DIGEST 1/17/22: The Welcome to Another Covid Semester one

Dear ENST and E&C community: Welcome to spring semester, 2022. It's a bonkers time with the "repopulation" of campus, the CFA and student activists working on getting classes to be online, etc.. I hope you're all staying safe in this peak of Omicron and continued uncertainty. I don't know about you, but I could go for a campus-wide, well-socially-distanced, primal scream, some kind of cathartic release of all we've been through and an expression of the exhaustion we feel. Maybe go do that before you read on. This digest starts with a couple of announcements about the ENST department, and then all the other HSU and community events and job announcements are below. The usual gem for anybody still hanging on is tucked at the bottom, as always. Top of the list-- Northcoast Environmental Center is hiring PAID INTERNS!!!!! DEADLINE IS TOMORROW PEOPLE!!!! (I sent this a few times over the past few weeks too, stridently trying to bring them to your attention). These are so up our alley it's not even funny. I'll be working with the Director of NEC to build these into ENST curricula; that's how excited I am about them, and I want ENST students to grab these fast. It's thrilling to see the professional world hiring in exactly the areas we are training y'all to be proficient. If you apply and want this to count as credits toward your degree, we can absolutely make that happen. Apply, then we'll get you registered for units and get them into your DARS. Don't delay though! Check these out: Our Internships: EcoNews Journalism Internship Outdoor Justice Internship Local Policy Internship For the Spring 2022 semester the Northcoast Environmental Center is offering three REMOTE, FLEXIBLE, PAID internships ($14/hour for 45 hours). Each internship will have a focus on environmental justice and be interconnected with our other internships. Preference will be given to BIPOC student applicants. Each internship is expected to complete 45 hours for the semester. Schedule is flexible. HSU internship or course credit may be available depending on your department offerings, so please consult with your faculty advisor. Application Process: Applications are due January 18, 2022. Email resume with relevant experience and skills, a letter of recommendation (if available), and your predicted weekly availability to nec@yournec.org. Department Chair Office Hours: My office hours this semester are Wednesdays 12-2 via zoom here, or face to face in FH 107 after these first couple of weeks, to give everybody some time to settle back into campus. ENST Department Personnel changes are afoot!: 1. Alma, our administrative support staff, has left HSU for a career change in Sacramento. We are so sad about this, as she has been a bedrock for us since I arrived and the program was brand-new. We would never have gotten where we are without her. Peggy Stewart is acting as that position until we fill it permanently. Torie Mather will be administrative support for E&C. These folks are CC'ed here in case you need to reach out to them. They are awesome and we are grateful for their help. 2. Kim and Delaney remain amazing Peer Mentors for pre-advising and other kinds of resources. We will have a new slate of events and professional development opportunities this semester, and will let you know when we have them. Please let us know if there is anything in particular you'd like us to schedule (another alumni panel? A job search workshop? etc). As always, we will host the regular Advising + Pizza night during registration season, hopefully F2F if possible. They will also be finalizing the logo competition, which got delayed last semester-- apologies. 3. We have a replacement for Sarah Bacio, our ACAC professional and academic advisor assigned to ENST, which is none other than Meridith Orum, who is amazing. This is great news, and though we're having a lot of turnover, I have high hopes she will be great for ENST. Meridith will develop many of the professional development workshops we do for ENST majors, as well as do advising for first-years and first-year transfers. 4. We have a new Dean in the CAHSS, where ENST is housed. He seems great, and I've already been working with him earnestly on a variety of things. His name is Jeff Crane, and I'm happy that he is attuned to the issues we care about in ENST-- climate justice, environmental justice, and the role of the arts/humanities/social sciences in doing environmental work. 5. Karlee Jackson will continue on as our ENST Media Fellow for '21-22. She is working on finalizing the canvas site, the ENST Student Resource Hub, which we expect to launch soon. Then she'll move to producing the ENST annual newsletter. If there is anybody you'd like to see profiled, or anything you'd like to include in the newsletter, or if you'd like to contribute or showcase some of your ideas or artwork, please let me know. We're building the list of features now! I know that as students, you probably don't care much about all of these personnel matters, but I assure you that you experience their support and decision-making every day in your HSU lives, whether you know it or not. They hold many of the structural levers that we have to work with to make things move (or not) for the goals we have in ENST, from administrative support to upper-level administrators. If you see our new folks, Torie, Peggy, Meridith, or Jeff Crane, please say hello and welcome! 