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{Audubon Canyon Ranch} Conservation Science Intensive
ACR's Conservation Science Intensive inspires young women to develop a stronger connection to themselves, each other, and the natural world while learning about and practicing land conservation, stewardship, nature writing, and illustration. During this 5-day, 4-night collaborative expeditionary program challenges participants - individually and collectively - physically, creatively, and intellectually, as they work with and learn from ACR’s highly-skilled conservation biologists, ecologists, educators and guest artists, writers, and musicians. Daily activities include extensive time on the land, natural history skill building (tracking, botany, birding, working with maps/GPS, etc.), stewardship & conservation projects, directed journaling, solo time, team building, and group discussion, all within a framework of strong leadership - a culture of safety, encouragement, loving kindness, and mutual respect on all levels and at all times.
{Biosphere Foundation} Biosphere Stewardship Educational Program
Biosphere Foundation (BF) invites high school students aged 15-18 to join their Balinese counterparts for an environmental stewardship program set in beautiful Bali Barat National Park (BBNP), located on the northwest coast of the island. The park is a treasure with an abundance of wildlife and contains a rare combination of earth’s ecosystems: a coral reef, rainforest, monsoon forest, mangrove forest and savannah. During this nine-day program, students will have the opportunity to participate in a unique approach to learning about our biosphere and how to care for it.
{Catawba College} Redesigning Our Future: A National Environmental Summit
Three leading organizations – the Center for the Environment at Catawba College, Rocky Mountain Institute, and the Environmental Working Group – are partnering to provide an opportunity for young environmental leaders to learn, create, share, interact, grow, connect, and build relationships. You know you have unique talents and particular interests; at Redesigning Our Future 2020, you will learn the skills needed to use your passions to create a sustainable world. Small group workshops will focus on creating a toolbox of leadership skills that can be used now and in your future.
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{Chatham University} Sustainability Leadership Academy
Want to help build a happier, healthier and more equitable future? Interested in a career in sustainability but not sure where to start? Explore topics in sustainability and social justice during an unforgettable week-long experiential retreat at Eden Hall Campus–the world's first academic community built to be sustainable from below the ground up. Open to rising 10th, 11th and 12th graders, as well as students leaving 12th grade, Chatham's Sustainability Leadership Academy provides the chance to: Make like-minded friends from across the country; Explore Pittsburgh during excursions to the city's sustainable highlights; Dive deeply into the connection between participants’ social identities, social justice and sustainability; Develop the leadership skills needed to be a change agent; Experience a taste of college life and earn college credit (optional for an additional fee); Participate in hands-on experiential learning with faculty in the field; Ask questions and gain mentorship from local leaders in the field.
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{George Mason University} How to be a Better Naturalist
Live and learn alongside an international community of Smithsonian researchers and industry professionals, and earn college credits through George Mason University! Through the lens of the mid-Atlantic region, students will learn how to observe and identify taxa like birds, mammals, wildflowers, insects, and trees in the field. Students will practice the field marks for observing individuals of those taxa and apply those skills to the biodiversity near their own homes.
{George Mason University} Introduction to Field Conservation Ecology
Live and learn alongside an international community of Smithsonian researchers and industry professionals, and earn college credits through George Mason University! Get first-hand exposure to conservation fieldwork and learn how you can contribute to the long-term survival of species in natural habitats.
{Hotchkiss School} Summer Portal: Environmental Science
The Hotchkiss Summer Environmental Science program is a cumulative, field-based, two-tier program that introduces key concepts in environmental science and encourages students to become stewards of natural resources on a local, national, and global level. Hotchkiss’s 800-plus acres of woods, pastures, streams, and lakes offer incredible opportunities for hands-on research.
