School of Natural Science and Mathematics
Environmental Science Internships
The science department has commitments from a variety of local organizations to provide internships to its students majoring in environmental science or minoring in environmental studies. Please check back for updates, as we hope to expand our list of internship opportunities as the program grows. Internships at organizations other than the ones listed below may also be arranged. Contact Dr. Rosie Bolen or Dr. Jeffrey Simmons for more information. The Career Center is also a good source of information about internships.
Strawberry Hill Nature Center (www.strawberryhill.org)
1537 Mount Hope Road
Fairfield, Pennsylvania 17320
717-642-5840
Through an internship with Strawberry Hill the student will learn how to apply knowledge learned in the classroom to solving environmental problems in the real world. The internship opportunity could include various resource management projects such as invasive plant removal, forest management, wetland restoration, watershed protection projects, and GIS/GPS mapping.
ThorpeWood Nature Center (www.thorpewood.org)
Thorpe Foundation
12805-A Mink Farm Road
Thurmont, Maryland 21788-1402
ThorpeWood is a non-profit organization serving youth and the community through providing environmental education by hands-on learning. They also offer numerous internship opportunities such as native planting, landscaping, watershed education, arboretum, vegetable gardens, and green building. Native planting involves researching and cataloguing invasive plants, and furthermore, researching strategies for control of these plants. Landscaping involves maintenance of individual groups of native plants. Watershed education involves helping to coordinate a high school stream assessment program. Students also have the opportunity to work with stream studies and buffer restoration in Frederick County. Working in the arboretum, students will catalog the different trees and bushes and may also plant and maintain heirloom vegetable gardens. For the Green Building project students will track the chemical and biological reports of grey water.
New Forest Society (www.emmitsburg.net/nfs/)
14726 Old Frederick Road
Rocky Ridge, Maryland 21778
301-271-4459
In working with the New Forest Society, students would have the opportunity to help establish buffers that would filter pollution and halt erosion, develop programs for reforestation, encourage citizen involvement in the protection of the environment and help conserve natural resources and preserve land. The New Forest Society is also working to develop an environmental scholarship program to which interested students would be able to apply every spring.
Fulton Center for Sustainable Living, Wilson College (www.wilson.edu/wilson/asp/content.asp?id=220)
1015 Philadelphia Avenue
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 17201
717-264-4141 ext. 3247
The Fulton Center is a hands-on environmental education facility. An internship would include working in the following areas: an organic produce farm, sustainable energy projects, interpretive nature trail, land stewardship projects, composting facility, and community watershed education.
Hundredfold Farm (www.hundredfoldfarm.org)
1668F Old Route 30
Orrtanna, PA 17353
717-334-9426
Hundredfold Farm is a co-housing community currently under construction in Orrtanna, Pa., focused on environmental sustainability. When the construction is further underway, internships may be available to assist in the community supported agriculture (CSA) program and to help in maintaining and monitoring the artificial wetland used for wastewater remediation.
Contact information for other possible internship sites
Catoctin Mountain Park (www.nps.gov/cato/)
6602 Foxville Road
Thurmont, MD 21788-1598
301-663-9388
Cunningham Falls State Park (www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/western/cunninghamfalls.html)
14039 Catoctin Hollow Road
Thurmont, MD 21788
(301) 271-7574
Heathcote Community (www.heathcote.org)
21300 Heathcote Rd.
Freeland, MD 21053
info@heathcote.org
Alliance for Community Trees
Attn: Fellowship Program
5010 Sunnyside Avenue, Suite 305
Beltsville, MD 20705
301-220-3279
jared@actrees.org
Adams County Conservation District (www.sru.edu/Depts/pcee/FacilityDir/AdamsCoConsDist32.htm)
111-117 Baltimore Street
Gettysburg, PA 17325
717-334-0636
lmartick@acc.pa.net
Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection (www.co.mo.md.us/)
255 Rockville Pike, Suite 120
Rockville, MD 20850-4166
240-777-7780
VANNEK@co.mo.md.us
Baltimore Zoo (www.baltimorezoo.org/youzoo.cfm#volunteer)
Druid Hill Park
Baltimore, MD 21217
410-396-7623
Smithsonian National Zoological Park (http://nationalzoo.si.edu/default.cfm)
3001 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20008
nationalzoo@si.edu
C & O Canal National Historic Park (www.sca-inc.org/)
301-739-6601
Chesapeake Bay Foundation (www.cbf.org)
The Old Water Works Building
614 North Front Street; Suite G
Harrisburg, PA 17101
717-234-5550
mdowney@cbf.org
Frederick County Health Department
350 Montevue Lane
Frederick, MD 21703
301-631-3179
lbohn@fredco-md.net
National Aquarium in Baltimore (www.aqua.org/)
Pier 3, 501 Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
410-576-3888
intern@aqua.org
Sierra Club Maryland Office (http://maryland.sierraclub.org/)
7338 Baltimore Avenue #1A
College Park, MD 20740
301-277-7111