2. DIGEST moving to Blog accessible on ENST Website Since so much of the content of our digests would be great to have archived for future reference, we're moving the digest content to a blog, here. That blog is also linked on our ENST webpage, here, so it's always findable, and you don't have to hunt into your hideous email inbox (apologies if you don't feel that way about your inbox!). We will also be linking this on the new Canvas ENST student resource hub page, for the same reason-- easy to find. For the next few weeks, I'll send the email out with all the content, and then I'll move it to the blog. If you have an opinion about how you best like to receive all the info I send in these digests, please let me know. My aim is to provide this info in the way you best like to receive it, but I have no idea what that might be. Feedback is very welcome. Help me help you, as they say! _________________________________________________________ And onto our regular stuff-- 1. The Washington-Oregon Sustainability in Higher Ed conference program this spring looks so amazing, including a panel on youth climate activism and justice. Check them all out here if you want to get involved with the cutting-edge ideas, networks, and conversations happening in the Pacific Northwest region. The conference is March 2-4, which is also overlapping with HSU's Social Justice Summit, so plan well! 2. HSU's Social Justice Summit is AWESOME again this year-- Topic: "Climate Justice and Intersectionality," February 28-March 5. I'll be giving a talk at this year's SJS on this topic, and all the other programming will be right up our alley, folks, so I hope to see a lot of ENST students involved, attending, etc. 3. HSU's Climate Action Plan seeks your input: We are updating the Climate Action Plan (CAP) and we want your input! The CAP 2.0 is a roadmap to guide the university towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2045 and building resilience to climate change impacts. We greatly value your ideas and suggestions to make this plan even better! Please go to the Climate Action Planning webpage. There you can download a copy of the draft CAP 2.0 and submit your ideas via an online comment form. Comments will be accepted until February 10. 4. Mid-Semester Feedback Facilitators: GRAD STUDENTS JOB OPP- deadline Feb. 15 The Center for Teaching and Learning is still hiring graduate students for spring 2022 to work as our Mid-Semester Feedback program facilitators. The position pays $16/hr and we will work with you to accommodate your schedule. About the work: The Mid-Semester Feedback program is an opportunity for faculty to hear feedback from students about what is helping them learn and what isn’t. Your primary role will be to spend a class period (in person or online) giving students questions to answer and facilitating discussion, then analyzing the results to create a report for faculty. Usually you will return to the class at the end of the semester for a follow-up discussion about changes implemented in the course. You will also meet with faculty ahead of time to review questions and meet with your supervisor to check-in. Learn more about the Mid-Semester Feedback program here Qualifications: We are looking for graduate students from any major. An interest in qualitative research is helpful, but not required. How to Apply: Interested graduate students can apply on Handshake to Job #5494418 or email their resume and cover letter directly to ctl@humboldt.edu. The job will remain open until February 15 or until all positions are filled. 5. January 27: Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution https://library.humboldt.edu/news/Korematsu2022 Zoom registration link for the event: https://hsu.link/FK-Day-Jan-27-Register Our event is Thursday of Week 2, so it's around the corner. Our keynote speaker is Stan Yogi, co-author of Wherever There's a Fight and Fred Korematsu Speaks Up (awesome packed-with-info picture book!). He is also co-curator of the online exhibit Seen and Unseen: Queering JA History Before 1945. 6. Remote, part-time positions with Real Food Generation Real Food Generation (“RFG”) harnesses the power of youth and universities to create an equitable and sustainable food system. One of RFG’s programs is Real Food Challenge (“RFC”), which won dozens of campaigns nationally to reorient university cafeterias toward food that is Local & Community Based, Fair, Ecologically Sound, and Humane. Anchors in Action Research Intern RFC is looking for a student or recent graduate to be a Research Intern for a one-of-a-kind project of developing an aligned set of food purchasing standards that centers racial equity, food sovereignty, and climate justice across each of the AiA organizations. The Intern will play an integral role in providing research support to two task forces that represent