BU Geography & Environment

Career Development

Many new job and volunteer opportunities are sent by e-mail once to twice a week. If you would like to start receiving these e-mails, please e-mail Sayaka Yamaki at syamaki@bu.edu.

New Opportunities

Recent Geography & CEES Student Internship Agencies

The following are sites where undergraduate Geography/CEES students have completed paid and unpaid internships.

Office of Technical Assistance for Toxic Use Reduction (OTA) - Boston, MA

Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services - Rockville, MD

Massachusetts Water Resource Authority - Boston, MA

Susquehanna River Basin Commission - Harrisburg, PA

Merrimack Valley Planning Commission - Haverhill, MA

New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission - Lowell, MA

Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management - Boston. MA

New England Aquarium - Boston, MA

Alternatives for Community and Environment - Roxbury, MA

Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution) - Washington, DC

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection - Boston, MA

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management - Boston, MA

White House Council on Environmental Quality - Washington, DC

Center for Oceanic Research and Education - Gloucester, MA

Ecologic Development Fund - Cambridge, MA

US Senate-Washington, DC

Senator Kerry’s Boston Office - Boston, MA

Senator Max Baucus, MT - Washington, DC

New York State Parks - Long Island, NY

The Climate Institute -Washington, DC

Environmental Futures, Inc. - Boston, MA

The Nature Conservancy - Boston, MA

The Wilderness Society - Boston, MA

Deep Portage Conservation Reserve - Hackensack, MN

Environmental & Energy Study Institute - Washington, DC

Environmental Protection Agency - Washington, DC

Environmental Jobs/Internships web sites

Policy web sites

  • Moving Ideas: Policy Action Network Jobs http://www.movingideas.org/jobs/

State web sites

GIS-related web sites

Energy web sites

Environmental Career Exploration web sites

  • Environmental Career Descriptions
  • Resources for Exploring Environmental Careers http://offices.colgate.edu/career/environmental/default.html
  • The Federal Job Search http://www.pratt.lib.md.us/slrc/job/fedgov.html

Volunteer Opportunities

*If you have had a CEES/Geography-related internship, please fill out a Student Internship Record and return to Sayaka Yamaki in STO 143.