Katie Wintersgill
Location: Goderich, Ontario
Hosting Organization: Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation
Description:
As a Coastal Stewardship Assistant, CCC members will assist staff in implementing the Centre’s Great Lakes stewardship projects. This will involve organizing and attending community events, delivering presentations to all ages on coastal conservation issues, and communicating with volunteers. Some occasional field work may be conducted as well, working on restoration projects in Lake Huron’s coastal wetlands and sand dunes. Additional project work will involve data management, preparing educational and advertising materials, and report writing. This placement will provide the participant with the opportunity to develop a wide variety of professional skills to further their career in the environmental field.
Timeline: Sept 3 – Nov 22
Emma Connell
Location: Moose Jaw, Sask
Hosting Organization: Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation
Description:
• Research in Candle Lake with Saskatchewan Polytechnic
• Density of oxygen testing and data entry
• Assist with the national archery in the schools program
• Perform habitat assessments (quads)
• Help develop programming for the Women’s Outdoor Weekend
• Help develop fisheries programming for schools
• Help host the Youth Conservation Leadership initiative (mini ccc) for cohort 2
• Help prepare for the Advancing Women in Conservation Summit
• Fisheries assessments (fish transfers, test netting, ootilith extraction)
Timeline: Sept 3 – Nov 22
Mitchell Dunn
Location: Goderich, Ontario
Hosting Organization: Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation
Description:
As a Coastal Stewardship Assistant, CCC members will assist staff in implementing the Centre’s Great Lakes stewardship projects. This will involve organizing and attending community events, delivering presentations to all ages on coastal conservation issues, and communicating with volunteers. Some occasional field work may be conducted as well, working on restoration projects in Lake Huron’s coastal wetlands and sand dunes. Additional project work will involve data management, preparing educational and advertising materials, and report writing. This placement will provide the participant with the opportunity to develop a wide variety of professional skills to further their career in the environmental field.
Timeline: Sept 3 – Nov 22
Kristin Christensen
Location: Kanata, ON
Hosting Organization: Canadian Wildlife Federation
Description: Field experience includes: become trained in seed collection (locate, collect, and clean seeds of native plants), data collection, assisting in monitoring of pollinator plots, and helping to build equipment to clean seeds. Additional experience includes Public Outreach and Education, participating in and/or leading community seed collection events, compiling information for communications products on habitat restoration, research and development of documents used in education.
Timeline: Sept 3 – Nov 22
Dominique Mieguim Mgninpogni
Location: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Hosting Organization: Clean Foundation: Northumberland Strait Coastal Restoration Project
Description:
Amongst their many learning experiences, the interns will help with organizing and delivering events with project partners, conduct monitoring and assessment work with project team members, participate in the monitoring of soil, hydrology and vegetative systems of tidal Travel to field sites to collect data and samples.
Timeline: Sept 3 – Nov 22
Donovan Roberts
Location: Kanata, ON
Hosting Organization: Canadian Wildlife Federation
Description: Field experience includes: become trained in seed collection (locate, collect, and clean seeds of native plants), data collection, assisting in monitoring of pollinator plots, and helping to build equipment to clean seeds. Additional experience includes Public Outreach and Education, participating in and/or leading community seed collection events, compiling information for communications products on habitat restoration, research and development of documents used in education.
Timeline: Sept 3 – Nov 22
David Appolon
Location: Kanata, ON
Hosting Organization: Canadian Wildlife Federation
Description:
Field experience includes: become trained in seed collection (locate, collect, and clean seeds of native plants), data collection, assisting in monitoring of pollinator plots, and helping to build equipment to clean seeds. Additional experience includes Public Outreach and Education, participating in and/or leading community seed collection events, compiling information for communications products on habitat restoration, research and development of documents used in education.
Timeline: Sept 3 – Nov 22
Hayden Baker
Location: Surrey, BC
Hosting Organization: BC Wildlife Federation
Description:
Placement will include a 7-day intensive training in wetland conservation in the West Kootenays, including opportunity to work along-side renowned wetland restoration expert Tom Biebighauser. Placements will also have the opportunity to meet additional wetland experts, to be involved in wetland planting events, site restoration projects, measuring effectiveness of restoration efforts, conduct wetland research and community engagement.
Timeline: Sept 3 – Nov 22
Riley Watts
Location: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Hosting Organization: Clean Foundation: Northumberland Strait Coastal Restoration Project
Description:
Amongst their many learning experiences, the interns will help with organizing and delivering events with project partners, conduct monitoring and assessment work with project team members, participate in the monitoring of soil, hydrology and vegetative systems of tidal Travel to field sites to collect data and samples.
Timeline: Sept 3 – Nov 22
ShanShan Tian
Location: Surrey, BC
Hosting Organization: BC Wildlife Federation
Description:
Placement will include a 7-day intensive training in wetland conservation in the West Kootenays, including opportunity to work along-side renowned wetland restoration expert Tom Biebighauser. Placements will also have the opportunity to meet additional wetland experts, to be involved in wetland planting events, site restoration projects, measuring effectiveness of restoration efforts, conduct wetland research and community engagement.
Timeline: Sept 3 – Nov 22
