Internship Organizations

Internship Organizations

Since 2012, Geography and Environmental Science & Policy students have received course credit for internships within the following organizations. They are presented in reverse chronological order. Many of these organizations have recurring positions. Some provide us with position announcements. When such announcements are available for currently available internship positions, links to the advertisements are provided. Even if there is no current position announcement listed, you may contact these organizations to inquire about internships. First, search their websites to see if they have any current internship listings. In addition, conduct a Google search with the name of the organization and “intern” as keywords. Second, write to the contact person in the position announcement (even if the date on it has passed) or write to a contact person listed on the organization’s website. The College of Liberal Arts Internship page provides an example of what you might write in the email.
 
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
Website: https://pvplc.org/_about/
Organization comment: The Conservancy offers college and university juniors, seniors, and graduate students the opportunity to work with staff as interns. We offer these unpaid positions in the Conservation, Education, and Administration departments.
Last held: NEW
 
CN Utility Consulting
Website: https://wearecnuc.com/
Organization comment: 
Last held: NEW
 
City of Long Beach Internships
Website: Job Opportunities
Organization comment: There are a number of paid internships in various departments of the City of Long Beach. Search for “Intern” in this list.
Last held: NEW opportunities in Recycling and Transportation divisions. After clicking on the links below, search for the those titles in the job listings.
Environmental Services Bureau
Transportation Programs Division
Orange County Transportation Authority
Website: www.octa.net
Organization comment: Search for “College Intern” and “Summer College Intern” in this list.
Last held: Fall 2018 and New Paid 2019 Summer Internships in several areas (10-weeks). Apply now.
Paid 2019 Summer Internships