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{Loyola Marymount University} Environmental Science at LMU: The Living City
Students with a passion for the natural and social sciences, a love of the outdoors, and an interest in learning about urban ecosystems, will thrive in this adventurous, pre-college immersion program built for curious environmentalists. Attending class in LMU’s state-of-the-art, LEED-certified Life Sciences Building, students enrolled in this engaging field-ecology course, will explore how the scientific disciplines of biology, chemistry, botany, ecology, social science and engineering intersect to help urban ecologists work together towards solutions to the complex environmental and social challenges facing urban communities. Students will learn about research being conducted by faculty, staff and undergraduates in the LMU-CURes’ Lab on coyote-management, hummingbird torpor and behavior, tree health and growth, mosquito abundance, water quality, social stewardship mapping, and much, much more! This in-depth, two-week scientific adventure takes place amid the uniquely complex ecosystem of the Ballona Wetlands, a coastal estuary located just below the bluffs of LMU and the last remaining wetland in Los Angeles. Students will learn about the diverse flora and fauna that enable this wetland to thrive in the heart of Los Angeles! Through a series of daily lectures and hands-on lab work, the combination of indoor instruction and outdoor field work will introduce and immerse students in the world of field ecology and the research paradigm. The course work will be augmented by field trips to local sites that are playing key roles in the Los Angeles’ story of urban growth, restoration, and community solutions to complex socio-ecological challenges, including the human-wildlife intersect, habitat fragmentation, protection of wildlife corridors & biodiversity, pollution management, water quality, and green space inequity, among others. Students will learn ways they can make a difference in their own communities, by working collaboratively towards sustainable solutions to build resilient communities.
{Ohio Forestry Association} Camp Canopy
Open to incoming freshmen through graduating seniors (up to 19 years of age) Camp Canopy is the summer activity all of your friends will be talking about. A weeklong (Sunday-Friday) camp the second week of June held at Ohio FFA Camp Muskingum in Carrollton, it’s the perfect mix of forestry, wildlife and adventure.
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{Putney Student Travel} Harvard Chan C-CHANGE Youth Summit on Climate, Equity, and Health - Empowering Young People to Lead
Dive into issues of climate change, equity, and public health alongside peers, educators, and leading professionals from the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE). Choose an Action Focus based on your interests and explore how climate change is intertwined with public health, medicine, social justice, economics, and policy. Gain perspective from scientists, health practitioners, policymakers, youth activists, and clean energy innovators at the forefront of tackling the climate crisis. Take what you have learned and transform your ideas into a Community Action Plan, and return home ready to address these issues in your own community.
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{Sewanee: The University of the South} Pre-College Field Studies Experience
Sewanee's Pre-College Field Studies Experience is a summer residential program for talented students who are passionate about the outdoors and interested in advancing their knowledge and skills in the study of the environment.
Led by full-time faculty and staff at the University of the South and utilizing its 13,000-acre campus atop the ecologically diverse Cumberland Plateau, the program provides an interdisciplinary introduction to environmental studies.
This two-week experience explores the diverse ecosystems of the Cumberland Plateau: its forests, coves, streams, lakes, wetlands, and caves. Students participate in ecological exploration with senior faculty examining the plant and animal species that inhabit these ecosystems and use archeological techniques, along with GIS and GPS technology, to study how people have used and changed these ecosystems over time. Students learn how conservation strategies are currently being employed to protect the integrity of Plateau ecosystems into the future.
The experience is conducted almost exclusively in the field, featuring field mapping equipment, digital photography, ecological assessment techniques and group research projects. As part of this experience, students have the opportunity to take part in a number of outdoor recreational activities such as hiking, bouldering, canoeing, caving, and mountain biking.
{Smith College} Sustainable Futures: Farming, Justice and the Environment
Learn from farmers, activists, artists and naturalists in this two-week residential program. We will analyze contributing factors to the climate crisis, engage in socially and environmentally focused work and develop skills to cultivate human-nature relationships. You will be inspired and educated to act within your own community toward a sustainable future.
