Internship Reports

Field of Study

Louisiana Bucket Brigade

Heather Morgan
Heather Morgan

Heather Morgan operated an air monitor running in a community on the fenceline with Chalmette Refining, Co.

Manlius Greenspace Coalition

Michael S. Jastremski interned with the Manlius Greenspace Coalition.

Maryland Department of Natural Resources

Michael Wagman
Michael Wagman

Michael Wagman preformed stream surveys sampling fish, crayfish, and herpetofauna of Maryland streams.  He also preformed GIS support for a variety of projects from developing future site locations to delineating watersheds from topo maps to making maps for several projects and reports.

Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Stacy Mates' internship was to co-coordinate Cultivating Community, which provides hands-on gardening and food system education for UM students.

McKinsey

Renata Amaral
Renata Amaral

In this internship Renata Amaral worked in a post merger management project of two financial institutions and she did organization re-design and found cost synergies.

Michigan Department of Agriculture

Rachel Chadderdon worked with the Michigan Department of Agriculture as a member of the FDA-funded Rapid Response Team (RRT).  The RRT's goal is to analyze the commodity food system in Michigan for opportunities to make food production and distribution safer.  Rachel worked with professionals at MDA and FDA to deliver needed background research and went on field research trips.  She also completed a set of county and region food system profiles designed to highlight the location of major food and agriculture industries in the state, working with representatives of several departments wit

Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Conservation programs targeted at private lands demand a great deal of effort at building relationships with landowners.  It can be a long process and not something well suited for a summer intern.  But, as an intern with Michigan’s Department of Resources, Landowner Incentive Program (LIP), Andrew Fotinos was fortunate to have the opportunity to ‘borrow’ the credibility of his supervisor and work with landowners with whom he had already established relationships. 

Michigan Tech Research Institute

Rebecca Gajewski
Rebecca Gajewski

In this internship, Becky Gajewski was responsible for completing a variety of environmental data analyses using GIS software, and she assisted in the collection of field data.

National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration

Bryan Sederberg
Bryan Sederberg

Bryan Sederberg accepted an internship that focused on Great Lakes Restoration.

National Park Service

Rebecca Brooke interned with the National Park Service.  The National Parks Business Plan Initiative (BPI) is a creative public/private partnership designed to promote the long-term health of our national parks through development of improved financial planning  and management tools.

National Wildlife Federation

Heath Nero
Heath Nero

Heath Nero interned with the National Wildlife Federation.

National Wildlife Federation

Natalie at a ACES Rally on Capital Hill
Natalie at a ACES Rally on Capital Hill

Natalie Flynn assisted in the creation of a new program to advocate for states to implement climate change into State Wildlife Action Plans.

National Wildlife Federation

Alexandria Teague interned with the National Wildlife Federation, Great Lakes Office.

Nestle Waters/Poland Spring (through Clean Air - Cool Planet Fellows Program)

At Poland Spring Bottling, a Nestle Waters North America company, Christina Bosch completed three projects.

Network for Environment and Sustainable Development - Central Africa

Bradley Kinder
Bradley Kinder

Brad Kinder's internship was designed to advance transparency, accountability, and equity in Cameroon’s forest tax revenue distribution system. This system was established to ensure rural communities benefit from the logging operations taking place in close proximity to their villages.