\nThe Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is seeking a college student to help the Urban Forestry’s division to collect updated information on recently planted SDOT and privately maintained street trees, and report on their rate of survival. \u00a0The intern will be tasked to provide analysis of tree establishment program success.<\/p>\n
SDOT’s Urban Forestry mission is to provide integrated maintenance, emergency response, and stewardship of the engineered and natural systems within the right-of-way, to promote a safe, vibrant and interconnected city. \u00a0The intern will be given a hands-on orientation for street tree data collection using a proprietary ArcGIS collector application. \u00a0iPads will be supplied for data collection, and a text chain will be set up with on staff arborists to allow interns to check tree species and location by checking in with staff. We will also provide training to assist in ArcGIS identification of tree locations.<\/p>\n
Educational Benefit to Student:<\/strong>
\nThe position will help the student understand how their coursework translates into the daily operations of a city’s urban forestry division, in particular, the collection of data and entry into the tree inventory, and analysis of data to determine how well the current tree establishment program is succeeding in preventing tree mortality.\n<\/p>\n<\/dd>\nJob Responsibilities<\/dt>\n\n75% \u00a0Field data collection;
\n20% \u00a0Data verification, analysis and reporting; and
\n5% \u00a0 File\/Data management<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n
Qualifications<\/dt>\n\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS<\/strong>
\nEducation<\/strong>
\nOpen to all undergraduate students enrolled in an accredited 2-year or 4-year educational program and graduate students, who are enrolled in an accredited educational program.<\/p>\nPreferred Areas of Study<\/strong>: \u00a0 Forestry, Urban Forestry, Landscape Architecture, Arboriculture, Horticulture, Natural Resource Management.<\/p>\nUndergraduate student<\/strong>s will need to maintain a 2.0 GPA or above throughout the internship.
\nGraduate students<\/strong>\u00a0will need to maintain a 3.0 GPA or above throughout the internship.<\/p>\nEXPERIENCE<\/strong>
\n\u00a0<\/strong>Required:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Experience in or knowledge related to tree identification<\/li>\n
- General knowledge of ArcGIS products<\/li>\n
- Data management and organizational skills<\/li>\n
- Ability to work independently<\/li>\n
- Ability to perform ad-hoc research using the internet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Desired Qualifications<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n- Project management experience<\/li>\n
- Familiarity with tree inventory applications<\/li>\n
- Familiarity with Seattle\u2019s neighborhoods will be helpful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/dd>\n- Additional Information<\/dt>\n
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Start\/End Dates<\/strong>: \u00a0 Early July 2021 to September 15, 2021<\/p>\n\u00a0Schedule<\/strong>: \u00a0Intern will work 20 hours\/weeks while school is in session. \u00a030-40 hours\/week during school breaks. \u00a0Work hours can be scheduled between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm.<\/p>\n\u00a0Salary<\/strong>: \u00a0Undergraduate students<\/strong>\u00a0will be paid $18.26\/hour.\u00a0Graduate students<\/strong>\u00a0will be paid $22.50\/hour.<\/p>\n\u00a0How to Apply:<\/strong>\u00a0 complete an online application and include the following:<\/p>\n\n- Unofficial transcript including current classes and GPA<\/li>\n
- Cover letter<\/li>\n
- Resume<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u00a0Incomplete applications will not be considered.<\/p>\n
Note: \u00a0The City has the expectation that interns will be readily available to report to onsite work in Seattle when operational needs require.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8699,"featured_media":34097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[4,32,33,19,7,8,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39064,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39062\/revisions\/39064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}