Student Internships in Climate Change
Concerned about climate change? Wondering when world oil production will peak
and what renewable energies are ready to step in? Want to improve the
communication of sound science and policy on these topics to a global audience?
Here's your chance.
We are looking for motivated individuals to become student Encyclopedia
Interns on a major climate change initiative underway at the Encyclopedia
of Earth (http://www.eoearth.org), a
new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and
their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully
searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals,
educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other’s work. The
articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to
students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general
public.
The goal of this project is to build the Web's largest and most
authoritative resource on climate
change. Encyclopedia Interns will help harvest public domain content,
copyedit articles, and
otherwise assist authors and topic editors in producing and publishing
articles. Encyclopedia Interns
will learn the basics of Mediawiki software, the collaborative content
platform that underlies Wikipedia,
and work with researchers, educators, professionals, and other experts on
climate change and related topics. The time commitment is flexible and you
can work at home, your school's Food Court, Starbucks, or wherever you can
grab an Internet connection. You can see the current group of "e-scribe"
Interns here:
http://www.eoearth.org/article/E-scribes. Here's your chance to make a
difference and gain unique professional experience.
Interested?
Contact Maggie Surface at
eoe@eoearth.org.
