Events and Activities
11th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival - Coloma & South Lake Tahoe!
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival, organized and produced by the South Yuba River Citizens League, leaves attendees feeling INSPIRED and MOTIVATED to go out and make a difference in our communities and the world. By activists and for activists, it is the largest event of this kind, and it showcases our work in a broader environmental and social context, serving to remind us that we’re participants in a global movement for a more wild and scenic world.
Dates: Jan. 31st in Coloma & March 31st in SLT!
Locations: Gold Trail Grange in Coloma & Montbleu Casino in SLT.
Please view festival tour dates here, or visit their website!
Conservation Science Webinar!
Conservation Biology Institute and Data Basin collaborate, providing public webinars!
Date: January 7, 10 AM
Topic: How Temperature and Precipitation Trends Have Affected Mountain Hydrology and Ecology.
For more information about webinar topics and presenters, click here!
TERC Monthly Lecture: Exploring Mars with Curiosity
Dawn Sumner from the UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences will be leading this monthly lecture. She is also a member of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, helping the rover Curiosity explore ancient environments in Gale Crater on Mars.
Date: January 28, 2016
Location: California Air Resources Board, Monitoring and Laboratory Division. 1927 13th Street, Sacramento
Details: Seating open at 5:30 p.m. to pre-registered guests, open seating starts at 5:50 p.m. Program starts at 6:00 p.m. $5 suggested donation will be collected at the door.
Please click here to register for this event!
Job Announcements & Volunteer Opportunities
Executive Director: Sierra Nevada Alliance!
We are seeking an innovative, resilient, and dynamic executive director to lead the
organization as it moves into its 23rd year. The executive director will have primary responsibility for
pursuing the Alliance’s long-range vision of successful Sierra conservation in concert with member
organizations, partners, volunteers, staff, and board.
Job description and application info here.
Development Assistant with SYRCL!
The South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) seeks an organized, detail-oriented and friendly person
to work on our development and fundraising team, part-time, in Nevada City. The Development Assistant will coordinate events and
assist in tracking financial contributions, stewarding donors, and doing database entry and funder
research.
Job description and application info here!
Director: Mother Lode Chapter of the Sierra Club!
The Mother Lode Chapter of the Sierra Club seeks a chapter director to provide leadership and to
work under the direction of its volunteer leaders to implement the chapter's policies, programs
and operations. Start date: March 1, 2016.
Full job description available here!
Ecologist with Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit!
The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is currently seeking a candidate for an Ecologist, GS-0408- 9/11 position located at the Supervisor’s Office in South Lake Tahoe, California.
To express interest in this position, please contact Becky Estes at bestes@fs.fed.us, for a Voluntary Outreach Interest Form, and return it to Adrian Escobedo at aescobedo02@fs.fed.us by close of business on 1/7/2016
For additional information, please contact Becky Estes at the above email or by phone: 530-642-5161.
Tahoe Rim Trail: Outdoor and Youth Program Manager and Trail Ops Coordinator!
Working for the Tahoe Rim Trail Association (TRTA) is more than just a day job! Be a part of 'a trail like no other' and help build a legacy for the future. The Tahoe Rim Trail currently seeks two enthusiastic individuals to join the team.
Take a look at our current job opportunities here.
Climate Change Program Specialist!
Specialist will be assigned to the USAID/Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment, Global Climate Change (GCC) Office. The USAID GCC Office is responsible for coordinating and reporting on USAID’s contribution toward the USG Global Climate Change Initiative, implementation of USAID’s Climate Change and Development Strategy, coordinating with international organizations, donors, and processes that deal with climate change and development, and for providing thought leadership to advance climate-resilient, low emissions development.
Announcement closes Monday January 11 2016 at 11:59pm.
For full description, please apply on USA Jobs!
Senior Environmental Scientist!
The California Department of Parks and Recreation - Natural Resources Division seeks a Senior Environmental Scientist (Specialist) to work towards the protection of botanical resources throughout the California State Park System. Working with the Natural Resources Division and State Parks District natural resource staff, the successful applicant will provide technical expertise and assistance, policy guidance, and program and project management on issues related to vegetation management and natural resource conservation throughout the State Park System.
Job description and application info here.
Development Director: Eastern Sierra Land Trust!
The Development Director is responsible for the leadership, strategic direction and management of all fundraising and development for Eastern Sierra Land Trust (ESLT).
Job description and application info here.
Resources
Yosemite National Park: Public Scoping of Wilderness Stewardship Plan
Yosemite’s Wilderness is currently managed under the 1989 Wilderness Management Plan. The park needs to update this plan to incorporate current information about visitor use patterns, methods of managing visitor use, techniques for trail design and construction, and concepts for managing stock in wilderness.
Yosemite National Park has opened public scoping for planning and environmental impact analysis for the Yosemite Wilderness Stewardship Plan with comments accepted through January 29, 2016.
More information here!
Call for Abstracts - Agricultural Groundwater Conference
The Unique Agricultural Groundwater Conference will be held in San Francisco, June 28-30, 2016. The conference integrates across a wide range of topics specifically focused on this nexus: sustainable groundwater management, groundwater quality protection, groundwater-surface water interactions, the groundwater-energy nexus, agricultural BMPs for groundwater management and protection, monitoring, data management, modeling tools, and agricultural groundwater management, regulation, and economics.
Please consider submitting an abstract to this unique conference focusing on groundwater in key agricultural regions in California, North America and throughout the world!
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 15, 2016! More information here!
Free Memberships Available: The Citizen Science Association
The Citizen Science Association is now inviting inaugural members. At this time, there is no cost for membership. As this new organization is being established, inaugural members can help to shape the Association through opportunities to vote on key decisions about direction, priorities, and leadership.
For more information, click here!
SFEWS Online Journal Now Available - Vol. 13, Iss 4, Dec 2015
The University of California's John Muir Institute for the Environment announces the latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science online journal. Articles cover such topics as fish conservation, Delta nutrient load trends, genetics, and endangered habitat management, among others.
Read the full journal here!