Environmental Studies Internships

Internships are a required element of the environmental studies major. During the pre-internship seminar (ENST 3988) students explore their interests, learn about the process of finding an internship, and learn from previous students about their recent internship experiences.  Following the pre-internship seminar, students work individually with the environmental studies internship coordinator to identify specific opportunities.  

After completing the internship, students enroll in the post-internship seminar (ENST 3989) to process their experience through reflective writing and presentations, and interacting with students in the pre-internship seminar.

Selected organizations with which our students have in recent years interned or engaged in field or research experiences include:

Agriculture and Food

• Baker’s Acres (Avon, MN)

• Earthrise Farms (Madison, MN)

• Lakeside Prairie Farm (Elbow Lake, MN)

• Land Stewardship Project (Montevideo, MN)

• Living Song Farm (Hutchinson, MN)

• Moonstone Farm

• Morris Healthy Eating (Morris, MN)

• Mount Vernon Farm

• Permaculture Research Institute for a Cold Climate (Minneapolis, MN)

Research Experiences

Conserving potato diversity in the Andean Altiplano (student-designed project)

• Harvard Forest

• Michigan State University REU-ecotoxicology

• Southern Illinois University REU-Cache River Macroinvertebrates

• University of Minnesota/Salish Kootenai College REU-Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Blue Camas

• USDA North Central Soil Conservation Laboratory (Morris, MN)

• USDA National Agricultural Library (Beltsville, MD)

• UMM Summer Research with UMM faculty (salamander telemetry, forestry)

Conservation and Water Resources

• Great River Greening  (Minneapolis, MN)

• Isanti County Soil and Water Conservation District, Conservation Corps Minnesota (Cambridge, MN)

• Pomme de Terre River Association (Morris, MN)

• Pope County Soil and Water Conservation District, Conservation Corps Minnesota (Glenwood, MN)

• USFWS Wetlands Management District Office (Detroit Lakes, MN)

Environmental/Outdoor Education and Leadership

• Minnesota Zoo (Apple Valley, MN)

• National Outdoor Leadership Program (Alaska, Colorado)

• Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center (Spicer, MN)

• Wilderness Inquiry (St. Paul, MN)

• Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center (Finland, MN)

Others

• Marshall Avenue Green Streets Initiative (St. Paul, MN)

• Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (Morris/Minneapolis MN)

• Minnesota Green Corps (Morris, MN)

• Scream Agency (Denver, CO)

• UMM Center for Small Towns (Morris, MN)

• UMM Office of Sustainability (Morris, MN)

• Vosumnotfo (Swaziland)
  
• West Central Research and Outreach Center (Morris, MN)