Internships are a required element of the environmental studies major. During the pre-internship seminar (ENST 3988) students explore their interests, learn about the process of finding an internship, and learn from previous students about their recent internship experiences. Following the pre-internship seminar, students work individually with the environmental studies internship coordinator to identify specific opportunities.
After completing the internship, students enroll in the post-internship seminar (ENST 3989) to process their experience through reflective writing and presentations, and interacting with students in the pre-internship seminar.
Selected organizations with which our students have in recent years interned or engaged in field or research experiences include:
Agriculture and Food
- Baker’s Acres (Avon, MN)
- Earthrise Farms (Madison, MN)
- Lakeside Prairie Farm (Elbow Lake, MN)
- Land Stewardship Project (Montevideo, MN)
- Living Song Farm (Hutchinson, MN)
- Moonstone Farm
- Morris Healthy Eating (Morris, MN)
- Mount Vernon Farm
- Permaculture Research Institute for a Cold Climate (Minneapolis, MN)
Research Experiences
Conserving potato diversity in the Andean Altiplano (student-designed project)
- Harvard Forest
- Michigan State University REU-ecotoxicology
- Southern Illinois University REU-Cache River Macroinvertebrates
- University of Minnesota/Salish Kootenai College REU-Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Blue Camas
- USDA North Central Soil Conservation Laboratory (Morris, MN)
- USDA National Agricultural Library (Beltsville, MD)
- UMM Summer Research with UMM faculty (salamander telemetry, forestry)
Conservation and Water Resources
- Great River Greening (Minneapolis, MN)
- Isanti County Soil and Water Conservation District, Conservation Corps Minnesota (Cambridge, MN)
- Pomme de Terre River Association (Morris, MN)
- Pope County Soil and Water Conservation District, Conservation Corps Minnesota (Glenwood, MN)
- USFWS Wetlands Management District Office (Detroit Lakes, MN)
Environmental/Outdoor Education and Leadership
- Minnesota Zoo (Apple Valley, MN)
- National Outdoor Leadership Program (Alaska, Colorado)
- Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center (Spicer, MN)
- Wilderness Inquiry (St. Paul, MN)
- Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center (Finland, MN)
Others
- Marshall Avenue Green Streets Initiative (St. Paul, MN)
- Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (Morris/Minneapolis MN)
- Minnesota Green Corps (Morris, MN)
- Scream Agency (Denver, CO)
- UMM Center for Small Towns (Morris, MN)
- UMM Office of Sustainability (Morris, MN)
- Vosumnotfo (Swaziland)
- West Central Research and Outreach Center (Morris, MN)