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Summer Programs - Environmental Science, Sustainability

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Summer Programs - Environmental Science, Sustainability

 

College of the Atlantic's Farm to Fork program - http://www.coa.edu/farmtofork.htm

"Housed at College of the Atlantic's oceanfront Bar Harbor campus, students will spend each day exploring the local food systems around Mount Desert Island. Most mornings will begin with either livestock chores on COA's Peggy Rockefeller Farms, where we grow pastured poultry and rotationally graze our flock of sheep, or helping to harvest and pack produce for daily markets at COA's Beech Hill Farm. Afternoons, students will take field trips to local farms and food producers where they will study the details of producing a range of food products, from an organic dairy, to a diversified farm using draft horses, to a sustainable fishery. This immersion into the Maine farm and food community, complete with shared meals, will help students understand the interconnections of the varied parts." 

 

Drexel's Environmental Science Leadership Academyhttp://www.drexel.edu/bees/summerscience/

"Drexel's weeklong Environmental Science Leadership Academy is one part adventure travel, one part leadership training, and two parts environmental science field experience. Students will habitat-hop from seaside, to salt marsh, to maritime forest, all along the New Jersey coastline, gaining hands-on experience in a range of research areas, including beach, marsh and Pine Barren ecology, botany and paleontology. The "tour guides" on this adventure will be all-star Drexel professors and expert scientists from the nation’s oldest natural history museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences. Students will gain a broad understanding of what it means to be an environmental scientist and what it takes to be a leader in the field.

 

Based at the Barnegat Bay Field Station in Ocean Township, NJ, the Environmental Science Leadership Academy opens with a canoe trip through the Pine Barrens and ends with a fossil dig with Drexel paleontologist Dr. Ken Lacovara, whose world-class Mantua dig site has been featured on the Discovery Channel. Through a combination of theory-based courses and a lot of hands-on experience—the heart of a Drexel education—students will bond together through a research-rich summer adventure that will open the door to a future in environmental science and related fields."

 

Georgetown Environmental Science Institute - http://scs.georgetown.edu/departments/21/summer-programs-for-high-school-students/media.cfm?eid=444

 

Hotchkiss Program in Environmental Science - http://www.hotchkiss.org/Summer/Summ_Environmen.aspx

"The Hotchkiss Summer Environmental Science (SES) program cultivates in its students a knowledge of environmental science, provides an immersion in the natural world, and encourages them to become stewards of those resources on a local, regional, national, and global level."

 

Sewanee Environmental Institute Pre-college Field Studies Experience - http://sei.sewanee.edu/programs/precollege

"SEI’s Pre-College Field Studies Experience is

•             designed for students who are passionate about the outdoors

•             for those that want to advance their knowledge and skills in the study of the environment

•             held on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee 

•             for rising high school juniors and seniors with a history of academic success

 

Students will have the opportunity to explore Sewanee's ecologically diverse 13,000-acre campus under the guidance of faculty members who are passionate about environmental education. This program provides an interdisciplinary introduction to environmental studies."

 

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Internship Programhttp://www.serc.si.edu/pro_training/internships/internships.aspx

"The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's (SERC) Internship Program offers undergraduate and  beginning graduate students a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the fields of environmental research and education. This program enables students to work on specific projects under the direction of SERC's professional staff and is tailored to provide the maximum educational benefit to each participant."

 

Sterling College's Sustainable Agriculture Program - http://www.sterlingcollege.edu/summer-ag.html

"The Summer Sustainable Agriculture Program, part of Sterling's Summer Semester, is an intensive, on-farm practicum experience in which students to learn to 'think and make decisions like farmers.'  Supported by our highly diverse farm, students have the opportunity to learn vegetable crop production and management as well as livestock management.  Our draft horse team enables students to learn the principles of “live power” – draft horse management and also hands on experience with driving the team in our fields.  Students spend each day working on our farm and learning how to make daily and weekly management decisions.  The program is a mixture of on-farm experience as well as classroom coursework in organic vegetable production, livestock management systems, agriculture power, farmstead arts, and permaculture."

 

Student Climate and Conservation Congress (SC3) - http://www.greenschoolsalliance.org/students/student-climate-conservation-congress-sc3

"The mission of the Student Climate & Conservation Congress (Sc3) is to empower outstanding student environmental leaders with the skills, knowledge, and tools necessary to address natural resource conservation challenges and better serve their schools and communities."

 

One week program just outside of DC, applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

 

Teen Research and Education in Environmental Science (TREES) - http://www.med.upenn.edu/ceet/TREES.shtml

  • Students must have completed grade 9, 10, or 11 by the summer.
  • There is no tuition or fees for the program.
  • GPA at least 3.0/4.0.
  • Parental consent required
  • Students must live in Philadelphia or the surrounding area.
  • TREES is a day program, not residential; housing is not provided by the program and students must arrange transportation to campus daily.
  • Candidates from underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

Wildlife Ecology Research at the Huyck Preserve (NY) - http://www.huyckpreserve.org/wer/index.html

"Wildlife Ecology Research is an intensive 3 week program where rising juniors and seniors learn basic ecological principles through hands-on research experience. Ecologist from colleges and universities around the country instruct students on population, community, physiological, disease and behavioral ecology using a diverse array of wildlife and standard research techniques. Wildlife Ecology Research culminates in rigorous small group research projects where students develop and implement research projects from hypothesis to final paper. This program aims to provide a significant academic experience that will help students prepare for courses and research experiences at the college level."

 

WWOOF-USA® - *Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms* - www.wwoofusa.org/
"Visitors, or 'WWOOFers' live and work on the farm, learn about the organic movement and sustainable agriculture, and receive room and board - with no
money exchanged between hosts and WWOOFers.   WWOOF is an educational and cultural exchange program. WWOOFing is a way to learn practical farming
skills, be part of the organic agriculture movement, and experience the heart of American agrarian culture."

 

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