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Resources related to careers in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service has many openings for Soil Conservation Technician and Soil Conservationist, several of them in Illinois.

Big Island Farms offers internships (for which the student pays) on an organic permaculture farm in Hawaii.

Internships for U of I students working with EPA personnel in lakes and streams collecting water quality samples, sampling macroinvertebrates, macrophytes, and fish, and recording discharge and assessing habitat. Internships are based in the IEPA Bureau of Water - Northern Monitoring Unit in Des Plaines, IL.

Internships for U of I students working with EPA personnel in lakes and streams collecting water quality samples, sampling macroinvertebrates, macrophytes, and fish, and recording discharge and assessing habitat. Internships are based in the IEPA Bureau of Water - Northern Monitoring Unit in Des Plaines, IL.

Internships for U of I students working with EPA personnel in lakes and streams collecting water quality samples, sampling macroinvertebrates, macrophytes, and fish, and recording discharge and assessing habitat. Internships are based in the IEPA Bureau of Water - Northern Monitoring Unit in Des Plaines, IL.

Internships for U of I students working with EPA personnel in lakes and streams collecting water quality samples, sampling macroinvertebrates, macrophytes, and fish, and recording discharge and assessing habitat. Internships are based in the IEPA Bureau of Water - Northern Monitoring Unit in Des Plaines, IL.

2017-2018 internship opportunity in Cairo, Egypt.

HLR is currently seeking a Permanent Seasonal Restoration Crew Leader to join our Environmental Department. This highly motivated individual will work on a variety of sites (prairies, woodlands, wetlands, and/or lakes) and be knowledgable in native plants, invasive species, and herbicides. The position would be based out of our Elgin, Illinois office. Full description at http://www.hlrengineering.com/careers/permanent-seasonal-restoration-crew-leader/. 

The Science Communication Coordinator (IWRC and IISG) serves as a regular, full time, 12 month academic professional. Illinois Water Resources Center (IWRC) is co-administered with Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG), and this position will share duties between these organizations. This position will manage communication programming for the IWRC research and outreach programs. This position will also participate in the IISG communication team based on skills and experience. Focus areas may include: drinking water, water quality, private wells, storm water management, and other areas related to IWRC and IISG research and outreach programming. Communication mechanisms include print, web, social media, and video. Coordination of timelines, personnel, and competing projects will also be required. Some travel may be required. Full description at https://jobs.illinois.edu/academic-job-board/job-details?jobID=73111.

This permanent, full-time Fish Biologist position is located with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 3 at the Carterville Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office in Wilmington, IL. Incumbent will work on Asian carp management and control efforts in the Chicago Area Waterways and the upper Illinois River to help prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes.  Innovative sonar work in and around the Electric Dispersal Barrier will be conducted as will sampling using nets and electrofishing.  Incumbent will use teamwork, creativity, and partnering skills to help solve complex and evolving problems. Full listing at https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/456978000/. 

HLR is looking for energetic individuals with an ecology background to work in our Environmental Department for the summer. Work includes learning native plant identification, herbicide application, and mechanical control of wetlands, prairies, lakes. Interns must be able to work at least 3 months (May-August), start and end dates are flexible with university schedules. Position would be based out of our Elgin, Illinois office. Full description at http://www.hlrengineering.com/careers/restoration-summer-intern/.

USAJOBS - Job Announcement 

You too can make a difference in our world.  The work of the US Fish and Wildlife Service is meaningful and varied.  Want to know more about what it is like to work for us?  Click here to watch short podcasts entitled Meet Your New Boss! and Diversity is our Strength

This vacancy announcement is part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Hiring Initiative to fill professional biological science/natural resource management positions at the GS-05, 07, 09 and 11 grade levels. One or more positions may be filled at various locations.

YOU MUST APPLY FOR ALL OF THE DUTY STATIONS FOR WHICH YOU ARE INTERESTED.

Students who will complete the requirements for their degree by December 31, 2016, may apply to the national recruitment vacancy announcements.

