#38, May 23, 2025
Eric Zimmerman
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ES NEWS:
HAPPY 55th ANNIVERSARY Environmental Studies!!!
One of the oldest, largest, and most successful undergraduate
environmental
programs in the world.
• Review the ES
55th Celebration Events for this weekend
• Check out the History
of ES at UCSB on our History webpage
• Watch the 27 minute documentary : Building
a Movement: 50 Years of Environmental Studies at UCSB
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INDEX:
1) UCSB’s Your Children’s
Trees invites
you this SATURDAY, from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM,
as we volunteer
at Elings Park Growing Grounds (1298 Las Positas Rd).
2) The
Sustainability
Program is working with the UCSB Transportation Alternatives
Program (TAP) and
the Community Environmental Council (CEC) to host a workshop
on sustainable
commuting options in honor of National Bike Month.
- Wednesday, May 28th, 12:00 - 12:45 PM, UCEN Mission Room
3) UCSB
Lecture: “Making and
Unmaking the Wild: Nature,
Settler Colonialism,
and Socioecological Domination in the History of
Environmentalism“ by
David Meyer Temin, Associate Professor of Political
Science, and Native American Studies Program,
University of Michigan - May 29, Thursday, 4:00-5:30pm,
SSMS 2011
4) Local
Tour of Toxic
Sited in the Santa Barbara Ara for UCSB students
- Friday, May 30th, 2025 - 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM
- Free & transportation included
5) LOCAL INTERNSHIPS: Habitat Restoration Maintenance -- Storke Ranch Vernal Pools
6) Santa Barbara Channelkeeper - Water Quality Monitoring Internship
7) Internships with Sweet Wheel Farms & Santa Barbara Agriculture & Farm Education Foundation
8) Still
Figuring Out
Your Summer Plans? The Wild Rockies Field
Institute (WRFI)
invites
you to join our Restoration Ecology course—a unique,
immersive
academic
experience that takes your environmental education out into
the field.
- August 3-23, 2025 for 6 quarter units!
9) LOCAL
JOB
OPPENING: Stewardship
Coordinator at the
Isla Vista Recreation
and Park District.
2 0 hours a week!
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CONTENT:
1) UCSB’s Your Children’s Trees invites you this SATURDAY, from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM, as we volunteer at Elings Park Growing Grounds (1298 Las Positas Rd).
This local non-profit works to plant, grow, and care for trees throughout Santa Barbara County, especially in public areas. It's a great way to give back to our community while enjoying some time outdoors!
Also, don’t forget about our weekly BUNS volunteer events every SUNDAY at 9 AM. No prior experience is needed, but volunteers should be comfortable around animals. Shifts are first come, first served, so be sure to sign up using the Google Form linked here!
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to us at pwav...@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you soon!
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2) The Sustainability
Program is working with the UCSB Transportation Alternatives
Program (TAP) and
the Community Environmental Council (CEC) to host a workshop on
sustainable
commuting options in honor of National Bike Month.
- Wednesday, May 28th, 12:00 - 12:45 PM, UCEN Mission
Room
Sustainability will provide information about our campus sustainability goals and our Alternative Transit Challenge coming up in Fall 2025. In addition, the CEC will share information on EV incentives for staff and faculty.
Join us to learn how you can help reduce our campus GHG emissions. Snacks will be provided!
When: Wednesday, May 28th
Time: 12:00 - 12:45 PM
Location: UCEN Mission Room
Please RSVP here by May 23rd. We look forward to seeing you!
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3) UCSB Lecture: “Making and Unmaking the
Wild: Nature,
Settler Colonialism, and Socioecological Domination in the History
of
Environmentalism“ by David Meyer Temin, Associate Professor
of Political
Science, and Native American Studies Program, U. Mischigan
- May 29, Thursday, 4:00-5:30pm, SSMS 2011
Wages for Earthwork Abstract:
In this chapter, I tell an abbreviated history
aimed at
theorizing how the practice of valuing “nature” in modern
(originally western)
environmentalism—and the field that has come to be known as
“conservation” in
particular—has been shaped by imperial and colonial practices. I
particularly
focus on the coercive dispossession of Indigenous peoples in North
America and
the permanent occupation of their lands by an invading settler
population
(“settler colonialism”). Whereas scholars of settler colonialism
in political
theory have often thought of these processes primarily in terms of
generating
private property and/or sovereignty, this chapter draws on
longstanding work by
anthropologists, historians, and geographers to show how settler
colonialism
has also generated “nature” understood as wilderness in the form
of national
parks carved out of a public domain that is equally the product of
colonial
conquest and dispossession. I theorize this process
as wilderness-formation,
or making the wild. In tracing this process, I aim to rethink
settler
colonialism itself as a form of socioecological domination
premised not only on
the dispossession of “land” and its transformation into “property”
but also the
erasure and replacement of entire adaptive systems,
responsibilities, and
relations that have allowed Indigenous peoples and other
dispossessed subjects
to generate their own expressions of self-determination.
