Name: Jack Ackerman
Major: Politics
Class: 2011
Internship Title: Communications Intern at Regional Community Forest Training
Principal Faculty Advisor: n/a
Location: Regional Community Forest Training (RECOFTC), Bangkok, Thailand

Project Summary:  In this internship, I helped develop strategic communications materials for RECOFTC, an environmental non-profit based in Bangkok.  In developing these materials, I visited rural, community forestry villages where RECOFTC programs were active and interviewed local residents.  I compiled my research into brochures and into the organization's annual report.  My work also assisted in the production of a marketing video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SORScA9vmrk)

Name: Hannah Barkley
Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Class: 2011
Internship Title: The Effects of Climate Change on Coral Reproduction and Recruitment
Principal Faculty Advisor: Dr. Samantha de Putron, Associate Research Scientist, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS)
Location: Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Bermuda

Project Summary:  This summer I worked in the de Putron Lab at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences studying the impacts of global warming, specifically ocean acidification and increased ocean temperature, on coral reproduction and recruitment. Previous studies have documented the repercussions on adult coral, namely decreased skeletal calcification and increased bleaching, but little research has been conducted on the effects on young coral. I also looked at whether the addition of nutrients could potentially offset the stress on the coral caused by these conditions. To do this, I collected adult corals from the reef and gathered the larvae they released. I then raised the young coral recruits under combinations of decreased pH, increased temperature, and elevated nutrient levels to determine what effect predicted climate change and nutrient supplementation might have on the viability of young coral. Although thorough analysis of coral growth and health under each condition is pending completion, this study has already shown that impending climate change will likely seriously endanger the success of coral recruits, which in turn threatens the long term survival of coral reefs.

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Name: Alexander Brady
Major: Comparative Literature
Class: 2010
Internship Title: The Importance of Native Species
Principal Faculty Advisor: n/a
Location: D&R Greenway Land Trust, Princeton, NJ

Project Summary: This summer I worked mainly in the removal of invasive species from D&R Greenway's nature preserves. We targeted plants such as multiflora rose, purple loosestrife, and ailanthus (among many others) and employed various eradication methods, including cut-stump herbicide application, hack-and-drip herbicide application, and even the release of biocontrol beetles, in conjunction with the NJ department of agriculture. I worked alongside my two bosses, fellow intern, volunteer groups, and on one occasion helped to lead volunteers from a corporate group, as well as participated in actions under the auspices of the Central New Jersey invasive species strike team. Along with these main duties, I spent one to two days a week working in D&R Greenway’s Native Plant Nursery, where they grow NJ native plants in part of a comprehensive land rehabilitation strategy, re-planting natives in areas where invasives have been removed. I worked, as well, in a D&R Greenway park in Bordentown, and Trenton’s Cadwalader Park, removing invasives and landscaping for public use. In the final month of my internship, I created a website for the Native Plant Nursery (http://drgreenway.org/nursery/thenursery.html) in order to raise awareness about the importance of native plants as well as promote the biannual plant sales that the organization will be holding as a fundraiser.

Name: Kelsey Brooks
Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Class: 2011
Internship Title: Using the Past to Preserve the Future–The Role of Archives in the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
Principal Faculty Advisor: Gary Krupnick, The National Museum of Natural History
Location: National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC

Project Summary: The National Herbarium, housed at the National Museum of Natural History, contains approximately 5 million plant specimens. Currently, only a fraction of these specimens has been electronically catalogued, an important step in much of the research that is currently being done there. The project I worked on this summer was concerned with using the herbarium’s collection, once digitized, to expedite the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation’s goal of having a preliminary conservation assessment for all plant species by 2010.

To accomplish this, an algorithm was developed by my advisor and his colleagues that uses the historical data present in the herbarium to determine current species abundance. The number of specimens in the collection, along with when and where they were collected, is used to filter each species into one of three categories: not threatened, possibly threatened, or extinct. By creating these rough distinctions this approach has the potential to more efficiently determine which species may be at risk and require the attention of conservationists.

