Wenting Sun

One of Wenting Sun's duties was to develop a Stonyfield Farm product packaging inventory which included the packaging material type and quantity of all their products.

Ryan Whisnant

Ryan Whisnant's internship this summer was through the Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Corps Fellowship, working as a Sustainability Analyst for SunGard, a $5B IT services company based in Wayne, PA.

Ashley Burtner

Ashley Burtner interned with The Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER).  This internship was one of many offered through CILER's Summer Fellowship program.

Amy Samples

Amy Samples interned with The Nature Conservancy.  The internship was dedicated to analyzing the impact of recent conservation efforts on conservation outcomes.

Nerissa Rujanavech

Nerissa Rujanavech interned with The Nature Conservancy Colorado and was responsible for the development of a conservation plan for a 1.3 million acre grassland in southeastern Colorado.

Rebecca Brooke

Rebecca Brooke interned with The Northern Forest Center in Portland, ME.

The starting objectives of this internship were to:   

1)    Provide a high-level overview of the present state of carbon markets and demand for offsets from small, private forest owners in New England;   

2)    Analyze existing models for engaging forest owners in markets for ecosystem services.    

3)    Assess how other models might be adapted to fit the social, political, institutional, and economic needs of New England forest owners; and    

In this internship, Amy Graul undertook the role of the Program Coordinator of the BRANCHES Summer Program. 

Lani Leuthvilay

Lani's Internship Summary:
For my internship, I worked at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London, England. Kew is a public organization dedicated to the conservation of wild plant and fungi species with research aimed at understanding the variety of plants and fungi worldwide.

Paul Gruber

Working with a small team in Gomez Palacio, Mexico, Paul Gruber helped form a team of local entrepreneurs, conducted sixteen business development workshops, and designed a water purification business plan.

Nicholas Parker came to the Wilderness Society to work on a project that dealt with potential losses in the value of ecosystem services in the Sierra Nevada due to global warming.  His principal tasks included researching the current state of the science on economic valuation of ecosystem goods and services, devising potential methods for downscaling an existing model of a few large “bioregions” across the U.S., and searching for databases that could prove useful to a downscaled model.  Nicholas worked independently, for the most part, with occasional communication with a small team o

Sarah Tomsky’s internship provided a wide variety of experiences relating to environmental policy and planning at the regional and national level.

Justin Heslinga

Justin L. Heslinga interned with the U.S. Geological Survey.

Jennifer Johnson conducted a commodity chain analysis on the local and regional trade in Uganda in Nile perch and tilapia. 

SNRE student interned witih the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. 

Erika Hasle worked with another intern to create a database of benches and trees within MBG and NA.