Jobs and Internships

For more information on the jobs below, and more, visit the Ohio Environmental Council.

Graduate Research Assistant [pdf] - M.S., Soil Ecology and Management at Department of Soil Science, North Carolina State University.

Procter & Gamble is looking to bring a PhD student into Cincinnati for a summer internship working on environmental toxicology. The job title is “Scientist in Thermal Analysis/Water Sorption/Water Activity”. It is in the analytical group in water sorption characterization—phase transitions, hydrate structure, solubility, water activity, etc. Contact:  Max Wingert, wingert.m@pg.com, 513.634.2832 (office)

The Akron Zoo is hiring a Director of Capital Projects & Sustainability in Akron.

Holden Arboretum/The Cleveland Botanical Gardens is hiring a Green Corps Youth Manager and Youth Leader in Cleveland.

First Solar is hiring a Global Product Manager - Solar Modules in Perrysburg.

Northwest Ohio Community Action Commission is hiring weatherization and energy efficiency Installers in Defiance.

Energy Systems Group is hiring a Business Development Manager - Sustainable Infrastructure in Columbus.

IGS Energy is hiring a Solar Sourcing Analyst in Columbus.

First Solar is hiring a Global Commodity Manager in Perrysburg.

Conservation Services Group is hiring a Senior Energy Advisor in Mansfield.

CB&I is hiring a Project Manager - Renewable Energy in Findlay.

Quasar is hiring a Development Analyst in Independence.

The Nature Conservancy is hiring a Climate and Energy Policy Associate in Dublin.

The National Parks Service has a Student Trainee (Administrative Support) Internship in Brecksville.

Tesla is hiring an Owner Advisor in Columbus.

Conservation Services Group is hiring an Energy Auditor in Columbus.

Gorman Heritage Farm is hiring six Sustainable Agriculture Interns in Cincinnati.

Third Sun Solar is hiring an Executive VP of Sales & Marketing in Columbus.

DNV Global Energy Concepts is hiring a Business Analyst in Columbus.

First Solar is hiring a Manufacturing Engineering Technician (Finishing) in Perrysburg.

Diebold is hiring a Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Intern in North Canton.

Tesla Motors is hiring a Service Manager in Columbus.

Booz Allen Hamilton is hiring a Senior Real Estate/Renewable Development Analyst in Washington Court House.

Seminars and Courses

Tracing biogenic oxidation chemistry in the atmosphere: Insights from the Southeastern US

By Dr. Delphine Farmer, Colorado State University, Department of Chemistry

Friday, February 20th, 2015, 3:00 p.m.

3150 Smith Lab, 174 W. 18th Ave

The atmosphere is an oxidizing environment in which organic molecules emitted by human activity and the natural environment are rapidly oxidized, either by fragmentation or functionalization processes. As molecules oxidize, their vapor pressures will change, potentially leading to formation and growth of particles in the atmosphere, which in turn affect the way in which sunlight interacts with the Earth's surface. Thus, understanding this oxidation chemistry - and how human activities are altering it - is essential for understanding the radiative balance and climate of the planet. Further, atmospheric oxidation chemistry leads to ozone formation, a key ingredient in smog. Both ozone and particles impact human health. In this talk, I will discuss new analytical approaches to measuring oxidized organic molecules in the atmosphere, and discuss recent measurements taken as part of the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study in Alabama (summer, 2013) and the Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Experiment in Colorado summer, 2014).

Delphine Farmer is an assistant professor of chemistry at Colorado State University. She received her Ph.D degree in chemistry from University of California-Berkeley in 2006.

Delinking International Environmental Law and Climate Change

By Dr. Cinnamon Carlarne,  The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Columbus, OH 43210

Friday, February 6, 2015, 3:00 p.m.

