Weekly Environmental Jobs List -July 10

I'm Giacomo Abrusci, your mussel-y environmental guide and welcome to the 7CONTINENTS Weekly Jobs List brought to you by SEVENSEAS Media. Here you'll find land ecosystems jobs that cover biodiversity, air, climate, and everything in between. Ocean jobs and announcements appear in a different edition of this same newsletter. If you would like to contribute jobs or announcements, email them to community@sevenseasmedia.org.

NEWS ‒ REPORTS ‒ ANNOUNCEMENTS

A Ban on Elephant Hunting Has Collapsed. Or Maybe It Never Existed On the lush, rolling savannas that link northern Tanzania to Amboseli National Park in Kenya, foraging elephants move back and forth on a sloping landscape in the shadow of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro. The animals are accustomed to open-sided 4x4s full of tourists on the Kenyan side and seem to sense no danger from the visitors pointing phones. But what the animals probably do not know is that just across the border on the Tanzanian side, which for three decades was just as safe as the park, there are now people pointing guns, not cameras. Read more...

Flash Flooding After New Mexico Wildfires Highlights Climate Risks After two weeks of wildfires, a deluge in New Mexico caused severe flash flooding and debris flows near Ruidoso over the weekend.  Dark floodwaters, blackened with soot and ash from the South Fork and Salt fires, rushed down mountain canyons and into town, turning Highway 70 into a river and pushing over a fuel tanker, according to videos posted to social media. Homes and businesses suffered damage, and emergency services reported 77 water rescues. Read more...

A study says 40% of the Amazon region is potentially conserved — more than officially recorded A larger portion of the Amazonian region might be under protection or potentially conserved than official records indicate, according to a new study published in the journal One Earth.  A team of international researchers found that more than 40% of land across the nine Amazonian countries is under some form of conservation management, significantly higher than the 28% reported in official records. This figure includes all biomes in the region such as the Amazon rainforest, the Cerrado, the Atlantic forest, the Chaco, and Pantanal. In the Amazon rainforest alone, 62.44%  of the land is under some sort of area-based conservation. Read more...

New Opportunities

1. Private Lands Biologist, Conservation Management Institute of Virginia Tech, Campbellsville, KY

2. Scientific Software Developer, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

3. Data Visualization Developer, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at UC Berkeley, CA

4. Communications Manager, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

5. Operations Coordinator, The Montana Land Reliance (MLR), Helena, MT

6. North Central Washington Forest Health Collaborative Coordinator, Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Board, Wenatchee, WA

7. Conservation Director of Research, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta, GA

8. Colorado Land Protection Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, CO

9. Restoration Ecologist, McHenry County Conservation District, Woodstock, IL

10. Grant Administrator, Peconic Land Trust, Southampton, NY

11. Fall 2024 Waterbird Counter, Michigan Audubon, Paradise, MI

12. Communications Coordinator, Lowcountry Land Trust, Charleston, SC

13. Fall 2024 Wildlife Rehabilitation Internship, Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, Goleta, CA

14. Lecturer & Environmental Center Coordinator, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD

15. Senior Project Manager – Civil Engineer or Geomorphologist, Princeton Hydro, Trenton, NJ

16. Stewardship Associate Biologist, Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA

17. Executive Director, Adirondack Trail Improvement Society Inc, Keene Valley, NY

18. Junior Professional – Paralegal, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland

19. Grants Finance Officer, BESTLIFE2030, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Brussels, Belgium

20. Energy Policy Advisor- Center for Public Lands, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, Remote

21. Operations Coordinator, The Montana Land Reliance(MLR), Helena, MT

22. Strategic Environmental Analyst, Vattenfall, Solna, Sweden

23. Associate/Principal Environmental Planner, Epic Environmental, Sydney and NSW

24. Carbon Investments Manager, Conservation International, Multiple Locations

25. Africa Grasslands & Pastoralists Senior Manager, Conservation International, Gaborone-Botswana, Nairobi-Kenya, Johannesburg-South Africa

26. Project Communications Manager, Ocean Energy Europe, Brussels, Belgium

27. User Engagement & Partnership Specialist – CAMS NCP and Emissions Service, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Bonn, Germany

28. Senior Policy Adviser – Environment, American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU), Brussels, Belgium

29. Strategic Environmental Analyst, Vattenfall, Solna, Sweden

30. Associate/Principal Environmental Planner, Epic Environmental, Sydney and NSW

Internship & Volunteer Opportunities

1. Mandatory internship – Forest and Grassland, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Bonn, Germany

2. INTERNSHIP – Environmental Science Research, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Naples, FL

3. INTERNSHIP – Environmental Education, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Naples, FL

4. INTERNSHIP – von Arx Wildlife Hospital, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Naples, FL

5. INTERNSHIP – Burmese Python Research, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Naples, FL