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Last updated 8 December 2003
Keep checking. ALSO student generated announcements and comments will be posted on ePost.
Extended Lab
hours are:
12/5 5-9:00 PM
12/6,12/7,12/13, and 12/14 12:30-4:30 PM
Seattle Public Utilities IT Division is looking to immediately hire a couple of interns for GIS work next quarter. No specialized GIS knowldge is required. Lots of our majors have worked in this shop over the years, and all seemed very glad to have had the opportunity. For more information, contact Harvey Arnone, an alumni of this department: harvey.arnone@seattle.gov
Harvey would like to start seeing resumes immediately, hopes to interview next week, and get the interns started right after the first of the year. Pay is $14.47/hr, for 15-20 hrs. per week.
They ask for "Arch Info", but I suspect they mean
something else...
>Do you want to learn about community forestry? Working with
rural resource
>dependent communities? Community-focused and participatory
research?
>Do you want to apply your skills working with community-based
partnership
>groups working on watershed and forestry issues?
>
>FOREST COMMUNITY RESEARCH is offering internships in the winter
and summer
>of 2004. Interns will participate in community-focused research
and work
>on community-based resource management projects.
Responsibilities include
>working with resource-based partnership groups, and on tasks
associated
>with a research and education team. The successful applicant
is
>comfortable and effective working with diverse groups and
people and will
>have: completed an undergraduate degree or an advanced degree
and/or have
>experience in natural resources and the social sciences, experience
with
>or a strong interest in participatory research, and excellent
writing and
>organizational skills. Spanish speaking capability or Arch
Info skills a
>plus, but neither are required. This is an excellent opportunity
for
>someone with good interpersonal skills and who wants to learn
more and
>experience community-focused resource management. Some travel
is expected.
>Send cover letter, vita/résumé, names and phone
numbers of four people
>willing to serve as references, and a short writing sample
to: Internship,
>Forest Community Research, P.O. Box 11, Taylorsville,
>California 95983. The deadline for winter internship applications
is
>December 31.
>Forest Community Research is a non-profit organization
advancing community
>well-being, participatory community development and healthy,
sustainable
>ecosystems through research, education, and practice. The
primary focus of
>our research is on understanding resource dependent communities
and people
>and community well-being. Our approach examines and articulates
the
>integral relationship between community health and sustainable
resource
>management. Since 1993, we have worked toward bridging the
thinking
>between people with different-and at times competing-ideas
about resource
>issues. Forest Community Research is located in the rural
Northern Sierra
>town of Taylorsville, California, part of the Greater Indian
Valley
>Community. We also have a satellite office in Arcata, California.
>
>Forest Community Research work includes:
>. identifying and developing indicators to measure and assess
community
>well-being;
>. conducting assessments of rural community social issues
(e.g.,
>development, poverty, worker displacement);
>. facilitating, planning, and implementing applied research,
education,
>and dialogue to support and encourage community-based approaches
to
>socially, ecologically and economically sustainable development;
>. designing and facilitating public involvement activities;
>. advancing understanding of rural environmental and social
justice issues;
>. conducting participatory research, particularly with underserved
>groups;
>. providing education and training about the use of participatory
>research, evaluation, and monitoring to address social issues;
and
>. coordinating efforts among community groups locally and
across regions
>and states to better understand the interconnections between
community
>well-being and sustainable resource management.
>
>For more information about the organization check out our
web site
>www.FCResearch.org.
Open GIS has an internship program...
ESRI summer internships Apply by 5 March 2004? and conference studant assistantships. apply by May 2004.
ESRI wants me to announce their site, or to submit resumes (right now for December hiring) to jobs@esri.com, reference ED/AM...
Federal position (National Park Service in DC area, GS 9/11)
Lab hours; evening and weekend hours now posted.
Students in 460 may wish to use the resources of the ESRI Virtual Campus to brush up on some software skills or parallel the lab sessions. The course on ArcMap should be helpful for those without a background with this software.
The thrust of 460 will deal with Spatial Analyst and there is a course devoted to this. The first module is free, and you can obtain a free registration from the UW site (follow the procedure; policy statement). We cannot get free registrations for the courses that involve non-ESRI royalties (such as Penn State).
A forum for messages has been created using the Catalyst tool ePost. All students can post questions (and answer questions) on this forum. Please use this as a way to discuss potential topics for projects, ask for assistance with software, or ask questions about course content. TAs and the instructor will monitor the discussions and to answer what they can...
To access the ePost forum
The Sherman Lab is operated by Geography Department. There is a whole site dealing with the technology support functions. Lab hours will change over the quarter, typically to provide more hours towards the end when projects befuddle your mind. One element of importance to you is the Policy about printing.
This 460 page will not replicate what is posted there, but please note that requests for assistance should be done using that form (not running around trying to knock on doors...)