ASHEVILLE AREA ENVIRONMENTAL INTERNSHIPS [updated April, 2011]

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1 ASHEVILLE AREA ENVIRONMENTAL INTERNSHIPS [updated April, 2011] NOTE: The following companies and agencies have expressed interest in working with UNCA Environmental Studies interns. Students may wish to contact other agencies or companies in the area with proposals for individual projects. Personnel information for listed agencies is available from the UNCA internship director. APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT Contact: 306 West Haywood Street Asheville, NC Phone: APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONFERENCE: Internships offer students a chance to work both in the office and in the field with professionals from resource management agencies and to become involved with the protection of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Contact: Field Representative Appalachian Trail Conference 160 Zillicoa St. Asheville, NC Phone: ASHEVILLE WASTE PAPER CO.: Contact: 304 Lyman St. Asheville, NC Phone: ASHEVILLE WATER AUTHORITY: Contact: Director Water Production Facilities North Fork Reservoir Rt. 1, Box 282 Black Mountain, NC Phone: BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: Internship projects to be worked out individually with the assistant superintendent. Contact: Assistant Superintendent Resources Management & Visitor Services Blue Ridge Parkway One Pack Square Asheville, NC Phone: BUNCOMBE COUNTY CIVIL PREPAREDNESS & EMERGENCY SERVICES: Responsible for planning for emergencies involving hazardous waste spills and other potentially disastrous environmental problems. Contact: Director Buncombe County Civil Preparedness Director 35 Woodfin St. Asheville, NC Phone: BUNCOMBE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Interns may work with county sanitarians in the regular conduct of their duties, or specific projects may be arranged when consistent with agency goals

2 and resources. Areas of interest include food, water, habitation and recreation sanitation, upon availability. Summertime - swimming pool water sampling. Contact: Director Environmental Health Services 35 Woodfin Street Asheville, NC Phone: BUNCOMBE COUNTY RECREATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT: Interns might work with projects for the river park system, do studies involving Lake Julian, and other appropriate projects. Contact: Director of Recreational Services Dept. Asheville Office Park 205 College St. Asheville, NC Phone: [Lucy Crown] BUNCOMBE COUNTY SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT: Educates the public on soil, water & other natural resource conservation issues. Contact: 31 College Place, B-210 Asheville, NC Phone: BUNCOMBE COUNTY SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT: Maintains the Buncombe County landfill and county recycling drop-off sites and works with the county recycling and composting efforts. Contact: 30 Valley Street Asheville, NC Phone: BUNCOMBE COUNTY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT: Contact: Jon Creighton, Erosion Control Phone: CLEAN WATER FUND: To help empower communities and individuals to fight environmental problems and injustice; program areas include water, toxics and air. Contact: 29 Page Ave. Asheville, NC Phone: THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, DIVISION OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE: Internships will be available during two time periods: January 18 through April 23, and May 17 through August 13. Each student will be expected to attend weekly meetings at the DENR Regional Office in Asheville lasting between one and three hours. However, in the first week participants will meet twice. Between meetings, the students will be responsible for fieldwork, data collection and general research. An average of 16 hours of work is expected each week. Contact: Community Planner Youth Advocacy Personnel Division of Community Assistance Dept. of Commerce Asheville, NC Raleigh, NC Phone: Phone: [Stephanie Matze] EARTH SERVICE CORPS. (YMCA): Offers internship programs for youth in environmental education (tree planting, rock climbing, snorkeling, camping trips, stream ecology, fish shocking, etc.). Contact: YMCA 201 Beaverdam Road Asheville, NC Phone: ECO (ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION) Contact: 121 Third Ave West, Suite 4 Hendersonville, NC Phone:

3 ELISHA MITCHELL AUDUBON SOCIETY: To promote an awareness and appreciation of nature, to preserve and protect wildlife and natural ecosystems and to encourage responsible environmental stewardship. Contact: P.O. Box Asheville, NC Phone: ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING SOLUTIONS, INC: Water testing laboratory Contact: 351 Depot Street P.O. Box 7565 Asheville, NC Phone: FUN SUN FARM: Organic farm Contact: 90 Bald Creek Rd Leicester, NC Phone: GeoWILD: Native plant nursery Contact: 59 Mills Place Asheville, NC Phone: HEALTH ADVENTURE: Projects might include updating and expanding environmental programs now conducted for children, developing and teaching new summer environmentally based program for children, or individual education-related projects as developed by intern. Contact: The Health Adventure 501 Biltmore Avenue P.O. Box 180 Asheville, NC Phone: [Stephanie] LAND OF SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL: Area Agency concerned with a variety of environmental planning issues. Responsibilities include collecting information about a variety of environmental programs. Contact: Land-of-Sky Regional Council 25 Heritage Drive Asheville, NC Phone: LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: To work toward a clean environment in Buncombe County and educate the public on limits of our natural resources. Contact: 221 Miles Building 2 Wall Street Asheville, NC Phone: LONG BRANCH ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER: Long Branch is a non-profit environmental education center in the Big Sandy Mush Creek Community outside Leicester, approximately 18 miles from Asheville. Projects might involve ecological agriculture, environmental design and permaculture, aquaculture, resource recycling and enterprise development, renewable energy and conservation, biological horticulture or environmental technology. Contact: Director Long Branch Environmental Education Center P.O. Box 369 FAX: Leicester, NC Phone: [Paul Galimore] METROPOLITAN SEWAGE DISTRICT: Internships to be arranged individually with director. Contact: Plant Supervisor P.O. Box 8969 Asheville, NC Phone: THE NAUHAUS INSTITUTE: internships for green building practices

