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Alumni Office Room 1W7 Chris LaCarrubba - Internship Coordinator [email protected] Isaac B. Honor – Internship Coordinator Assistant

INTERNSHIP NOTICE #27

Important Note: If you are selected for the internship, please inform Mr. Honor IMMEDIATELY via email at:

[email protected]

Forest Project Summer Collaborative

Learn & Earn Spend an unforgettable summer working as part of a small crew protecting and improving Wave Hill’s

woodlands, enjoying the outdoors and making friends. Take a free, college-level course in

environmental science or basic mapping at CUNY’s Lehman College and earn credit.

June 26–August 15, 2014 • Mondays through Fridays, 9am–4pm

• College coursework is unpaid and takes place one day per week.

• Application deadline: March 23, 2014

Qualifications • Currently enrolled in the 10th, 11th or 12th grade

• Interested in the urban environment

• Strong academic record, especially in the sciences

• Ready for rigorous fieldwork and academic study

Wages • First-year interns earn $8.00/hr

• Second-year interns earn $8.25/hr




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Program Description The Forest Project is one of Wave Hill’s signature programs. With more than 32 years of experience,

Wave Hill offers a robust summer internship program for high school students that enables them to

earn money while working to restore Wave Hill’s natural woodlands. The Forest Project gives students

an unparalleled opportunity to learn about ecology in an urban setting, gain hands-on field experience

and enroll in a tuition-free, college-level course at Lehman College. Throughout the summer, guest

speakers, field trips and special projects contribute to an immersive and profoundly rewarding

experience.

For seven weeks beginning in late June, Forest Project interns work together in small crews under the

direction of an experienced crew leader. Together, each crew engages in restoration work in its

assigned area. The work is demanding but rewarding—building woodland paths, removing invasive

plant species, shoring up erosion controls and helping to restore disturbed woodlands to a more

balanced state. Team-building activities build a strong, even passionate, sense of community and

connection both to fellow interns and to the collective mission.

Field Work

Field work is performed on the Wave Hill grounds and consists of trail maintenance, erosion control,

invasive removal and planting and taking care of native plants. Students are broken up into crews of

six to seven people. Each crew is led by a crew leader and works at an assigned worksite for the

duration of the summer.

LEARN MORE ABOUT FIELD WORK FOR THE FOREST PROJECT SUMMER COLLABORATIVE (PDF)

Lehman College Course Work

First-year interns take an environmental science course at Lehman College; second-year interns take a

GIS Course. The coursework enhances the field work, and both are integrated to create a meaningful

learning experience. Each is three credits and takes place 1 day a week. The courses are held on

different days of the week, giving each class one day a week onsite while the other class is at Lehman.

During this time, student’s work on group course projects, involving data collection and field research

about their worksites. These projects make up a significant portion of the students’ final grade for

whichever Lehman course they take.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION COURSE (PDF)

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS COURSE (PDF)




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Field Trips and Guest Speakers

Field trips and guest speakers provide interns with an opportunity to meet a wide range of

professionals with green careers. Recent guest speakers have included landscape architects, forest

research technicians, environmental journalists and authors and urban planners. Recent field trips

have included Pelham Bay Park, canoeing on the Bronx River, Boswyck Farm and Gowanus Canal

Conservancy. Field trips usually combine a work project with a tour or guided activity led by an onsite

expert.

LEARN MORE ABOUT FOREST PROJECTIVE SUMMER COLLABORATIVE FIELD TRIPS (PDF)

Online application

https://forestproject.wufoo.com/forms/2014-application-for-new-students/

Additional information about the program provided below…




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Wave Hill Woodland Ecology Research Mentorship

Environmental Conservation Course

College Course:

Environmental Conservation

Course Overview This course covers issues pertaining to conserving our natural resources and examines the human impact on key elements of our environmental systems.

• Meets at Lehman College once a week

• Each session is about 3-4 hours long and includes breaks

• Most sessions are followed by review and group work sessions in the Lehman library

What to expect from the course

• Students complete hands-on final project focused on restoration ecology

• Students spend time each week working on data collection in Wave Hill’s woodlands

• Students use this data for a final project that includes a group paper/poster and a presentation


Excerpt from last summer’s syllabus: Class Schedule • July 3, TUE, 9:30am‒Noon

– Reading: Chapter 1

– Lecture theme: Introduction to Environmental Conservation, Scientific Methodology, and Scientific Literacy

– Activity: Sampling Populations

• July 8, MON , 9:30am‒1pm – Reading: Chapters 3 and 4, Article 1

– Lecture theme: Lessons from Ecology, Populations and Communities *Quiz

– Activity: Estimating Population Size: Mark and Recapture

– Assignment: Article Collection

• July 15, MON, 9:30am‒1pm – Reading: Chapters 5, 6 and 7, Article 2

– Lecture theme: Biodiversity and the Tragedy of the Common *Quiz 2

– Activity: Oil Consumption and Future Availability

– Assignment: Literature Review Due Jul 22

Topics Covered

Topics Covered • Data Collection

Students collect data in Wave Hill’s woodlands using methods developed by local scientists working with the Natural Areas Conservancy, the U.S. Forest Service and NYC Parks Department.