My role in the project was to prepare the herbarium’s collection of West Indian Poaceae for analysis by digitizing the relevant information. During my ten weeks at the museum I was able to catalogue approximately 3,500 specimens. While this was only a portion of the herbarium’s West Indian Poaceae and the digitization of the family will have to be completed before it can be used, I am pleased to have spent my summer positively contributing to an effort that may improve global plant conservation practices.

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Name: Martina Car
Major: Anthropology
Class: 2010
Internship Title: Provisioning Ecosystem Services in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
Principal Faculty Advisor: Alan Mann
Location: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, France

Project Summary: Ecosystem services play an important role in multiple aspects of human wellbeing from providing people with such vital materials as food and water, to producing a healthy physical environment and a place for good social relations, to helping people feel secure and promoting freedom of choice and action. Services, such as the capacity of the soil to purify water, the contribution of pollinators to angiosperm reproduction and crop yield, and the role that pristine natural landscapes play in cultural or religious traditions, have been considered free for centuries. Such a perception unfortunately permits the unregulated exploitation of many natural resources. Increasing pressures from human development require innovative solutions that promote the sustainable use of ecosystem services and the use of alternative sources of income for communities which depend on degraded services for their livelihood. UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, as “living laboratories” for sustainable development, are particularly suited to innovative ecosystem service management approaches.

Unfortunately, biosphere reserve management committees and stakeholders are often not aware of ecosystem services or how to preserve them. My assignment as an intern for The Man and the Biosphere Program was to create a database of ecosystem service management approaches undertaken in biosphere reserves so far, as to ultimately create a collection of case studies that could provide valuable examples for biosphere reserve management worldwide. Through various methods of research, mainly reading publications, online documentation, and consulting experts in the field, I assembled case studies from across the world, with a particular focus on Payment for Ecosystem Service (PES) schemes. Pulling together detailed management-oriented examples from biosphere reserves that describe mechanisms for dialogue, stakeholders, payment mechanisms, costs and benefits, etc…, my project aimed to present very accessible guidelines to using ecosystem services in a holistic management approach in biosphere reserves,  so as to simultaneously preserve the environment and promote sustainable development.

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Name: Raymond Brusca
Major: Woodrow Wilson School
Class: 2011
Internship Title: Field and Lab Research Technician in Environmental Science
Principal Faculty Advisor: Eileen Zerba
Location: Princeton, NJ

Project Summary: My internship project focused on monitoring water quality and ecological balance across the University and within the surrounding Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed, especially Lake Carnegie.  Specifically, my project investigated how land use changes, driven by the Campus and Sustainability Master plans, will impact the biological, chemical, and physical characteristics, and, thereby health, of Lake Carnegie and the surrounding watershed, especially the Washington Road Stream.

Name: Matthew Costa
Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Class: 2011
Internship Title: Lunar Periodicity and Reproductive Ecology of the Coral Porites Astreoides
Principal Faculty Advisor: Dr. Samantha de Putron, Associate Research Scientist, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
Location: Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Bermuda

Project Summary: I was one of two PEI interns in the lab of Dr. Samantha de Putron, a coral ecologist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences.  I worked with Julia Lawson, a returning intern in the de Putron lab from Dalhousie University, on a project focused on the lunar timing of the reproduction of Porites astreoides, a reef-building coral native to Bermuda.  We collected adult colonies from two hand-picked sites, where the reef is exposed to very different light and sedimentation levels.  Over two lunar cycles in July and August, we observed the reproductive cycle of these colonies by counting the number of larvae released by each colony each night.  We sought to discover relationships between several variables and the lunar timing of release, including the size of the larvae, the size and growth rates of spat (the new coral polyps into which the larvae develop), and the density in the larvae of zooxanthellae (the photosynthesizing, single-celled symbionts that allow coral to derive energy from sunlight).  A major focus of our experiment was to study differences in the reproductive strategies of corals from reefs subjected to different sets of conditions, to gain insight into the potential for coral reefs to adapt to the increasingly changing ocean ecosystem.  Dr. de Putron plans on incorporating our results into a paper to be submitted for publication.  In addition to the chance to work on such a fascinating research topic, this internship has granted me the opportunity to explore the beautiful island of Bermuda, to learn to SCUBA dive, and to live and work in the unique and exciting intellectual community at BIOS. 

