Winter 2025: New Internships!
Santa Cruz County Mosquito & Vector Control
Agency Sponsor: Amanda Poulsen, pesthelp@santacruzcountyca.gov
# of Interns: Sponsoring two ENVS 84 interns Winter 2025. If you are interested email Amanda by Friday, December 13th. Virtual interviews will be held on Monday, December 16th. This is an unpaid internship.
Agency Description: Santa Cruz County Mosquito & Vector Control is committed to protecting public health from vectors of human disease. Vectors are pests capable of transmitting disease, causing harm, or creating a nuisance. Our services, consultation, and education enable residents to resolve problems and protect themselves with a better understanding of vector biology, behavior, and vector-borne diseases.
Intern Responsibilities: Intern will assist primarily with field work, and minimal lab work, involving county-wide tick collections for Lyme Disease surveillance. Intern will spend most of their time "Tick Flagging" which involves hiking trails within Santa Cruz County while running a flannel flag over vegetation and collecting ticks that attach themselves. The collected ticks will then be sorted and processed in the lab and data recorded in VectorSurv by the intern.
Location: 640 Capitola Rd. Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Requirements: Must have valid Driver's License and your own vehicle to transport you to tick flag sites around Santa Cruz County.
Campus Food and Garden Guide by the Center of Agroecology
Agency Sponsor: Francis Ge, fmge@ucsc.edu
# of Interns: Sponsoring one ENVS 84 intern Winter 2025. This is an unpaid internship.
Agency Description: The Food Systems Working Group encompasses a set of student co-led programs at the Center for Agroecology, including producing an annual Campus Food and Garden Guide to introduce students to campus and community food systems.
Intern Responsibilities: We're a student-produced annual magazine looking for an intern to assist in all aspects of research, outreach, compiling, writing, editing, and design. Tasks may include: reaching out to campus and community organizations to get updated contact and job/internship opportunities, interviewing students working in food systems, compiling information about agroecology-related courses, writing a column/opinion/feature article about an aspect of food systems you care about, helping choose a design theme and run a cover art contest.
Preferred Qualities: Interested in food systems and agroecology, likes working on a team, can complete self-directed tasks on time, strong writer, familiarity with google docs & google sheets, and interested in or proficient in art/design.
Location: Cowell Ranch Hay Barn + Hybrid/Remote Work
