Content: Internships
Understand the Issues - Do Something About Them
Internships and research experiences can round out a college education by putting academic learning in context. ESES majors can earn academic credit in the capstone course (ESES 400) for approved internships and research projects - talk to your ESES advisor to learn more. Of course, you don't need to get academic credit to benefit from an internship: browse through the Earth System, Society and Environment internship links below and get inspired!
Featured Program
Students Conserving America (SCA) SCA offers 3-to-12 month, expense-paid internship opportunities in all 50 states, in more than 50 professional fields with the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and more. The SCA has over 45,000 alumni around the world, and as many as 60% of SCA alumni become conservation professionals.
Local and State Programs
- Champaign County Forest Preserve District offers interships and summer jobs in Natural Resources, Environmental Education, Park Interpretation, and Ecological restoration.
- Allerton Park near Monticello, IL, runs internships in a range of areas, from diversified farms, ecological restoration, landscape architecture and energy use.
- Illinois EPA Pollution Prevention. Each year, Illinois EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention recruits upper-level university students to work on pollution prevention projects during the summer.
- Governor's Environmental Corps. Sponsored by the Governor of Illinois and the Illinois EPA, interns in the Governor's Environmental Corps. get experience in IEPA's operations, including Air, Land and Water Pollution Control, Laboratories, Legal Counsel and Community Relations.
- Chicagoland Environmental Network provides a wide variety of internship opportunities in northeastern Illinois. The provide a database of local environmental internship and employment opportunities from a diverse number of institutions.
- IDNR Internship Program. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources provides internships in environmental education, natural resource management, park interpretation and administration.
- Illinois State Geological Survey. The ISGS main office is located on the UIUC campus is Champaign. They periodically announce internship and other employment opportunities.
- Illinois Natural History Survey provides internships, part-time and full-time employment, and is located on the UIUC campus in Champaign.
- ECO-USA for Illinois - a great resource of links and organizations.
- Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and Wisconsin works to protect the midwest's environmental heritage.
- Prairie River Network is right here in Champaign has volunteer opportunities and links to local groups.
- Illinois Sierra Club is part of the national Sierra Club organization and has openings for interns in Chicago, Alton, and Southern Illinois. .