{Susquehanna University} Stream Ecology Institute
Stream ecology is the study of all the living and non-living components of stream systems and how those elements interact with each other. Think of anything you might find in a stream: a trout, a crayfish, a rock, a bug, maybe even an old tire. All of these things influence each other and are affected by one another in a continuum—from small streams to large rivers. This residential summer program will have you searching under rocks for crawdads and salamanders and testing stream waters for phosphate, nitrogen and dissolved oxygen. The SEI promotes learning experiences about long-term ecological studies to high school students. You will have the opportunity to learn more about the environment as well as explore career possibilities in science and ecology.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Sustainable Summer} Costa Rica: Seeds of Change
Our Costa Rica program is ideal for high school students with a strong interest in environmental sustainability, and particularly regenerative agriculture and organic farming. Your Sustainable Summer experience will span from Costa Rica’s legendary Pacific beaches to the tropical rainforests near its Caribbean coast. You’ll be living in or alongside some of Costa Rica’s most important biological reserves while learning about integrated sustainability initiatives to protect these valuable resources, and the many challenges that remain. Picture yourself learning how to grow organic produce at a regenerative farming project on the edge of a national park. Or on a guided night hike through Costa Rica’s virgin rainforest, when the jungle really comes alive. You’ll feel the rush of rafting Costa Rica’s world famous whitewater, play soccer with local kids, and come to understand why the essential Costa Rican phrase – pura vida – is the perfect embodiment of this beautiful place and the Tico people that call it home.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Sustainable Summer} Entrepreneurship and the Environment
Our Environmental Leadership Academy at Dartmouth is ideal for high school students with a strong interest in environmental sustainability, and is particularly well suited to students interested in entrepreneurship, socially-responsible business, and non-profits. Coursework on the program is rooted in entrepreneurship with a dash of environmental economics and a survey of some of the most important ideas in sustainability. Ultimately, we want to help students launch an organization that can create environmental good. The program examines topics including the responsibilities that businesses and individuals have towards the planet and society; the limitations and advantages that different organizational structures and business models have in advancing positive sustainability outcomes; how markets function and how incentives affect individual, business and institutional behavior; and how sustainability-conscious firms think about the management of natural resources in a market economy. With this foundation in place, the program then shifts focus to innovation whereby students learn how to start a company…by starting a company. During a 3-day “start-up” bootcamp participants are guided through the process of finding a market-oriented environmental problem worth solving and converting abstract ideas into real ventures.
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{Sustainable Summer} Sustainable Cities
Dynamic webs of living and nonliving, urban ecosystems exemplify nature’s resiliency, side by side with human innovation. Understanding the complexities of urban ecosystems requires multidisciplinary approaches and collaboration. In this two week, multi-track Brooklyn summer program, students follow their passion and choose one of three ‘specialties’ to focus on for the duration. By focusing on Transportation and Mobility; Urban Agriculture; or Green Buildings, students will explore the complex economic, ecological, and social factors that influence urban ecosystems. Using practical skills and inspiration gained from hands-on, experiential learning and direction from experts in each field, each student will develop and complete a final project. The program is focused on the practical integration of environmental science, policy, and design. Students will stretch their knowledge, skills and creativity to collaboratively produce an original proposal that community stakeholders could use to move the city towards a more sustainable, 21st Century New York.
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{Sustainable Summer} Towards a Green New Deal
The Green New Deal. It is a resolution to mobilize the nation’s resources and effectively transition the country to a carbon-neutral economy by 2030. It is also the target of mockery by many Republicans and a source of political worry by Democratic Party leaders. The plan calls for massive government investment to completely overhaul the energy, agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation sectors; upgrade all existing buildings for energy efficiency; restore ecosystems; and build resiliency against climate-change related disasters. All while guaranteeing well-paying, local jobs to anyone who wants one and protections for historically marginalized communities and those most impacted by climate change. In short, this isn’t so much environmental policy as an ambitious vision for an economy that makes the “original” New Deal look like a rather modest social program in comparison. Our focus on this program is to understand the GND. What is it? What does it aim to accomplish? And how? We know that urgent action on climate and environmental issues is required. By close examination of arguably the most bold climate action policy proposal ever, this program seeks to understand the mechanisms government has to impact the environment and the economy. We will also seek to understand the contentious politics of the GND in the context of the 2020 election. Student projects for this session will involve both research on a specific industry sector that would be fundamentally altered by a GND as well as the development of a policy position paper on the GND for a political campaign.
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