Agency Sponsor: Jodi MCGraw, jodi@jodimcgrawconsulting.com
If interested, email agency sponsor. A stipend is provided to offset travel costs. $300 for 2-unit and $600 for 5-units students.
# of Interns:
- Fall 2025: Sponsoring 2-6 interns enrolling in ENVS 84, 83, 183 and 183A/183B.
- Winter 2026: Sponsoring 2-6 interns enrolling in ENVS 84, 83, 183 and 183A/183B.
- Spring 2026: Sponsoring 2-6 interns enrolling in ENVS 84, 83, 183, 183A or 183B.
- Summer 2026: Sponsoring 2-6 interns enrolling in ENVS 84
Agency Description:
Jodi McGraw Consulting (JMc) is implementing a series of conservation and restoration projects, including work to restore the Santa Cruz Sandhills and coastal prairie habitat. The work done by interns is part of a longer-term restoration efforts designed to restore sensitive plant communities and populations of rare and endangered species.
Intern Responsibilities:
JMc Restoration interns gain experience in the following aspects of conservation and restoration, with the precise activities depending on the season (i.e., quarter) of participation:
- Native plant propagation, including seed collection, cleaning, and growing;
- Native plant installation and maintenance, including weeding, pruning, and irrigation;
- Exotic plant identification and control strategies;
- Rare plant identification and monitoring, including mapping;
- Endangered insect surveys; and
- Monitoring of experimental trials to promote endangered plants and insects and restore degraded habitat.
Other Requirements:
Interns will need a vehicle or arrange a carpool with other interns in order to access sites that are not located near the bus line.
Intern Shifts:
No specific shifts.
Location:
Field work occurs at a variety of sandhills habitat sites in and around Felton and Ben Lomond and in Moss Beach and Pebble Beach, California. A car or carpool is necessary to participate in this internship.
Key Words: Biodiversity Conservation, Ecology/Natural History, Geographic Information System, Insects/Wildlife, Plants/Restoration