Environmental Education Interns
Website: Ground Education
Organization comment: Interns will accompany senior educators to local elementary schools and help facilitate garden-based classes. Includes a stipend.
Last held: NEW
GroundEd Enviro Intern Description 2017-2018
City of Long Beach, Bureau of Transportation Mobility
Website: Transportation Planning Interns
Organization comment: Part-time paid internship in transportation planning offers direct work experience.
Last held: NEW
Admin Intern Job Flyer Transportation 11-28-17 FINAL
City of San Juan Capistrano Planning Intern
Website: City of San Juan Capistrano Planning and Zoning
Organization comment: Part-time paid internship in urban planning offers direct work experience.
Last held: NEW
San Juan Caprstrano Planning Intern
City of Santa Ana Planning Intern
Website: www.ci.santa-ana.ca.us/pba
Organization comments: The Planning Department is looking for interns to work on the update to the City’s General Plan over the next year. Senior Planner Jill Arabe is a graduate of the Geography Program at CSULB.
Last held: NEW
City of Santa Ana Volunteer Intern Application
City of Santa Ana Paid Intern Application
Building Healthy Communities Long Beach
Website: www.bhclongbeach.org
Organization comment: Our internship is ideal for students enrolled in your department’s internship course and interested in community organizing, community health, and working hands-on in Central, West, and North Long Beach. We strongly encourage students of color, LGBTQ students, undocumented students, and students who live in Central/West/North to apply.
Last held: 2018
BHCLB Intern Position
Citizens’ Climate Lobby
Website: citizensclimatelobby.org/
Organization comments: CCL advocates for carbon pricing solutions to climate change by developing bipartisan political will to pass legislation.
Last held: NEW
CCL internship description – CSULB 2
Algalita Marine Research and Education
Website: www.algalita.org
Organization comments: The Experienceship is a hands-on internship designed to give you an educational journey through plastic pollution.
Last held: 2018
Current Position Openings
Long Beach Organic Inc Community Gardens
Website: http://longbeachorganic.org/
Student comments: “Growing your own food is very sustainable and the best part is you get to choose what you want to produce without the worries of chemicals being added to your crops and it tastes amazing!”
Last held: 2017
Current position openings
Dr. John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center, Santa Ana
Website: www.jdcoopercenter.org/
Organization comment: The Center is offering volunteer internships for gaining experience in applied archaeology, historical geography, and museum science
Last held: 2017
Current position openings
Council for Watershed Health
Website: www.watershedhealth.org
Student comments: “My coworkers were incredibly helpful in explaining the objectives of our field tasks and answered all my questions related to the instruments, procedures and goals of each assignment.”
Last held: 2017
Current position openings
Grades of Green
Website: www.gradesofgreen.org
Student comments: “Definitely know how to speak to kids, be organized, and be proactive in asking questions.”
Last held: 2017
Redhill Group
Website: http://www.redhillgroup.com/
Student comments: As an intern, “I was able to extend my proficiency in using common office programs such as Excel and Powerpoint, and was able to utilize my Python programming knowledge to greatly enhance office productivity”.
Last held: 2017
Tidal Influence
Website: www.tidalinfluence.com
Student comments: “It is my honest belief that interns get what they give and what I have shared in time and effort has been returned in experience and knowledge.”
Last held: 2016
Current position openings
AECOM environmental consulting
Website: www.aecom.com/careers/who-we-hire/recent-graduates/
Student comments: “We are the puppetiers in the background making things happen.”
Last held: 2015
Get Together adult daycare (implementing sustainable practices in their office)
Student comments: “A strength is being able to research and see the outcome of my project.”
Last held: 2015
PowerSave Campus Alliance to Save Energy
Website: http://www.ase.org/programs/powersave-campus
Student comments: “Campus tours with PowerSave Schools allowed the team to demonstrate university sustainability measures to middle school students and inspire a new generation of energy leaders.”
Last held: 2015
ISV: International Student Volunteers conservation programs
Website: http://www.isvolunteers.org/
Student comments: “This project allowed me to explore and critically reflect upon the local sustainability issues and opportunities within South Africa and relate these issues to global sustainability concerns.”
Last held: 2015
Surf Rider Foundation Long Beach Chapter
Website: www.lbsurfrider.org
Student comments: “It’s not easy. You need to be a self-starter.”
Last held: 2015
Municipal Water District of Orange County
Website: http://www.mwdoc.com/
Student comments: “Through projects, customer service, and outreach, I have become a knowledgable advocate for water use efficiency.”
Last held: 2015
Department of Veterans Affairs
Contact: HRSC@state.gov
Student comments: “The available career placement provided through the internship is a definite plus.”
Last held: 2015
Los Angeles Water Keeper
Website: www.lawaterkeeper.org
Student comments: “I gained my strengths such as being able to communicate with professionals in interdisciplinary fields as well as a more thorough understanding of how non-profits and Non Governmental Organizations operate.”
Last held: 2015
U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management
Contact: Edward.hart92@yahoo.com
Student comments: “Overall, this entire internship project seemed more like a vacation than an internship.”
Last held: 2015
Hertz Service Pump and Compressor
Contact: janfang@hertz.com
Student comments: “I was able to observe the direct relationship between humans and their influence on the natural hydrologic cycle.”
Last held: 2015
Global Energy Network Institute
Website: http://www.geni.org/
Student comments: “As an intern at GENI, I was provided the opportunity to select projects that best applied my strengths and encouraged my passion to further explore the environmental sciences field.”
Last held: 2015
CSULB Office of Sustainability
Website: http://www.csulb.edu/sustainability
Contact: Holli Fajack, Sustainability Coordinator, holli.fajack@csulb.edu
Student comments: “This position provides you with many opportunities to connect with a community of students, staff, and faculty that are passionate about sustainability.”
Last held: 2015
Aquarium of the Pacific
Website: http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/
Student comments: “With this experience you will learn an enormous amount of information and become more comfortable talking to others about what you have learned”
Last held: 2015
World Relief Refugee Resettlement
Website: http://worldreliefgardengrove.org/
Student comments: “This internship has allowed me to have a positive impact on my community, such as by helping local immigrants and refugees find household necessities, food and employment”
Last held: 2015
International Bird Rescue Center
Website: www.bird-rescue.org
Student comments: “This internship has assured me that my education and passion to help wildlife is on the right track.”
Last held: 2015
LINC Housing Corporation
Student comments: “Being a Healthy and Sustainable Homes Intern allowed me to best apply my knowledge gained through my major in Environmental Science & Policy to provide awareness on sustainable living”.
Last held: 2015
P.V. Net