State of Wisconsin Government Jobs - Job Announcement

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has a rewarding and challenging position available as a Bureau Director of Wildlife Management.  This is a high profile and critical role within the wildlife program that will provide strategic direction and leadership of bureau staff. This position works from the DNR Central Office, 101 S. Webster Street, Madison, WI and will travel throughout the state, as needed.

Please see below for a number of great positions.  The links will take you to our Forest Service Outreach Database for more information on each job including contact information for the hiring manager, job duties, etc.

Unless otherwise noted, these jobs are being outreached only and are not yet advertised in USAjobs at www.usajobs.gov.  Please contact the hiring manager found at each positions weblink given below to be notified when position will be advertised.

The Udall Scholarship awards $7,000 to sophomores or juniors committed to a career related to the environment *OR* to Native American sophomores or juniors interested in tribal policy or health care. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or U.S. permanent residents.

Technicians are needed for a project investigating stopover duration and habitat use of spring migrating Mallards in the Wabash River region of southeastern Illinois and southwestern Indiana. Duties include, but are not limited to: baiting and deploying duck capture traps, rocket netting, taking metrics and banding ducks, deploying radio transmitters, using radio telemetry to track and monitor ducks, equipment maintenance, and data management. Work will involve early mornings (e.g., 4 am departures), long days in the field, and a variable work schedule. Field vehicle and housing provided and overtime is authorized

This is an advanced announcement that applications for the Centers for Disease Control Environmental Health Internships will be available by November 20th:

Graduate Environmental Health Internships (GEH): Graduate student, not graduating by summer of program

Collegiate Leaders in Environmental Health (CLEH): Undergraduate student, not graduating by summer of program

Summer Program in Environmental Health (SUPEH): Undergraduate or Graduate student in an EHAC accredited school, not graduating by summer of program

Application Dates:

All applications will open after November 20, 2016 CLEH applications close January 27, 2017 GEH and SUPEH applications close February 3, 2017 All applicants will be notified of acceptance after March 3, 2017

Summer Internship Dates:

The internship will start June 5, 2017
The internship will end August 4, 2017

Anyone interested in a career in law is invited to this pre-law panel hosted by the History Department and Prof. Rabin’s Career Planning for History Majors course.

Monday, Nov. 7 3-4:30 pm 223 Greg Hall

Career Center Pizza and Professionals Lunch Series presents

Working with Animals

Friday, November 4th

12:00-1:00 pm

The Career Center Interview Suite (Room 213)

The Udall Foundation awards scholarships to college sophomores and juniors for leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to Native American nations or to the environment.

In 2017, the Udall Foundation anticipates awarding 60 scholarships of up to $7,000 each.

The Udall scholarship honors the legacies of Morris Udall and Stewart Udall, whose careers had a significant impact on Native American self-governance, health care, and the stewardship of public lands and natural resources.

The Department of Natural Resources, Monitoring and Non-Tidal Assessment Division, is currently accepting applications for Natural Resources Biologist II positions. These positions are located in our Annapolis, MD office. The selected candidates will participate in the planning and implementation of freshwater stream ecological assessments and will serve as a member of a field crew responsible for the collection of data on fishes, benthic macroinvertebrates, herpetofauna, crayfishes, freshwater mussels, physical habitat, water quality, and land use in non-tidal streams and rivers as part of the Maryland Biological Stream Survey. General duties for all three positions will include field data collections, data analysis and interpretation, and reporting related to the status and distribution of Maryland's aquatic resources.

The Midwest Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (MAFWA) is seeking a contractor to provide technical coordination and plan-writing services to assist MAFWA’s member states, plus Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and other interested states with Monarch Conservation efforts. The successful candidate will be an independent contractor to MAFWA, eligible for monthly payments for work performed and for approved travel reimbursement; the position will not be eligible for benefits. To allow for better partnership and communication with the member states, the successful contractor will be provided office space in a state fish and wildlife office, ideally within the region (potential locations include Des Moines, IA; Lansing, MI,; etc.) but location negotiable, and provided with office equipment and support from that state.