key values in food purchasing - Environmental Sustainability and Animal Welfare. The term for this role is February - May 2022. This job requires some weekend and evening work. Real Food Calculator Core Team Organizer The Core Team Organizer (CTO) program is a part-time and temporary opportunity for young organizers and leaders in Uprooted & Rising and Real Food Challenge to gain leadership skills by devoting substantial time to progressing the movement through deep project-based work at the national or regional level and to gain experience as part-time staff in a movement organization. The Real Food Calculator CTO will work up to 12 hours in a typical week and will be paid $15.50/hour. The term for this role is March through August 2022. This job requires some weekend and evening work. Real Food Challenge Core Team Organizer The Core Team Organizer (CTO) program is a part-time and temporary opportunity for young organizers and leaders in Uprooted & Rising and Real Food Challenge to gain leadership skills by devoting substantial time to progressing the movement through deep project-based work at the national or regional level and to gain experience as part-time staff in a movement organization. The pay range for this position is $15.50 per hour for 12 hours per week. These are remote positions and accepted applicants will be expected to have reliable access to a computer and an internet connection. The deadline to apply is January 14. Find more details and how to apply here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11hY2mSLbYg5vGstPPibT3W16zTZa0SLy6CyGmo0uC_8/edit# 7. ALPINE Summer Institute https://www.wildlandsandwoodlands.org/alpine-summer-institute Enrollment for the 2022 ALPINE Summer Institute is now open. This program, which will include once-a-week virtual sessions between early June and early August next summer, will also feature a face-to-face meeting at the Schoodic Institute in Winter Harbor, Maine from June 24 to 26, 2022 (depending on favorable public health conditions). Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as young professionals with a wide variety of academic backgrounds and levels of experience, are eligible to apply for the program. The Institute is designed for those who are interested in getting in-depth exposure to the practice of large landscape conservation in New England. Previous participants have come from a range of public and private colleges and universities as well as large and small conservation organizations. No New England residency or affiliation with a New England college, university, or conservation organization is required. The Summer Institute includes presentations, discussions, and writing assignments. Guest speakers from such organizations as the Harvard Forest, the International Land Conservation Network, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the Maine Coast Heritage Land Trust, and the Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust will join the class to share their insights and experience from the field. One full session will be devoted to a discussion of diversity and inclusion in the field of conservation. Participants must: Be able to attend all sessions of the program Provide their own transportation to and from the Summer Institute weekend at the Schoodic Institute in Maine. There will be no cost to the students for the program instruction associated with the ALPINE Summer Institute. For the in-person weekend at the Schoodic Institute, all lodging and food will be provided at no cost to the participant. Students will be asked to present a land conservation-focused research project to complete the program. Examples of past participant projects can be seen here. Upon completion of the workshops, students will receive a certificate from the ALPINE Summer Institute. 8. Middlebury School of the Environment Summer program in Monterey: Please let your students know that we have Environmental Science and Ecology scholarships for the Middlebury School of the Environment this summer. The program is 6-weeks (June 3-July 15) in Monterey, California through Middlebury College. All majors are eligible. 9. Yale Conservation Scholars/Early Leadership Initiative: We are happy to announce that we are accepting applications for the Yale Conservation Scholars - Early Leadership Initiative! Please pass this announcement on to any students who might be interested. The priority application date is Monday, January 10th. All applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis after this date until January 31st at 11:59 pm EST. We are holding an informational webinar on January 13th at 2:00 pm EST/ 11:00 am PST. You can RSVP here. Led by Dr. Dorceta Taylor, Program Director and Principal Investigator, the Yale Conservation Scholars – Early Leadership Initiative (YCS- ELI) was formerly known as the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at University of Michigan/Yale School of the Environment. YCS-ELI is a summer opportunity for undergraduates traditionally underrepresented in the conservation field and who are interested in careers in the sector. Any questions can be directed to YCS-ELI@yale.edu. 