Student comments: “As a GIS intern, I would continuously train, and complete other online Esri training courses to keep abreast of changes in the GIS industry.”
Last held: 2015
Long Beach Marine Institute
Student comments: “This experience I had with LBMI was very enjoyable and reassuring that teaching is something I would want to do with my life.”
Last held: 2015
Huntington Beach High School Green Team
Student comments: “This internship improved upon my leadership skills, increased my understanding of ecology and the symbiotic relationships organisms have with one another, and taught me about aquaponics”.
Last held: 2015
Entravision Communications Corporation
Student comments: As an intern, I was able to “apply geographic techniques and methods in the workplace in order to produce more efficient sales techniques.”
Last held: 2015
Tidal Influence
Student comments: “It is my honest belief that interns get what they give and what I have shared in time and effort has been returned in experience and knowledge.”
Last held: 2015
Foodscape Organic Farming
Student comments: “The organization was able to provide me with high-quality workshops on how to start my own urban organic farming business”.
Last held: 2015
Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch
Student comments: “This internship enhanced my knowledge of invasive species, water runoffs, and the importance of location.”
Last held: 2015
Port of Los Angeles (Information Technology Department)
Student comments: Throughout the course of this internship, students have “the opportunity to apply purely academic skills in real world scenarios, to make judgement calls based on sound GIS knowledge, and to make critical connections with important GIS professionals within the city and county of LA”.
Last held: 2014
CSULB Environmental Science & Policy Program
Student comments: This internships is best for students “who can tackle tasks on their own and are able to take charge of a project without needing much guidance”.
Last held: 2014
Riverside County Flood Control & Water Conservation District
Website: http://www.floodcontrol.co.riverside.ca.us/
Student comments: “Those looking for GIS experience, this internship would be very beneficial especially as it can help you develop skills that you may otherwise lack”.
Last held: 2014
Sonoma County Regional Parks
Website: http://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/
Student comments: This internship allowed me to “explore the outdoors while hiking the trails and collecting data for my work”.
Last held: 2014
United Water at El Segundo
Student comments: Tasks given as an intern include: “understanding of the water treatment process, and all the intricacies behind it, data input and analysis, and proper sampling procedures”.
Last held: 2014
LAWA – Gateway Internship Program
Student comments: “This experience has provided me a chance to apply what I learned from classes to real-life problems through performing research and gathering information in order to investigate cases and find correlations/ causations to problems”.
Last held: 2014
City of Bishop Public Works
Website: http://www.cityofbishop.com/departments/public-works/
Student comments: “Attribute tables may not be fun or glamorous, but this is what a GIS professional is paid to do”.
Last held: 2014
NASA Office of Education and the University Space Research Association
Website: https://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/descriptions/Education_Associates.html
Student comments: Interning with this company has “tremendously developed and expanded my knowledge of environmental policies and regulations as well as federal agency systems”.
Last held: 2014
The Homeless Services Division
Student comments: Working within this department “equipped me with the skills and experience necessary to pursue further opportunities working in data analysis and peaked my interest in pursuing a career in public speaking”.
Last held: 2013
Connecting with Carson
Website: http://www.carsoncaconnected.org/
Student comments: Part of being an intern for this organization was to “work well with my partner to troubleshoot any problems that arose in the field” and it also required the knowledge of GIS “in order to accurately route and audit the appropriate intersections and segments”.
Last held: 2013
County of Lake Departments: Administrative & Water Resources
Website: http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory.htm
Student comments: There is a ton of field work applied towards this internship such as “taking pictures of the lake at different times of the day in different conditions or performing an analysis on quality of water”.
Last held: 2013
Digital Map Productions
Student comments: “My time at DMP has been an excellent learning experience and a great opportunity to leverage my previous customer service experience and technical knowledge to get my feet wet in the GIS industry.
Last held: 2013
City of Anaheim (GIS)
Website: http://gis.anaheim.net/
Student comments: Strengths with working with this group include: first hand experience with GIS, learning other operations inside the city’s government, and solving a spatial question.
Last held: 2013
Grand Aspirations
Website: http://grandaspirations.org/
Student comments: “I am happy to have been a part of a dedicated and considerate team… who brought community members together under the common purpose of neighborhood improvement”.
Last held: 2013
VSolvit
Website: http://www.vsolvit.com/
Student comments: As an intern, “one is placed into a team” to assist in real life projects such as geocoding and mapping for business development.
Last held: 2013
City of Santa Monica Waste Reduction
Website: https://www.smgov.net/departments/ose/categories/solidWaste.aspx
Student comments: “Helping kids learn about recycling while having fun is one of the most rewarding experiences”.
Last held: 2013
The Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur
Website: http://marinemammalcare.org/get-involved/internship-opportunities.html
Student comments: “You can obtain hands on experience with different types of marine mammals” as well as “qualified individuals can expand beyond husbandry duties into specimen analysis and veterinary care”.
Last held: 2013
California Wilderness Coalition
Website: http://www.calwild.org/
Student comments: The level of physical work was gruesome but “the opportunities to encounter truly wild areas firsthand was incredible”.
Last held: 2013
San Gabriel Mountains Forever Leadership Academy
Website: http://sangabrielmountains.org/academy/
Student comments: “The San Gabriel Mountains Forever Leadership Academy is a great way to get involved for anyone who enjoys the outdoors, advocacy, public policy, or just likes to volunteer”.
Last held: 2013
Esri
Website: http://www.esri.com/careers/main/student-jobs
Student comments: During the time spent at Esri, “I now better understand business ethics, the product development process and team collaboration that is needed to train professionals and educators in GIS”.
Last held: 2013
Department of Water and Power (Corona)
Website: http://discovercoronadwp.com/
Student comments: Benefits of working for the City of Corona are: new environment, new experience, patience, and responsibility.
Last held: 2013
Proyectos Dinosaurios
Student comments: Proyectos Dinosaurios “takes one behind the scenes of the Natural History Museum and how a professional paleontology institute works”.
Last held: 2013
National Marines Fisheries Service
Student comments: “The ocean is the foundation of life, and I hope to ensure its protection for the future and NMFS is a great organization whose sole objective is to do just that”.
Last held: 2013