4 Contact: 729 Haywood Road Asheville, NC Phone: NORTH CAROLINA ARBORETUM: Various plant-related positions. Contact: P.O. Box 6617 Asheville, NC Phone: NORTH CAROLINA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE - BUNCOMBE COUNTY CENTER: Provides educational programs for youth (6-18) and adults in the areas of 4-H, agriculture and home economics. Contact: 94 Coxe Ave. Asheville, NC Phone: NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT DIVISION: Projects might include updating of industrial site environment evaluations. Contact: Regional Manager 3 General Aviation Drive Fletcher, NC Phone: NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES/DIVISION OF AIR QUALITY: Contact: Air Quality Section NCDENR 2090 US 70 Swannanoa, NC Phone: NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, AREA LANDSCAPE ENGINEER: Students may work at part-time internships in the Asheville area with geotechnical fabrics for erosion control or in summer internships based in Raleigh office involving Environmental Impact Statements, work in soil testing laboratories, etc. Contact: N.C. DOT, Landscape Engineer 4142 Haywood Rd. Horse Shoe, NC Phone: NORTH CAROLINA FOREST RESOURCES: Interns would do growth and yield studies in Piedmont and mountain timber stands, somewhere within the eight county area served by the Asheville office. Contact: District Office 220 Sardis Rd. Asheville, NC Phone: County Office 220 Sardis Rd. Asheville, NC Phone: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: Seeking interns to work as extension entomology specialists and develop trial and working program in Integrated Pest Management, weed control, alternative crops, etc. Contact: Extension Entomology Specialist North Carolina State University Fletcher Experiment Station Fletcher, NC Phone: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF SOIL SCIENCE: Contact: Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Evaluation Center 2016 Fanning Bridge Rd.

5 Fletcher, NC Phone: OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION Provides free weatherization services to low income residents of Madison and Buncombe Counties. Contact: The Opportunity Corporation 25 Gaston Street Asheville, NC Phone: , Ext. 567 OSTARA FARM: Organic farm Contact: 448 Sugar Creek Rd. Leicester, NC Phone: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS: Contracts can be developed with individual teachers in area grade schools, junior high and high schools, both public and private, to develop environmental teaching programs. QUALITY FORWARD: A volunteer organization dedicated to initiating endeavors that enhance the environment and quality of life in Asheville and Buncombe County by sponsoring neighborhood cleanups, beautification projects and tree plantings. Contact: P.O. Box 22 Asheville, NC Phone: REEMS CREEK VALLEY NURSERY: Landscaping work. Contact: 70 Monticello Road Weaverville, NC Phone: RESOURCE DATA, INC./GIS ANALYSIS & CUSTOM MAPPING Contact: 34 Wall Street Asheville, NC Phone: RIVERLINK, INC.: Formed for the purpose of making the French Broad riverfront a vibrant part of recreational, cultural and economic community of greater Asheville. The organization is made up of people of diverse backgrounds who recognize the potential of the river. Contact: 170 Lyman St. Asheville, NC Phone: SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: Regional land trust working to protect natural, biological, scenic, recreational, cultural, historical lands for public benefit. Contact: 34 Wall Street, #802 Asheville, NC Phone: ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL: Interns might help develop an energy management system for the hospital, or work might be available with environmentalist on infection control. Contact: VP - Human Resources St. Joseph's Hospital 409 Biltmore Avenue Asheville, NC Phone: STATE CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION & ANALYSIS: Contact: Field Office Supervisor 2090 US 70 Swannanoa, NC Phone: [Linda Stamey]

6 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR, ENDANGERED SPECIES FIELD OFFICE: Summer field projects in areas from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi River possible. Some projects in Asheville may involve computer programming opportunities. Contact: Fish & Wildlife Service Endangered Species Field Office 160 Zillicoa St. Asheville, NC Phone: [Laura Rogers] U.S. FOREST SERVICE: Seeking interns for wildlife habitat and resource studies, vegetation surveys, and forest growth studies. Contact: U.S. Forest Service Bent Creek Research Station 1577 Brevard Rd. Asheville, NC Phone: , ext WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE: Seeking interns for study of effects of deforestation, water quality, and resource planning. Contact: 70 Woodfin Pl., #326 Asheville, NC Phone: WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATURE CENTER: Seeks environmental studies teacher for the summer with ability to design specific hands-on learning activities within broad theme areas. Applicant should have experience working with elementary age children in a school, day camp, or residential camp program. Also seeks nature camp assistant, preferably a college student with interest and experience working with children in a school or camp setting. Contact: WNC Nature Center 75 Gashes Creek Rd. Asheville, NC Phone: WILD FOR LIFE: CENTER FOR REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE: Contact: 33 Possum Trot Asheville, NC Phone: