Students/Recent Grads

CEMML is committed to supporting the next generation of natural and cultural resource management professionals as they build their careers and seek to tackle the environmental challenges of the present and future. CEMML offers paid internship opportunities through our Early-career Development Program (ECDP).

Student & Recent Graduate Opportunities

Student & Recent Graduate Stories

A woman stands in front of a fighter jet on display at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.

From wilderness guide to environmental specialist: How CEMML’s early-career program helped one intern find her path

After early job experiences as a wilderness guide and ski instructor, Ellery McCaw came into CEMML’s Early-Career Development Program expecting just a part-time internship. What she found was a platform to gain career insights and build on technical skills. She left the program confident that the critical administrative and procedural skills she acquired will help her advance her career ambitions.

Julie Zill leads a group of people planting plants along a stream in Hawaii

Community partnerships drive conservation success at Bellows Air Force Station

For Emma Beard, a CEMML natural resource specialist based at Bellows Air Force Station in Hawai’i, the work is all about sustainability – ecologically, culturally, and operationally. To achieve that, it takes a whole community. Beard regularly brings together service members, educators, community leaders and volunteers all in the name of an island-wide conservation effort.

CEMML's Lucas Chapman holds the tip of a broken Haskett Projectile point at Hill Air Force Base.

From journalist to archaeologist: My journey as a cultural resources technician

After a seven-year career in journalism, Lucas Chapman was looking for a change. He completed a master’s degree in archaeology and was looking for a way to gain practical experience in his new career path. After coming across CEMML’s Early-Career Development Program, he found just the opportunity he was looking for.

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