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Name: Justin Frick
Major: English
Class: 2010
Internship Title: A Green Summer in Princeton–Sustainability and Dining Services
Principal Faculty Advisor: Stu Orefice, Dining Services
Location: Dining Services, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Project Summary: My internship revolved around two main components. First, I tracked the sustainability of Dining Services purchases over the past year, in an effort to increase the amount of sustainable purchasing for the next year. In addition, I visited local farms that Dining Services receives food from, and created short videos, which will soon be up on the Dining Services website, in addition to a map showing all of the local providers Dining Services purchases from.

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Name: Jessica Gu
Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Class: 2012
Internship Title: Detecting Human Fecal Pollution in Bermuda
Principal Faculty Advisor: Rachel Parsons, Bermuda Institute of Oceanic Sciences (BIOS)
Location: Bermuda Institute of Oceanic Sciences, Bermuda

Project Summary: My project is about using molecular methods to detect human fecal pollution in Bermuda's Coastal waters.  We use a human-specific primer for a PCR reaction that only amplifies DNA from a bacteria called Bacteroides Prevotella that lives in the human gut.  If this DNA is detected in water samples from around Bermuda, that indicates there is fecal pollution in the water from sewage outfalls or boreholes particularly contributed by human waste. 

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Name: Chloe Hall
Major: Religion
Class: 2011
Internship Title: "Greening" Jishou–Summer of Service
Principal Faculty Advisor: Kai Evenson, Princeton in Asia (PIA)
Location: Princeton in Asia, China

Name: Justine E. Hausheer
Major: English
Class: 2010
Internship Title: Web-Based Solutions to Biodiversity: The Encyclopedia of Life
Principal Faculty Advisor: N/A
Location: Encyclopedia of Life, Washington, DC

Project Summary: At the Encyclopedia of Life, I served as the Science Writing Intern. My main task was to draft articles about EOL for other publications. I also spent a significant amount of time working on our quarterly newsletter, EOLetter. I also maintained a media database, keeping track of each time Encyclopedia of Life was mentioned in a news publication anywhere in the world. Lastly, I performed general office tasks.

At the Trust for Public Land, I worked for both the Center for Land and Water and the Center for City Park Excellence. For the Center for Land and Water, I drafted case study reports of our Greenprinting projects for brochures and other publications. I also drafted responses to RFP’s and RFQ’s for open space plans. Lastly, I researched upcoming projects and assessed their viability. For the Center for City Park Excellence, I conducted research on community gardening, and verified the accuracy of our recent Parks survey.

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Name: Melissa Ilardo
Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Class: 2011
Internship Title: Reef Sediment Microbiology
Principal Faculty Advisor: Eric Gaidos, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Location: University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii

Project Summary: This summer I was helping to continue the reef sediment microbiology research of Eric Gaidos at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. We collected samples of reef sediment at the Kaneohe bay on the Island of Oahu.  From these samples we were able to extract solutions containing microbial cell populations that we then ran through filters.  Using a process called FISH (fluorescent in situ hybridization) we were able to label specific microbes on filter sections with specific RNA probes and measure the number of each subset (for example Nitrosomonadales) compared to the relative number of cells on the filter.  Certain subsets participate in the nitrogen cycles in different ways, and we hoped to gather information about the nitrogen cycle in this particular bay based on how many cells of each population we observed. The results were inconclusive with a high margin of error, mostly due to the FISH process.

