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Make a Difference - Teach Existing Environmental Education (ECOLEARN) |
Teach exciting prepared environmental education lesson plans at local elementary schools. |
Environmental Protection Agency |
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EPA-USA-1 |
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Educational design |
Environmental protection and sustainability are critical issues for our youth to both understand and to act upon. Schools around the country are struggling to integrate the concepts into their curricula. Often, parent volunteers are called upon to help and spend hours developing and providing a volunteer lesson in their child’s classroom.
EPA is looking for 6 interns for this project who can teach in the following areas – within King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties of Washington State. Other interns outside of these areas can apply for this internship as long as you have an established relationship with a school near you that you can teach classes at. If you need help with connecting to a school, please contact this project's contacts above. We would like school relationships to be set up before starting the internship. |
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United States |
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Regional or other specific knowledge required: education, curriculum development and environmental issues.
You must be able to pass a background test to be in schools.
Over the past four years, we have had interns assigned to this project that have developed a set of eight 60 minute lesson plans per grade level, preschool through fifth grade, to be used by parents, students, teachers or
other interested people. The interns developed and have been testing the lesson plans in local elementary schools. Topics included: Animals, Air, Water, Ecosystems, Energy, Waste, Food, and Climate Change.
Students have consolidated information already available and filled in the lesson plan gaps (e.g., specify required readings, essays, activities, etc.) where needed. The students compiled the resources into a simple, easy
to use format organized by grade that is broadly accessible to the users. Also the interns have created power points with audio to go with each of the lessons.
We now want to continue the testing the lesson plans more broadly, expanding our outreach and make necessary revisions to the materials.
EPA will be providing training to the selected interns on:
1) How to teach in the classroom
2) Standards
3) Make initial contacts with schools
The internship for this year will:
4) Test in one or more schools (an entire school year)
5) Revise the lesson plans accordingly
6) Develop clear time frames and materials needed
7) Track schedules of teaching |
2018-05-08 18:53:10 |
100 |
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1279 |
EPA-USA-2
Improve Public Access to Water Quality Data
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Encourage public involvement and better regulatory decisions by entering water quality data that currently exist only in the EPA's internal files into a publicly accessible database. |
Data analysis, Data visualization, GIS expertise |
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Improve Public Access to Water Quality Data |
Encourage public involvement and better regulatory decisions by entering water quality data that currently exist only in the EPA's internal files into a publicly accessible database. |
Environmental Protection Agency |
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EPA-USA-2 |
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Data analysis, Data visualization, GIS expertise |
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) wastewater discharge permits often require collection of water quality data for the waterbodies to which the permitted facilities discharge pollutants. The EPA uses these data to decide what conditions need to be included in these permits. General information about the NPDES permitting program can be found here:
https://www.epa.gov/npdes
Unfortunately, most of these data are not currently stored in a proper database, even though the EPA maintains such a database called STORET, which is accessed publicly through the Water Quality eXchange or (WQX). More information is available here:
https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/water-quality-data-wqx
You can change that! Making these data publicly available will improve the public's understanding of the quality of their waters and help federal, State and local government regulators make better decisions about how to protect water quality. |
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United States |
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The ideal candidate will be a responsible, self-starting, detail-oriented individual with knowledge of computer databases. Knowledge of chemistry, ecology, and geographic information systems (GIS) are desirable but not necessary. |
2018-06-07 20:03:22 |
100 |
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1635 |
EPA-USA-3
Predictive Analytics for Environmental Sensor Network
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Streaming Nooksack is a Realtime Water Monitoring Network located in Washington State that analyzes pollutants in the Nooksack River and several tributaries. This data is loaded to the web and will be... |
Coding, Data analysis, Data visualization, Research |
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Predictive Analytics for Environmental Sensor Network |
Streaming Nooksack is a Realtime Water Monitoring Network located in Washington State that analyzes pollutants in the Nooksack River and several tributaries. This data is loaded to the web and will be visible to the public. Interns will be working on the predictive analytics portion of the project. |
Environmental Protection Agency |
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EPA-USA-3 |
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Coding, Data analysis, Data visualization, Research |
We are working with a distributed network of experimental "real time" water monitoring sensors and need team members to help us build on the previous successful VSFS project to help us analyze and visualize the extensive field data we are receiving. You'll be joining a team of scientists, lawyers and environmental protection specialists in this cutting edge project which will use your expertise manipulating and visualizing sets of big data. Successful applicants will be familiar with Qlik Apps, R, Python, Jupyter Notebook and Git, among others |
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United States |
United States |
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2018-05-03 11:37:58 |
100 |
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