Altogether, this
chapter allows me to interpret a significant strain of
contemporary
environmentalism as continuous with the project of making the
wild. In turn, it
enables an understanding of Indigenous resurgence and peasant
environmental
justice struggles as projects of unmaking the wild to establish
ways of
living well that (necessarily) encompass both human and non-human
nature
together.
David Myer Temin is a political theorist, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Native American Studies Program faculty at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. His research explores how the diverse strands of global anticolonial thought help to reconsider central dilemmas of social and environmental justice in empire’s wake, as well as refashioning political concepts such as sovereignty and land. Temin's first book, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2023),
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4) Local Tour of Toxic
Sited in the Santa
Barbara Ara for UCSB students
- Friday, May 30th, 2025 - 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM
- Free & transportation included
We're taking three vanloads of UCSB students out to Oxnard next
Friday, May
30th, where they'll meet up with CAUSE staff and visit several
sites to learn
about the envi injustices nearby community members face, as well
as how
the residents are responding to these threats.
We have room for 24 more students, and want to have as many students as possible benefit from this amazing opportunity! Most students don't get too far from campus, and I know that experiences like this in my undergrad years informed my perspectives and activism to this day.
I've attached the flyer here and am happy to offer more info. Here's a blurb you can use for sharing:
Hosted
by: CAUSE | Presented
by: CEES
Included: Transportation and snacks | Please bring your own
lunch
Join us for an impactful on-the-ground learning experience as we
visit sites of
environmental injustice in our region, including the Port of
Hueneme and the
Halaco Superfund site. This tour offers a powerful look at the
real-world
impacts of environmental racism and inspiring community resistance
efforts. A
more detailed email will be sent closer to the date of the trip to
all students
who sign up, with information about van assignments and where to
meet.
[Sign up for the Toxic Tour here]
Questions, contact: Yassi Eskandari <ya...@ucsb.edu>
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5) LOCAL INTERNSHIPS:
Habitat Restoration Maintenance -- Storke Ranch Vernal Pools
Work with a conservation biologist on this local restoration project sponsored by the Storke Ranch Homeowner's Association.
Interns will participate in invasive plant control (lots of weeding!), vegetation monitoring, phenology data collection, plant propagation, and possibly some seed collection and herbarium specimen collection.
This is a great opportunity to gain valuable hands-on field experience and obtain skills in plant identification and other aspects of restoration.
Contact Kelly Hildner — kkhi...@gmail.com to request an application.
Hours/week: 4-6, most likely Friday mornings.
Location: Storke Ranch is an easy bike ride from the university.
Positions: Volunteer internships are available. There are no paid internships available for this quarter.
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6) Santa Barbara
Channelkeeper - Water Quality Monitoring Internship
Santa
Barbara Channelkeeper will
be hiring a paid internship position to assist with our water
quality
monitoring program in the Goleta Valley Watershed. Our Water
Quality
Monitoring program is a great way for folks to gain field work
experience,
hone their data entry skills, and interact with a local
environmental nonprofit
organization.
I have attached the internship job description that can be shared with your email list serves. Cover letters and resumes are due by June 8, 2025 and can be emailed to me (mo...@sbck.org).
Compensation: $17/hr. and mileage reimbursement ($0.70/mile)
Commitment: 1 year minimum. This position requires substantial training. We are
looking for one additional intern who will be available and located in the Goleta/Santa
Barbara area
Application Details: Please submit cover letter and resume to Molly Troup at
mo...@sbck.org by June 8, 2025. Interviews will occur the last two weeks of June.
Training will begin in July.
Job Description (training is provided):
The Water Quality Intern will assist Channelkeeper’s Science & Program Manager in implementing the water quality monitoring program in the Goleta Valley Watershed. Primary duties include:
- Maintenance, preparation, and calibration of equipment and materials for creek sampling events each month
- Water quality monitoring in the field for five water quality parameters and collecting additional water samples to analyze in the laboratory
- Analyzing water quality samples in the Channelkeeper lab for indicator bacteria and turbidity
- Data entry (approximately 3 hours/month)
- Conducting additional water quality monitoring, stream survey field work, and quality control activities as necessary
- Assisting with outreach in the field as needed
Additional tasks may include:
- Conducting occasional water quality presentations/interviews
- Assisting with Channelkeeper outreach and fundraising events
- Assisting with other Channelkeeper events such as creek and beach cleanups
Requirements:
- Ability, comfort, and desire to work highly independently in the office and in the field
- Curiosity, acute observational skills, extreme attention to detail, and reliability
- Ability to conduct fieldwork in creeks, which may include carrying equipment (up to 25 lbs), hiking up to 1 mile over uneven, difficult terrain through wet, muddy, and overgrown areas.
- Willingness to conduct data entry work
Desirable Qualifications:
- Analytical background in environmental science, chemistry, biology or other related field (especially related to water quality and/or creek ecology).
