Engagement Opportunities

Engaged learning provides you with the opportunity to apply your learning outside the classroom in a way that has a meaningful impact on both you and the communities with which you connect. Through real-life collaboration, exploration and discovery, engaged learning takes you to the next level of understanding.

What are you waiting for? Check out Arizona Environment's comprehensive list of engagement opportunities and find the perfect fit for you to get your hands dirty!

Are we missing something? Send us an email at greenguides@arizona.edu, and we’ll feature it among these listings!


Visit this website for all posted American Conservation Experience Opportunities. Internships available across the country in a variety of disciplines. Many opportunities within US National Parks.

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Environment for the Americas and its partners are committed to connecting diverse students with careers in conservation, natural resources, history, geology, with skill-building internships with national parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, and other sites.

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Visit this database for frequently updated internship opportunities! Summer internships will typically start to be posted around December-January. Positions listed here have not yet filled and positions are taken down from the database once they are filled.

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Under Armour is seeking a Sustainability Operations Rookie and an Environment Sustainability Rookie to support the creation, implementation and management of programs and processes to reduced UA's impact on the environment.

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If you have an interest in sustainability planning and zero carbon strategies and want to work with some of the world’s most innovative clients, Buro Happold has the perfect role for you. We are seeking a passionate Sustainability Intern to join our Sustainability & Analytics team on a full-time basis. This role can be based in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, or Seattle.

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Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) is seeking 2 paid interns to assist with investigating historic watering uses in various watersheds around Arizona and potentially assist with field investigations of these uses.

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Deadline: December 15, 2023

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center seeks an intern to conduct research on a Smithsonian-funded project to process eDNA water samples collected previously from multiple streams across the Baltimore and Anacostia watersheds. For this project, we will be generating amplicon-based metabarcode libraries to examine the biodiversity of aquatic animals and bacteria across these streams, as indicators of ecosystem health.

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Deadline: December 31, 2023

Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., Inc. is seeking a full-time summer Sustainability Intern for the San Francisco office. This person is a student in the building science, environmental science, architectural, engineering, or construction fields, and can apply their multi-disciplinary skills to green building projects.

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Deadline: January 3, 2024

NOAA is offering paid summer internships targeted toward current 2nd and 3rd-year undergraduate and enrolled graduate students to work in areas that will provide robust research and/or operational experience that will prepare the student for further study in NOAA fields, for application to fellowships or for the NOAA-mission workforce. The program currently offers internship opportunities in the National Weather Service, (NWS), Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Ocean Service (NOS), and Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO).

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Deadline: March 19, 2024

Safety-Kleen located in Los Angeles, CA is currently seeking a Lab Technician Intern to join our team! The lab technician intern is responsible for assisting the lab technicians in the collection of samples to determine their chemical and physical properties.

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