3150 Smith Lab, 174 W. 18th Ave

In this talk, I will explore the existing paradigm in international law that frames global efforts to address climate change as a problem of and for international environmental law. The most recent climate reports tell us that warming is unequivocal and that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change at the domestic level in the United States. Against this backdrop, much has been written recently in the United States about domestic efforts to address climate change. These efforts are important, but they leave open the question of how the global community can work together to address the greatest collective action problem of our time. Focusing on international efforts to address climate change, in this talk I will push back against the dominant framing of global climate change as a problem of and for international environmental law and argue that the static nature of the existing global paradigm brings about two primary harms. First, the failure to address climate change overshadows the larger field of international environmental law in a way that inhibits efforts to address a suite of persistent environmental problems beyond climate change. Second, framing climate change as a traditional environmental law problem constrains efforts to think more creatively about how to address a problem that defies classification as an environmental issue and demands innovative governance approaches.  In making the legal case for delinking the debates about international environmental law and global climate change, I argue that challenging the existing global paradigm is critical to thinking more constructively about collective action in the climate context.

Professor Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne is a leading expert in environmental law and climate change law and policy. Prior to joining the Moritz faculty, she was an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Carlarne’s scholarship focuses on the evolution of system of domestic and international environmental governance and includes a book on comparative climate change law and policy with Oxford University Press; a series of journal articles and book chapters exploring questions of domestic and international environmental law; and a forthcoming textbook on seas, society, and human well-being.

Miscellaneous

The State of America's Wildlife

Last night, President Obama gave his annual State of the Union address, and there is a word he has not uttered in any of these annual addresses to the American people:

Wildlife.

Despite a significant and growing legacy on reducing harmful pollution and protecting public lands, wildlife conservation demands greater attention. Simply put, the state of America’s wildlife is on shaky ground.

We are seeing growing evidence that wildlife is crying out for help.

Most alarming is a sudden collapse of crucial wildlife species, like pollinators that keep our food growing. Native bees and even monarch butterflies are in steep decline. All signs point to habitat loss, pesticides and climate change…things we can and must act on now.

Fewer hard freezes are contributing to exploding tick and mosquito populations that are weakening and killing iconic species like moose. Wildlife diseases transmitted by non-native or domesticated animals threaten populations ranging from bighorn sheep to native fish.

There’s too much at stake to stay silent.

We have hope to build upon.

Wildlife enjoys broad bipartisan public support and there are many indicators that we may be on the verge of a conservation renaissance.

Last year, the federal farm bill contained conservation measures that represented a huge step forward in protecting our lands and wildlife. Protections for a million acres of watersheds and wildlife habitat on public lands were included in the Defense Reauthorization Act.

In November, conservation victories led by NWF’s state affiliates in Florida, New Jersey and Louisiana point the way toward an electorate willing to defend wildlife. Nationwide, voters in blue and red states approved nearly $30 billion in dedicated conservation funding.

This is the legacy President Obama should build on.

Together, we can put America’s wildlife back on solid ground.

THIS IS IT: Save caribou. Stop Keystone!

This is it. The battle to defeat the Keystone XL pipeline has come to a head.

Congressional leaders have launched an all-out blitz to approve the dirty oil project—and by all accounts the votes are there to do it! Our last best hope for protecting threatened wildlife like caribou, and stopping this reckless project, is a veto and rejection from President Obama.

Leave no doubt in the President’s mind—Keystone spells disaster for countless wildlife and our environment. It must be rejected once and for all.

If built, Keystone would trigger a massive expansion of tar sands oil production in Canada, decimating at-risk herds of woodland caribou.

Tar sands mining has already destroyed huge swaths of the woodland caribou’s historic habitat. Today, these amazing creatures remain only in the northern boreal forest. Without improved efforts to save their little remaining habitat, local caribou herds face extinction.

In the United States, Keystone would gush an unimaginable 830,000 barrels of toxic tar sands oil through the delicate habitats of sage grouse, sandhill cranes, walleye fisheries and more, every single day.

There’s no doubt this pipeline will break. Somewhere. Some day.

In 2010, a pipeline rupture sent over a million gallons of tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River system, poisoning people and wildlife for miles around. The disaster showed just how grossly unprepared the industry and our governments are when it comes to handling toxic spills.

President Obama must hear our “NO Keystone XL” message…loud, clear, and NOW!

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