Yale SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CAREER DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

Yale  School  of  Forestry  &  Environmental  Studies  Summer  2016  Masters  Students’  Internships  and  Research  (as  of  May  31,  2016)  

Masters  students  are  required  to  undertake  an  internship  or  independent  research  project  between  the  first  and  second  years  of  their  degree  program.  The  information  in  this  report  includes  that  data  and  also  the  activities  of  joint  degrees  students  who  are  here  for  additional  summers.  Some  students  also  undertake  multiple  activities  in  one  summer;  all  of  their  experiences  are  reported.    

Business  and  Industry  

• AES  Energy  Storage  (subsidiary  of  AES  Corporation),  Market  Development  Summer  Intern,  DC  

• Aramco  Services  Company,  Summer  Intern,  MI  • Barclays,  Summer  Associate,  NY  • Beartooth  Capital  Partners/Deborah  Spalding,  Summer  Acquisitions  and  Strategy  

Analyst,  MT  • Boston  Consulting  Group,  Summer  Associate,  Sydney,  Australia  • Carbon  Pricing  Leadership  Coalition  /  World  Bank,  International  Finance  Corporation,  

CPLC  Intern  and  Yale  CBEY  Presenter,  DC  • Cascade  Designs,  Summer  Intern,  WA  • Comcast,  Energy  Strategy  &  Analysis  MBA  Internship,  PA  • Environmental  Defense  Fund  Climate  Corps  Fellow,  Jackson  Family  Wines,  CA  • Environmental  Defense  Fund  Climate  Corps  Fellow,  Univision  Communications,  FL  • Facebook,  Sustainability  Intern,  CA  • Greenwood  Resources,  Economics/Finance  Intern,  OR  • IKEA  Food  Services  AB,  Health  &  Sustainability  Intern,  Malmo,  Sweden  • Klabin,  Summer  Intern,  Telemaco  Borba,  Brazil  • Mithun,  Summer  Intern,  WA  • New  York  Mercantile  Exchange  (CME  Group),  Summer  Analyst  -­‐  Energy  Research  &  

Product  Development,  NY  • NorthStar  Recycling,  Commodity  Sales  Associate,  MA  • Olympia  Provisions,  Summer  Intern  -­‐  Sustainable  Sourcing,  OR  • Organic  Valley  (CROPP  cooperative),  Sustainability  Special  Projects  Intern,  WI  • Rabobank,  Summer  Associate,  NY  • SunPower  Corporation,  Supply  Chain  Sustainability  Internship,  CA  • Tetra  Tech  International  Development,  Summer  Intern,  VA  • Vans  (VF  Corporation),  Sustainability  Intern,  CA  • VOX  Global,  Sustainability  Fellow,  MA  

   Education  

 

Yale SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CAREER DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

• Environmental  Defense  Fund  Climate  Corps  Fellow,  Huston-­‐Tillotson  University,  TX  • The  Inn  at  East  Hill  Farm,  Conservation  Enhancement  and  Education  in  the  New  England  

Mixed  Forest,  NH  • UC  Davis,  Graduate  Student  Researcher,  CA  

Entrepreneurial  

• Kitchen  Table,  Inc.,  Co-­‐Founder  of  Kitchen  Table,  CT  • Persistent  Energy  Ghana,  Rural  Electrification  Interventions  in  Africa,  Accra,  Ghana    

 Government  and  Public  Sector  

• Athi  Water  Board,  Summer  intern,  Nairobi,  Kenya  • Bengawan  Solo  River  Basin  Office,  Water  resources  intern  for  sediment  countermeasure  

project,  Solo,  Indonesia  • Environmental  Defense  Fund  Climate  Corps  Fellow,  Port  of  Baltimore,  MD  • Environmental  Protection  Agency,  Honors  Law  Clerk,  DC  • Global  Environment  Facility  (GEF),  Summer  Intern,  DC  • Grand  Teton  National  Park,  GIS  Specialist,  WY  • House  Committee  on  Natural  Resources/Karen  Seto  and  Josh  Galperin,  Congressional  

Fellow,  DC  • Massachusetts  Bay  Transportation  Authority,  EDF  Climate  Corps  Fellow,  MA  • National  Oceanic  and  Atmospheric  Administration  (NOAA),  Summer  Intern,  DC  • National  Park  Service  /  Net  Impact,  Business  Management  Consultant,  MA  • New  York  Attorney  General,  Environmental  Protection  Bureau,  Law  Student  Intern,  NY  • New  York  Green  Bank,  Summer  Investment  Associate,  NY  • NOAA/NPS,  Summer  intern,  CA  • Office  of  the  Assistant  Secretary  of  Defense,  US  Department  of  Defense,  Summer  Intern,  

DC  • Ryan  Ensling,  Office  of  Energy  Demand,  Bureau  of  Energy  and  Technology  and  Policy,  

Summer  Intern,  CT  • U.S.  Department  of  State/Amity  Doolittle,  Intern  in  the  Political  and  Economic  Section,  

Luanda,  Angola  • United  Nations  Development  Program  (Barbados)  and  the  OECS,  Summer  Intern,  

Barbados  • United  Nations  Development  Programme,  Summer  Intern,  Bangkok,  Thailand  • United  Nations  Development  Programme,  Summer  Intern,  Bridgetown,  Barbados  • United  Nations  Development  Programme,  Global  Climate  Change  Alliance  Summer  

Intern,  Paramaribo,  Suriname    • White  House  Internship  Program,  Intern,  Office  of  Energy  &  Climate  Change,  DC  • White  House  Office  of  Science  and  Technology  Policy,  Summer  Intern,  DC  

 

 

Yale SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CAREER DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

