Other jobs, internships, awards, and funding resources
Awards and Funding Opportunities, (31 total)
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Internship Resources
- Monterey Bay Internships—A resource that helps ease the transition for young adults from higher education to the workforce. Employers can take advantage of the talent groomed here at home. Students receive the training necessary to meet the employment needs of our local business community. Together we can help our region thrive.
- THESCA.ORG—Student Conservation Association: Over 1000 internships for students and graduates. They usually provide housing and a stipend. Good place to start if you have just graduated and need more experience.
- Idealist—Local, national, and international jobs, internships, and chat room
- Coolworks—National internship directory
- Work for Good—Non-profit job board
- GoAbroad—Comprehensive on-line source for study abroad, language schools, overseas internships, international volunteer and teaching positions
Job Resources
- UCSC Career Center—Job counseling, job and graduate school fairs, on-campus interviews
- ZipRecruiter—A free career resource dedicated to helping jobseekers find meaningful employment
- Social Work, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice— A guide to support future social workers as they prepare for a career working on environmentally-related issues
Online Job Boards
General
- AmeriCorps
- Eco Employ
- Environmental Career Opportunities—Hundreds of job vacancies in environmental policy, conservation, education, engineering and internships in all sectors
- Environmental Career Page
- Green Dream Jobs—Jobs within sustainable businesses and organizations
- JuJu
- List of Green Job Boards
- Monster
- National Science Foundation
- Nature Careers
- Oneworld.org—Jobs in sustainable development, environment and human rights worldwide
- OutdoorIndustryJobs.com
- Science Societies Career Center
- Talent
- The Science Jobs
- Trovit
- World.edu
Abroad
- ENDS—Environmental Data Services Ltd. (Europe)
- Melbourne Environmental Jobs Network—(Australia)
Agroecology
- Eco-Farm
- WWOOF—Worldwide Opportunities in Organic Farming: International agricultural work-trade opportunities
Alternative Energy
- Earthworks—Jobs in oil, mining, geoscience, environmental, GIS and related subjects
Biology
- Career Edu
- Organization of Biological Field Stations
- Plantae—American Society of Plant Biologists job board
- SICB—Society for Integratve & Comparative Biology
Business
- Eviron Business—Green industries job board
- Novoresume
Climate Change
- DISC—Dissertations initiative for the advancement of Climate Change Research
- ISSD—The International Institute for Sustainable Development
Conservation
- Avian-related jobs—Maintained by Ornithological Societies of America
- Career and Educational Opportunities in Ecology, Conservation & other Environmental Sciences
- Conservation Job Board
- Cyber-Sierra's Natural Resources Job Search—Employment websites arranged by category: forestry, water resources, GIS, etc
- Ecological Society of America—Web page on grad school and ecological career advice
- Forestry Jobs in America
- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)—Current vacancies at IUCN and closely-related organisations
- Land Trust Alliance
- Pherkad Wildlife Job Search
- Rangeland Ecology
- Texas A&M Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Job Board
- Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources
- Wildlife Society Career Center
Development & Engineering
- DevNetJobs.org—International development jobs in UN institutions, aid agencies, international NGOs, as well as multilateral, financial, academic and research institutions
- Professional Outlook Inc
Environmental Education
- AEOE—Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education: job board
- North Carolina Office of Environmental Education
- OutdoorEd.com—Summer camp and outdoor ed jobs in the United States.
GIS
Water & Marine
- American Fisheries Society
- American Society of Limnology & Oceanography
- Society of Wetlands Scientists
- Water & Wastewater Jobs—Database of jobs in water and wastewater treatment
- Water Jobs Now
- Western Organization of Resource Councils—Openings in land management in the Western US
Short-Term
- Peace Corps—Improving health and nutrition abroad at the grassroots level. Educational efforts include outreach, awareness, and prevention programs for public health, hygiene, and sanitation
- Short Term Job Adventures—Adventurous jobs, internships, seasonal work, volunteer vacations, and work abroad
- Workamper—Jobs for RV'ers
Environmental Government Agencies
Federal
- National Park Service
- U.S. Forest Service
- U.S. Geological Survey
- USA Jobs—directory of federal government jobs
State
- California Air Resources Board
- California Conservation Corps
- California Department of Conservation
- California Department of Fish and Game
- California Department of Pesticide Regulation
- California Department of Water Resources
- California Integrated Waste Management Board
- California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
- California State Personnel Board—directory of CA government jobs
- California State Water Resources Control Board
Local
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