their work and celebrating their accomplishments tackling real world environmental challenges and advancing sustainability solutions in our community.
This event is free and open to the public. Please feel free to share widely.
Environmental Management Keystone Symposium
Thursday, March 13, 2014 | 4:30-6:30pm
University of Washington Alder Hall Auditorium & Commons, 1310 NE 40th St. Seattle, WA 98105. Entrance on NE 40th St. between Brooklyn Ave NE and University Way NE
Format: Project presentations followed by a reception with hors d’oeuvres and refreshments
No registration or tickets required. Please RSVP to ademelle@gmail.com.
Projects
  • UW Residence Hall Energy Challenge
    Client: UW Facilities Services
  • Emerging Risks Workgroup: Helping to Better Prepare NOAA for Spill Prevention and Response
    Client: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • Regional Open Space Strategy (ROSS): Ecosystem Services and Open Space Prioritization
    Clients: Green Futures Lab & ROSS Stakeholder Organizations
  • Agency Coordination with Offshore Wind Energy Projects in Washington State
    Client: Washington State Department of Commerce

Winter Quarter Farm Lunch Speaker Schedule

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Hi POE’ers,

Just a heads up – here is the schedule of speakers this quarter in Farm Lunch – please feel free to come yourselves, and/or send students you think might be interested – this week:
keeping chickens in the city!
Feel free to join us: Wednesdays upstairs in Wallace 120 at 12:30. 
Cheers,
Beth
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Farm Lunch Seminar – ENVIR 495

Instructor: Elizabeth Wheat, Ph.D.

Location: Wallace Hall rm 120;

Time: Wednesday 12:30 to 1:20

Course Goals:

To deepen our systemic understanding of agriculture and urban food systems.

To foster community among students/faculty/community members interested in the food movement at UW.    

Schedule of Speakers:

Jan 8 – Introduction to the seminar – collection of ideas, dreams etc.

Jan 15 –  Keeping Chickens in the City – Elizabeth Wheat, Ph.D.

Jan 22 –  Food Justice & Community Gardens in Italy – Ann Anagnost, Ph.D.

Jan 29 – City Grown – a farm in the city – Becky Warner, farmer

Feb 5 – San Juan Island Sea Salt – Brady Ryan, farmer

Feb 12 – Nutrition and Food Policy – Jennifer Otten, Ph.D.

Feb 19 – Food Bank, Farming and Social Justice– Cary Peterson, farmer, community activist

Feb 26 – Panel of Young Farmers: why I farm – Speakers – TBA

March 5 – Gender, Fisheries and Sustainability – Eddie Allison, Ph.D.

March 12 – Agriculture and Food Systems in West Africa  – Anna Petersons, farmer/peace corps volunteer 

 

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Elizabeth Wheat, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow
Program on the Environment
206.550.4622

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Due to the busy December that many on the Landscape Architechture Advisory Committee are encountering and some unforeseen conflicts, the Scan|Design Advisory Luncheon that was scheduled for TODAY is postponed. Please look out for an invitation after the new year for a meeting to discuss the Fellowships as well as the possibility of funding for faculty travel.