UPDATE 2/27/19: APPLICATIONS ARE NOW DUE MARCH 4TH AND LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION ARE DUE MARCH 11TH.

As reported on our website and in our last newsletter, the CRC is now actively managing a Chesapeake Student Recruitment, Early Advisement, and Mentoring (C StREAM) program to promote the long-term mentorship for students from typically under-represented populations to find positions of leadership in environmental science, engineering, and management, including (we hope) roles in academia. For the summer of 2019, we intend to support seven or eight C-StREAM Fellows at positions within the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO), the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO), or one of our member institution’s already active programs of summer research internship.

APPLICATIONS ARE DUE SOON, so please help us spread the word to university sophomores, juniors, or seniors (second-, third-, or fourth-year students) who you believe are likely to succeed at and benefit from such an internship experience. (Post-baccalaureate applicants are accepted, so long as they have a plan for continued mentorship in environmental leadership after the experience is over.) For application forms and details about the program, see the C-StREAM website. Once they have applied, the most competitive applicants will be given opportunity to view and rank specific opportunities available at the various institutions.

For those of you who manage research programs or environmentally related projects at our research institutions or agency partners, please let us know if you have personal interest in participating in this program. We will then work with you and your institution to help you advertise the position you would like to fill with one of our Fellows, and to insure that your position is appropriate for our program.

Finally, for any of you who teach at ANY undergraduate institution (or know someone who does), please help us to connect potential undergraduate applicants with potential teachers at their home institutions who can serve as academic points-of-contact and teachers, advisors, or (most ideally) mentors on independent studies or research.  Our hope is to find an engaged point-of-contact for each Fellow who will join the student and us in “following up” from the student’s summer experience – i.e., to help them find similarly rewarding experiences throughout their academic career, and ultimately a fulfilling career in environmental leadership.