Name: Lucile Jarry
Major: Undecided/Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Class: 2012
Internship Title: Caribbean Environmental Health Institute
Principal Faculty Advisor: Luisa Silva-Duarte
Location: Caribbean Environmental Health Institute, Saint Lucia

Project Summary: Tasks at the Caribbean Environmental Health Institute were varied: interns helped log information gathered by CEHI researchers via Access, assisted lab staff in routine testing of resort waters against recreational standards, summarized lengthy documents for online abstracts, and hiked the Fond d’Or watershed with St Lucia Forestry Department staff to locate sources of pollution. A common activity in both routine testing and field work in the watershed was water quality testing for pH, temperature, chlorine, dissolved oxygen, microbial contamination and other sources of pollution; the lab procedures were explained the first weeks of the internship, and reinforced in the field. Office work required some proficiency with the MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access) but also provided skills in database manipulation and in executive summary creation. Finally, the organization staff made it very easy to learn more about the culture and ecology of the island, including an overnight turtle-watching trip on the eastern coast and a day hike through the rainforest.

Name: Joseph Jung
Major: Sociology
Class: 2011
Internship Title: Gandhian Development
Principal Faculty Advisor: n/a
Location: Gandhian Development, India

Project Summary:  I composed a status report on social, economic, and environmental development in village called Bed, in rural Rajasthan. I made six trips to the field over seven weeks, interviewing NGO workers and local villagers through a translator about the status and impact of projects like communal pasture lands, water and soil conservation, womens empowerment, youth centers, and common village funds. I established relationships with some zonal workers and local villagers that allowed me to also ask about deeper social issues like the caste system. What resulted was a comprehensive overview of Bed village that will help the organization understand the area more and move on towards future development projects.

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Name: Matthew Katz
Major: Economics
Class: 2011
Internship Title: Junior Project Researcher
Principal Faculty Advisor: n/a
Location: Cusco, Peru

Project Summary: My project revolved around establishing a baseline of our clientele with which we could base the progress of our educational programs on in the future. To establish this baseline, I oversaw a team of surveyors who worked out in the field performing hour long surveys. Also, I was in charge of putting together a method to digitize the communal bank and client information. With over 1200 banks in the Cusco region, the digitizing project was a big undertaking and involved a lot of collaborating and coordinating with others.

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Name: Samuel Fox Krauss
Major: Philosophy
Class: 2010
Internship Title: Bioversity International, Magazine intern
Principal Faculty Advisor: n/a
Location: Bioversity International, Rome, Italy

Project Summary: I worked for Bioversity International, an international research and advocacy organization committed to agricultural biodiversity.  My job was content development and editing for the organization's yearly publication, Geneflow.

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Name: David Kwabi
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Class: 2010
Internship Title: Harmonizing the Practice of Ocean Observation
Principal Faculty Advisor: n/a
Location: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Paris, France

Project Summary: My internship was with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
(IOC) in Paris, France. I spent the first 3 weeks credentialing and ensuring a quorum of member state representatives at the GOOS and IOC general assemblies. I also assisted with writing the reports for both conferences.

I spent the next 5 weeks learning PHP and SQL - web programming languages - and then reprogramming a pre-existing, but then defunct website that displayed member state representative contact information.
I was able to dynamically link the website to a bank of IOC databases that held this information. The website also displayed the member states accorded to a color-coded scheme that reflected their IOC groupings.

There is a need within the IOC for communication among member states that would be useful to policy-making, and rationalizing member state groupings, so hopefully, my work should go toward addressing these two objectives.

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Name: Yuri Larrabee
Major: Economics and Finance. Certificate in Environmental Studies.
Class: 2011
Internship Title: Land Stewardship Internship with D&R Greenway
Principal Faculty Advisor: n/a
Location: D&R Green Land Trust, Princeton, NJ

Project Summary: During my internship this summer, I worked closely alongside the two land stewards at D&R Greenway, Central New Jersey's Land Trust. I assisted with the stewards' everyday activities, which mainly consisted of invasive non-native species removal, native plant nursery work, and conservation easement monitoring. During the last 3 weeks of the internship, I was given some time to work on an individual project. I designed a poster on some of the neotropic migratory birds of the Sourlands Mountain region in Central New Jersey. I gave information on 13 of these birds and constructed a post and frame so that hikers and walkers could learn about these birds while walking on one of D&R Greenway's properties. The whole internship experience was very rewarding and I learned much about land trusts' and stewards' integral role in land preservation and conservation. I also learned the importance of maintaining preserved land through stewardship activities in order to promote and preserve the biodiversity of both flora and fauna.

