Elizabeth Nysson, a second-year master's student at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment, has received a financial award from Safari Club International Michigan Involvement Committee (SCI MIC) for her work on pronghorn migration.
Nysson received the 2008 Joseph G. Schotthoefer Memorial Student Award for research on the antelope-like animal, which is native to the western United States.
Heath Nero interned with the National Wildlife Federation.
As an intern for Greenbelt Alliance, Kristen Johnson facilitated the Green Vision Groupí¢â‚¬â„¢s efforts to conserve open space in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.
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 Michiganí¢â‚¬â„¢s Department of Resources, Landowner Incentive Program (LIP), Andrew Fotinos was fortunate to have the opportunity to í¢â‚¬Ëœborrowí¢â‚¬â„¢ the credibility of his supervisor and work with landowners with whom he had already established relationships.
During the summer of 2008 Diane Sherman interned at CLF Ventures, a unique environmental non-profit organization that offers consulting services and is affiliated with the New England-based Conservation Law Foundation.
In this internship, Tingting Liu learned how government regulates environment problems. At the same time, she learned how the EPA builds connections with private companies.
Through Lauren Pidot's Weinberg Fellowship, she was able to spend the summer working with two Belize-based NGOs focused on ecosystem-based management of coastal resources.
Annie Barton worked at BHPB's emissions trading desk working on CDM project origination and emission reduction opportunities for global mining assets.
Julia Koslow performed life cycle assessment of new building in Wuhan, China.