- Experience with Microsoft Excel and Access
- Knowledge of environmental policy
- GIS/GPS experience
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7) Internships with Sweet
Wheel Farms & Santa Barbara Agriculture & Farm Education
Foundation
Situated between the larger cities of Santa
Barbara and
Ventura sits Summerland, California Sweet
Wheel Farms, a 7-acre farm, was created to fill a need for
whole food and
to solve the food desert in our community. The farm is run through
our non-profit
Santa Barbara Agriculture and Farm Education Foundation, a
dedicated group of
professionals and citizens believing in food as medicine, on a
mission to
educate and empower the next generation of farmers while ensuring
food security
for food fragile communities.
This internship is an opportunity to assist with planting,
weeding, harvesting
and revisiting the work that has been completed during the
internship,
reflecting on knowledge gained, posing questions. We have a dedicated 10 week
outline of what one
would do in this internshop. Pease
see attached
flyer for more info.
To apply send cover letter and resume to Leslie Davis lda...@sweetwheelfarms.org
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8) Still Figuring Out
Your Summer Plans? The Wild Rockies Field
Institute (WRFI) invites
you to join our Restoration Ecology course—a unique,
immersive
academic experience that takes your environmental education out
into the field.
August 3-23, 2025 for 6 quarter units!
Are you passionate about restoring ecosystems and learning how land can be actively healed through science, policy, and community action? The Wild Rockies Field Institute (WRFI) invites you to join our Restoration Ecology course—a unique, immersive academic experience that takes your environmental education out into the field.
On this 3-week summer course, you’ll earn upper-division college credit (through the University of Montana) while backpacking through stunning ecosystems of the Northern Rockies. You’ll study on-the-ground restoration projects, analyze ecological challenges, and engage directly with land managers, scientists, ranchers, and conservationists working to repair damaged landscapes.
DATES: August 3-23, 2025
CREDITS: 4.5 quarter credits
Here’s what makes this course special: 🌱 Hands-on
field-based learning
🧭 Backcountry
travel and ecological exploration
👥 Discussions
with real-world stakeholders
🎓 3
upper-division environmental science credits
🎒 Live
and learn outdoors in a small cohort
We offer numerous tuition discounts, as well as the Joel DiBiase Memorial Restoration Ecology Scholarship, which awards up to $1,000 towards tuition. We have extended the application deadline for this scholarship to July 31st!
👉 Spots are still open for summer 2025, and if you apply now, you’ll be entered into a raffle to win a full backpacking gear setup from Kelty (tent, pack, sleeping bag, and pad)!
Whether you’re studying environment, ecology, biology, or sustainability, WRFI’s Restoration Ecology course offers an unforgettable chance to explore your academic passions through adventure and impact.
Start your application or learn more at www.wrfi.net, and feel free to reach out to Kelsey Wellington, WRFI’s Student Experience Manager, at kelsey.w...@wrfi.net with any questions.
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9) LOCAL JOB
OPPENING: Stewardship
Coordinator at the
Isla Vista Recreation and
Park District.
2 0 hours a week!
We are hiring for the position of Stewardship Coordinator at Isla
Vista
Recreation and Parks District! Our current coordinator, Thea
(author of this
newsletter) is graduating in June and moving away from Santa
Barbara!
The Stewardship Coordinator is responsible for supporting Isla Vista Recreation and Park District’s stewardship program in coordination with the Park Ranger and Assistant General Manager; promoting, marketing, and implementing the Stewardship program under the direct supervision of the Assistant General Manager and/or Park Ranger; expanding the education and outreach section of the program in collaboration with community partners. The Stewardship Coordinator is also the main caretaker for the Estero Community Garden Demonstration Plot (#12) and works to foster its growth as a teaching garden for volunteers to experience outdoor activities in.
Here is some brief information about the position:
Hiring as soon as possible
Up to 20 hours a week
Tuesday through Saturday schedule
Coordinator of Stewardship Saturdays
Caretaker of #12 Estero Garden Plot
Main point of contact for volunteer inquiries
Facilitator of marketing and promotion for stewardship
Creator of weekly newsletter
Assistant in grounds projects
Here are some qualities we are looking for!
Knowledge of basic gardening practices and some native plant knowledge
Experience leading groups of people in a task
Enthusiasm working outside in the elements
Able to juggle multiple tasks at once
Willingness to learn Canva, Constant Contact, and other promotional platforms
Ability to interact with general public and work through questions and concerns
Thea will be leaving this position in the middle of June, so we are hoping to hire as soon as possible! If this position sounds like something you would enjoy, please apply!
Apply via this link below. It will be through the platform Indeed. Feel free to email twint...@ivparks.org with any questions!
-- Eric D. Zimmerman (he/him) Student Services Manager, Lecturer Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara To schedule a Zoom advising appointment visit: https://tinyurl.com/8nrcckds "Work Hard ~ Play Harder!"