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Name: Yuanbo Liu
Major: Sociology
Class: 2010
Internship Title: Sustainable Fisheries Management, Trade and Agriculture Directorate
Principal Faculty Advisor: n/a
Location: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Paris, France

Project Summary: As a stagiaire of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Fisheries Division of the OECD, my responsibilities were to research and analyze the approaches and policies for rebuilding fishieres in Regional Management Fisheries Organizations, to draft a shapter on Regional Fisheries Management Organziation for OECD publication, for an inventory of national and international approaches to fisheries rebuilding, and research and develop case studies of fisheries rebuildling plans, including those in developing countries. I created documents, compiling information as the basis for such analysis and for circulation to contacts in the Regional Management Fisheries Organzations for validation and completion, and researched suggestions made by consultants and made recommendations based on my research. I also reviewed options for European Union and United States case studies and developed those as well.

Name: Henry Loevner
Major: Politics
Class: 2011
Internship Title: Friends of Princeton Open Space Nature Preserve Stewardship
Principal Faculty Advisor: Stephen Hiltner, Natural Resources Manager, Friends of Princeton Open Space
Location: Friends of Princeton Nursery Lands, Princeton, NJ

Project Summary: I worked to maintain biodiversity within the preserve.  My chief responsibility was to eliminate populations of invasive herbaceous species.  Mr. Hiltner and I also cultivated native plants in the Mountain Lakes greenhouse to be planted in the field. 

Name: Darcie Ryan
Major: Geosciences
Class: 2010
Internship Title: Trichodesmium Response to Climate Change
Principal Faculty Advisor: Francois Morel
Location: Bermuda

Project Summary:  I investigated the effects of ocean acidification on trichodesmium, a diazotrophic cyanobacteria that lives in the subtropical and tropical Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Because they fix nitrogen and contribute to the ocean carbon pump, the future heartiness and behavior of Trichodesmium as average surface ocean acidity increases are important environmental variables. With assistance from Professors Francois Morel and Mike Lomas, and Princeton graduate student Dalin Shi, I collected Trichodesmium thiebautii field samples from the North Atlantic Ocean.  Bacterial colonies then incubated in three discrete pH levels: 8.1 (contemporary average surface ocean pH), 7.8 (estimated pH for 2100), and 8.4 (pre-industrial scenario).  The experiment was repeated throughout June, July, and August.  After incubation, samples were analyzed for particulate nitrogen, particulate carbon, particulate phosphate, nitrogen fixation rate, carbon fixation rate, and chlorophyll a concentration per colony.

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Name: Erin Sherman
Major: Psychology
Class: 2011
Internship Title: Political Climate–Watching Stakeholders Watching Waxman
Principal Faculty Advisor: n/a
Location: House of Representatives, Washington, DC

Project Summary: The intern followed climate legislation though the House of Representatives and Senate, attending relevant hearings and meetings around the Capitol. She prepared several memoranda on such meetings, including collaborative projects with other research fellows and a capstone memorandum on the past, present, and plausible future scientific, policy, and political issue of emissions from land use change induced by biofuel production.

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Name: Eric Stern
Major: Woodrow Wilson School
Class: 2011
Internship Title: Outreach Intern at the New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV)
Principal Faculty Advisor: n/a
Location: New York League of Conservation Voters, New York, NY

Project Summary: As the NYLCV outreach intern, I was given tremendous responsibility in developing and implementing the organization's summer outreach plan. I used my familiarity with NYC politics and demographics to help the organization with their goal of making environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and voters by evaluating incumbent performance and endorsing and electing environmental leaders to office in New York State. When looking to increase our volunteer base in the north Bronx, I traveled to a science high school in the district and spoke to students in an environmental justice class. When trying to increase our membership base, I coordinated tabling events at greenmarkets, parks and the annual Heritage of Pride Festival. When looking for potential new donors, I ran an outreach table at an event for affluent young professionals on the upper west side of Manhattan. When touting our scorecard that objectively rated the environmental records of NY City Council members, I tabled at the gates of City Hall Park to ensure that politicians could see that they were accountable for their votes. No matter the outreach objective, the responsibility for implementation laid with me. As the point person on outreach, it was my task to ensure we had sufficient volunteers and supplies for each initiative. In addition to coordinating the outreach effort, I also engaged in editorial writing, blogging, phonebanking, preparing talking points for media events, writing candidate environmental profiles and editing publications. In summary, interning with the NYLCV was an excellent experience.