Law  

• Cascadia  Wildlands,  Legal  Intern,  OR  • Environmental  Protection  Agency  Region  2  -­‐  Office  of  Regional  Counsel,  Legal  intern,  NY  • Spiegel  &  McDiarmid,  Summer  Associate,  DC  

 

NGOs  and  Other  Non-­‐Profits  

• Coalition  for  Green  Capita,  Summer  Intern,  NY  • Cradle  to  Cradle  Products  Innovation  Institute,  Summer  Intern,  CA  • EcoAgriculture  Partners,  Summer  Intern,  DC  • Ecotrust  Forest  Management,  Summer  Intern,  OR  • Environmental  Defense  Fund,  Global  Climate  Summer  Intern,  DC  • Mercy  Corps  (MESc  Advisor  Amity  Doolittle),  ACCCRN  Urban  Climate  Resilience  Network  

(URCN)  Analysis  Intern,  Jakarta,  Indonesia  • National  Parks  Conservation  Association,  Research  Fellow,  Mid-­‐Atlantic  Regional  Office,  

DC  • Natural  Resources  Defense  Council,  Cameron  Speth  Fellow,  DC  • Natural  Resources  Defense  Council,  Summer  Intern,  DC  • New  England  Forestry  Foundation,  Land  Protection  Intern,  CA  • NextGen  Climate  America,  Policy  Intern,  CA  • Organización  Regional  de  los  Pueblos  Indígenas  del  Oriente/Amity  Doolittle,  Indigenous  

Land  Rights  Intern,  Iquitos,Peru  • PolicyLink,  All-­‐in  Cities  Intern,  CA  • Resources  for  the  Future,  Kailin  Kroetz,  Summer  Intern  -­‐  Network  Analysis  of  the  

Dynamic  Evolution  of  Fishing  Permit  Portfolios,  DC  • Rural  Voices  for  Conservation  Coalition,  Summer  Intern,  OR  • SPREP,  Climate  Change  Intern,  Apia,  Samoa  • SPREP,  Climate  Change  Division  Intern,  Apia,  Samoa  • Trust  for  Public  Land,  Trust  for  Public  Lands  Fellow  -­‐  Climate  Smart  Cities,  MA  • United  Stated  Business  Council  for  Sustainable  Development  (USBCSD),  Industrial  

Ecologist,  TX  • Urban  Resources  Initiative,  Community  Forester,  CT  • Urban  Resources  Initiative,  Community  Forester,  CT  • Urban  Resources  Initiative,  Summer  intern,  CT  • Winrock  International,  Summer  Intern,  Chengdu,  China    • Woods  Whole  Research  Center,  Summer  intern,  Mbandaka,  Democratic  Republic  of  

Congo  • World  Food  Programme,  Summer  Fellow,  Climate  Change  Adaptation,  Rome,  Italy  • World  Resources  Institute,  Summer  Intern,  Sao  Paulo,  Brazil  • WWF  Korea,  Summer  Associate,  Seoul,  South  Korea  • Yale  School  Forests,  Apprentice  Forester,  CT  

 

Yale SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CAREER DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

• Yale  School  Forests,  Apprentice  Forester,  CT    

Non  U.S.  Independent  Research  

• Perceptions  of  autonomy  and  conservation  in  the  certified  community  conserved  areas  of  Oaxaca,  Mexico  

• Researcher  in  expansion  of  oil  palm  plantations  through  collection  of  oral  narratives,  Peru  

• Researcher  in  wildlife  management,  Botswana  • Researcher  in  diffusion  of  agricultural  innovations  and  rural  development,  Tamale,  

Ghana  • Researcher  in  silvopastoral  systems,  Colombia  

 U.S.  Independent  Research    

• Adaptation  of  agricultural  land-­‐use  to  climate  change,  CT  • An  examination  of  ectomycorrhizal  communities  associated  with  eastern  hemlock  under  

varying  types  and  levels  of  duress,  CT  • Comparing  methods  for  the  measurement  of  evapotranspiration,  CT  • Conducting  a  participatory  mapping  survey,  MD  • Creating  a  mathematical  model  for  stream  surface  light  availability  given  stream  order  

and  riparian  land  cover  type,  CT  • Documentary  filmmaker,  WA  and  AK  • Empowering  at-­‐risk  students  to  shape  environmental  challenges  with  design,  CA  • Examine  the  pre-­‐planting  and  maintenance  techniques  that  encourage  natural  

regeneration  in  urban  NYC  forests,  NY  • Impact  of  residential  racial/ethnic  segregation  on  airborne  fine  particulate  matter  in  the  

United  States,  CT  • Pathways  and  consequences  of  human  and  chimpanzee  interaction  around  Nyungwe  

National  Park,  Rwanda  • Principal  Investigator,  WA  • Research  and  journalistic  writing  on  land  management  conflicts  and  the  conflicts  that  

arise  from  them,  WY  • Researcher  in  energy  economics,  CT  • Researcher  in  silvopastoral  systems,  Panama  • Researcher  in  social  dynamics  of  the  built  environment,  CA  • Researcher  in  tropical  agroforestry,  Brazil  • Researcher  in  urban  environmental  health,  MD    • Researcher  in  watershed  biogeochemistry,  CT  • Researching  efficient  clean  energy  promotion  strategies  for  governments  and  

environmental  organizations,  CT  • Researching  the  chemical  effect  of  snowmelt  in  alpine  lakes  of  the  Wind  River  Range,  

WY  

 

Yale SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CAREER DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

• Researching  the  factors  that  lead  to  the  establishment  and  regeneration  of  Hickory,  CT  • Social  context  and  stakeholder  analysis  of  the  Red  Desert  to  Hoback  mule  deer  

migration,  WY  • Student  applicant  to  the  Geneva  challenge,  CT