We are seeking a PhD student to work on a multidisciplinary project investigating the long-term carbon and nutrient dynamics following clearcut harvesting a red spruce – balsam fir forest in northern Maine.  This project has high relevance to sustainable forest management and renewable energy priorities in the modern forest sector for this region. The overall research project involves: quantifying trends in ecosystem carbon and nutrient pools 35 years after clear-cutting the balsam fir-red spruce forest at Weymouth Point paired-watershed study area; comparing 35-year ecosystem carbon pool dynamics with carbon dynamics predicted by an IPCC-relevant forest carbon budget model (e.g. CBM-CFS3); and informing development of criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management (SFM) in forest policy and certification systems adopted for balsam fir – red spruce forests in northern New England. A start date of July 2017 is possible to initiate field work prior to doctoral program enrolment in September 2017.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Noon-4:00 pm
Illini Union, Rooms A, B, & C

Speak with universities from across the country about graduate and professional school programs, including health profession programs!

Get a sneak peek at schools who are attending the fair: https://www.careercenter.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/GNP_School_Listing_Book_2.pdf

The scientist is a Research Biologist in the Southern Research Station’s Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (SRS-4854). The mission of the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) is to generate knowledge and tools needed to anticipate and respond to environmental threats. The most serious threats to forests and the benefits they provide inevitably involve complex factors interacting across multiple spatial and temporal scales. The Center’s challenge is to maintain a comprehensive and integrated research program to tackle these complex issues, while delivering knowledge to forest landowners, managers, decision-makers, scientists, and other interested audiences in a timely, useful, and user-friendly manner.

The University of California Merced invites applications for an open rank faculty position in stable isotope (bio)geochemistry or ecology. Successful candidates should have a record of accomplishment including a productive and nationally/internationally visible research program in stable isotope (bio)geochemistry or ecology. We will consider candidates in a broad range of research areas, including but not limited to: geosciences, biological sciences, and chemistry. We particularly welcome candidates with established records in stable isotope research and development of applications that have led to significant scientific advancements across a range of environmental science disciplines.

This is a full-time, entry level public works Forestry Worker I position involving on-the-job training to perform a variety of unskilled and semi-skilled forestry work, and operate a variety of equipment within the Public Works Agency.

This outreach is an early alert to inform potential applicants that the USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area, State and Private Forestry will soon be advertising a permanent, full-time GS-0414 (Entomologist) or 0434 (Pathologist) -13 Group Leader, Forest Health position. The position is located at the St. Paul Field Office in St. Paul, MN.  If you are interested in this position please respond, since the responses to this outreach notice will help managers decide how to advertise this position. 

The scientist is a Research Biologist in the Southern Research Station’s Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (SRS-4854). The mission of the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) is to generate knowledge and tools needed to anticipate and respond to environmental threats. The most serious threats to forests and the benefits they provide inevitably involve complex factors interacting across multiple spatial and temporal scales. The Center’s challenge is to maintain a comprehensive and integrated research program to tackle these complex issues, while delivering knowledge to forest landowners, managers, decision-makers, scientists, and other interested audiences in a timely, useful, and user-friendly manner.

The U.S. Forest Service will conduct a Student and Recent Graduate Hiring Event at the 2016 Society of American Foresters Convention, held November 2-6 in Madison, Wisconsin.  Over 140 Pathways Student Intern and Recent Graduate positions will be available at the event. Many of these positions are for foresters, forestry technicians, natural resource managers, or biological technicians. In addition, a few of the positions will be for fisheries and wildlife biologists, and GIS technicians.  On-site applications will be accepted at the Society of American Foresters (SAF) Convention in Madison, Wisconsin, from 2 p.m. to 7p.m. on November 2nd, and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on November 3rd.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) Biologist Program Specialist is responsible for the management and life processes of fish, wildlife, and their habitats; collecting and analyzing biological data; and, specializing in fish and wildlife research, management, husbandry, and/or habitat management. This position is governed by state and federal laws and agency policy.