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Name: Kit Thayer
Major: History
Class: 2011
Internship Title: A Communications Conundrum: China, the Environment and the Media
Principal Faculty Advisor: Kai Evenson (PIA)
Location: Natural Resources Defense Council, Beijing, China

Project Summary : NRDC is a leading environmental NGO which has been working in China for the past decade. The internship involves working with the Communications team of NRDC's Beijing office, working to increase awareness of media coverage of the NGO and helping organize public relations events. 

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Name: Kathleen Wade
Major: Woodrow Wilson School
Class: 2011
Internship Title: Urban Sustainability in Developing India
Principal Faculty Advisor: n/a
Location: Parisar, Pune, India

Project Summary: This summer, I worked with a local non-profit organization, Parisar, on sustainable development as it relates to transportation policy in Pune, India. Along with a college-age Indian intern, I directed the 'Cycle for Pune' program, which aims to raise awareness about urban development strategies and the role bicycling can play in bringing about a more livable, developed city. We facilitated, and then presented workshops about Pune's current development trajectory to 7th-10th grade students in Pune schools. Afterwards, the students and principals sent a form letter and petition to the local government asking for better bicycling infrastructure so that students can cycle to school safely. In five weeks, we gave eight workshops at six schools, reaching 1300 children and collecting 2500 surveys from students and parents about cycling in the city. I also did considerable work systematizing Parisar's methods of operation. I designed and managed new forms and a spreadsheet for organizing information about participating schools, updated our surveys, and devised a system for recording and evaluating our workshops throughout the summer. My co-worker and I also completed a manual documenting our procedures so that new interns can successfully continue the 'Cycle for Pune' program during the fall. 

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Name: Chenyu Zheng
Major: Economics
Class: 2012
Internship Title: From Earth's Hope to TEDxPedition
Principal Faculty Advisors: Michael Collins '07 and Leon Chen.
Location: Environmental Education Media Project for China, Beijing, China

Project Summary: I interned in Beijing first as a Communications intern at Environmental Education Media Project for China (EEMP) for three weeks. But due to the organization's obligation to go to Mongolia for a World Bank film on energy sector, I got transferred to work as the Director of TEDxPedition, a countrywide expedition(Sept. 4th to 20th) with multiple regional conferences under the official license of TED (www.ted.com). While at Earth's Hope, my responsibilities included researching and writing letters to potential sponsors for a new film Earth's Hope, compiling film distributor list, publicizing EEMP documentaries in Ghana, preparing for EEMP's North Korea trip to promote sustainable building as well as translating sponsor letters and key documents into Chinese. These tasks have given me a good scope into a start-up NGO and allowed me to  better understand the urgency and challenges in communicating sustainability in China and around the World. In the later phase of my internship, I assisted Leon Chen of Oxford to organize TEDxPedition in China, including four conferences in Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu and Beijing. This green expedition involves visits to sustainable initiatives and case studies around China, such as the Loess Plateau Rehabilitation Project(also the main work of EEMP) and green business giant, Broad Airconditioning in Changsha. Our expedition goes across 9 provinces and extends over 2000 miles. In addition, the conferences focus on climate change, sustainability and social entrepreneurship. In Beijing, our conference themed around climate change: its challenges, solutions and opportunities. We engaged speakers such as Maurice Strong, former UN vice secretary and founder of UNEP and attracted participants from top universities in China and abroad. Organizing this event has showed a different yet effective way to communicate sustainability and to engage young minds to discuss and care about environmental problems.