• Data Literacy Students are taught to analyze their data. A special focus is placed on helping students interpret their findings and present them using appropriate graphs and tables.

Excerpts From Students’ Final Projects

Wave Hill Forest Project Summer Collaborative

Field Trips

Field trips usually combine a work project with a tour or guided activity led by an onsite expert.

Restoration project with the Bronx River Alliance was followed by excellent canoe ride down the Bronx River.

Learning about hydroponics at Boswyck Farms and then making our own hydroponic herb planters to take home.

Helping the Gowanus Canal Conservancy with composting, removing invasive species and debris clean-up at the Salt Lot.

Learning about Urban Farming at Eagle Street Rooftop Farm.

Our annual end-of-summer

trip to Pelham Bay Park: Field work, a barbecue and finally a scenic hike.

A perfect way to end the summer!

Wave Hill Forest Project Summer Collaborative

Field Work

Work Crews and Work Sites

Field work is performed on Wave Hill’s grounds and consists of trail maintenance, erosion control, invasive removal and planting and caring for native plants.

Interns are divided into crews of six to seven. Each crew is led by a crew leader and works at an assigned worksite for the duration of the summer.

On the right is a map of the 2012 worksites. Interns develop an in-depth understanding of their particular site and the problems it faces. They learn the long-term restoration strategy of each site, and are taught about the changes that have taken place over time.

Invasive Removal

Trail Work and Erosion Control

Caring for Native Trees and Shrubs

Water Break after Some Hard Work

Wave Hill Woodland Ecology Research Mentorship

Geographic Information Systems Course

College Course: Introduction to the Principles of Geographic Information Science (GISc)

What is GIS? GIS is a tool that can be used organize, display, analyze and present geographic information.

GIS organizes real-world features into data files known as layers.

What is GIS?

Layers can be composed of features like trees, U.S. states, rivers, cities and roads.

What is GIS? Each layer has its own

attribute table, where data about each individual feature are stored.

Attribute tables contain data, such as state population, tree height and land-cover type.


• Course meets at Lehman College once a week

• Class time is divided between lecture and lab time

• Each class session will be about 5‒6 hours long, including a long lunch break as well as several shorter breaks


• Students spend an additional day each week working on a data collection project in Wave Hill’s woodlands.

• Class time is divided between lecture and lab time

• Students use this data to create maps as part of a

final course project.


Topics covered during lab and lecture:

• Basic map-making

• Data management

• Using different types of maps and data

• Using online maps and GIS

• Using GIS to solve environmental issues

• Map design and cartography


• Each week students have at least one in-class lab assignment based on real world GIS applications

• A significant part of GIS is creating maps to present findings

• Students will make at least 10 maps, including several of their study site at Wave Hill


• At Wave Hill, students use GPS equipment and survey tools to collect data about their work/study sites.

• By supplementing their lab and lecture time with hands-on workshops and field projects, students learn how to use GIS as a real-world problem-solving skill.

Excerpt from last summer’s syllabus: Course Schedule


• July 3, TUE, 12:30–5pm – Reading: Chapter 1, Basics of Mapping and GIS (Maantay & Ziegler) – Lecture theme: Course overview, introduction to GIS, history of cartography – Laboratory

• Lab 1: Exploring Basic GIS Functionality • Lab 2: Introduction to ArcGIS • Lab 3: Displaying and Manipulating Spatial Information • Lab 4: Making a Thematic Map

• July 10, WED, 10am–5pm

– Reading: Chapter 2, Spatial Data & Basic Mapping Concepts (Maantay & Ziegler); Case study: Urban Forest Management

– Lecture theme: Basics of cartography and spatial data *Quiz – Laboratory

• Lab 5: Selecting and Displaying Features • Lab 6: Displaying and Manipulating Attribute Data

Map by Johnny Nguyen And Audrey Bleier GIS Final Project Lehman College Prof. Holly Porter-Morgan

Ashleigh’s site Site #2 Summer Field Work: Garlic Mustard Garlic Mustard is one of the most widespread and problematic invasive species found in our site. In addition to second-year garlic mustard plants, there is a sizeable amount of first-year plants throughout the area.

Examples of Student Final Projects

Examples of Student Final Projects Sugar maples have outcompeted recently planted oak trees in WERM Study Site B

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