10. Sequoia Park Zoo Conservation Grants The Sequoia Park Zoo and Conservation Advisory Committee are accepting proposals for our eleventh annual Conservation Grant Program. Proposals should be submitted by individuals or organizations for projects that have a clear direct impact on conservation of wildlife and/or habitat. Appropriate projects include proposals for research, certain educational programs and habitat management. All types of conservation projects will be reviewed, with special consideration given to the following: projects in line with the Zoo mission, conservation goals and species represented at the zoo; projects conducting research and conservation in Humboldt County and northern CA. Support is limited to projects that can be completed within one year and funds will be granted up to $1,500. A post-project completion report will be required upon completion of the funded projects. Deadline for applications is Friday, January 28, 2022 at 5:00 PM. For more details and to download an application, please visit http://sequoiaparkzoo.net/.../conservation-grant-program/ 11. Zero Waste Humboldt Positions Zero Waste Humboldt positions. Zero Waste Humboldt is looking for one or two individuals to conduct the duties of a Development Director and Projects Manager. They seek applicants who are entrepreneurial, goal-oriented professionals to provide leadership through organization capacity building, fund development, event planning, and project management. This will start as a part-time position with potential for increased hours and growth based on funding availability. ZWH has a convenient downtown Arcata office for this position to work in COVID19-safe conditions, or work-at-home is also possible. There are still two days to submit an application before the hiring committee begins its first review of applications. The positions will be open until filled. See here for details. 12. 2022 Scholarship & Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference @ Harvard The 2022 Scholarship & Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference (SSJ) will take place on Thursday, April 14th, and Friday, April 15th, 2022, at Harvard College, Cambridge, MA. This year, the conference will be hosted through the Whova platform. Through Whova you may join the conference via your desktop or mobile phone (but you will need to download the app to your mobile phone). The site will be open for registration in January 2022. More details about the conference and how to apply can be found here. The purpose of this conference is: to honor scholarship which focuses on challenges facing society with regard to equity and inclusion and historically marginalized and under-represented communities; to illuminate community-engaged research which reflects qualities of reciprocity and mutuality in the co-creation of scholarship, in addition to being transdisciplinary and inclusive of knowledge from outside the academy. to provide undergraduate researchers an opportunity to engage in academic discourse and research dissemination. ___________________________________________________ And for the stalwart Digest readers, who are taking this firehose of opportunity in, and who read through so as to deserve the treat at the end, this is for you. The author of this poem is Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Monk who worked closely on anti-war and civil rights activism with Martin Luther King, whose birthday we celebrate today: "The Good News" They don’t publish the good news. The good news is published by us. We have a special edition every moment, and we need you to read it. The good news is that you are alive, and the linden tree is still there, standing firm in the harsh Winter. The good news is that you have wonderful eyes to touch the blue sky. The good news is that your child is there before you, and your arms are available: hugging is possible. They only print what is wrong. Look at each of our special editions. We always offer the things that are not wrong. We want you to benefit from them and help protect them. The dandelion is there by the sidewalk, smiling its wondrous smile, singing the song of eternity. Listen! You have ears that can hear it. Bow your head. Listen to it. Leave behind the world of sorrow and preoccupation and get free. The latest good news is that you can do it. – Thich Nhat Hanh Follow the HSU Environmental Studies Department on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HSUenvironmentalstudies Instagram: @environmental.studies.hsu Students, what have you been working on? We invite you to share your accomplishments (publications, presentations, grants, awards, creative activities, academic competitions and the like) with us by emailing me, and share with the HSU community via Humboldt Now. Do you know any alumni doing interesting things? We'd love to know what they're up to! Ask them to submit an alumni update here. And if you have poems, songs, or other news or announcements you'd like to share with the ENST community, please email Sarah.Ray@humboldt.edu. Faculty- please send your announcements to Sarah Ray for inclusion in the next Monday digest!