internships

Potential Internship Locations

 All internships must be a structured program and must be preapproved.

Government Organizations and State Parks

• Government Internships in California
  Current cities listed: Long Beach, Los Angeles, Irvine, Orange County, San Diego & San Francisco
  http://www.internships.com/government/california

• State Organizations
  CalEPA
  • Air Resources Board
  • Department of Pesticide Regulation
  • Department of Toxic Substances Control
  • Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle)
  • Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
  • State Water Resources Control Board
  • Regional Water Quality Control Board

• Bureau of Land Management

https://www.blm.gov/get-involved/internships

• California Department of Fish and Wildlife

https://wildlife.ca.gov/Explore/Volunteering

• California State Parks System

https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=886

• California Water Board

https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/

• Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning

Academic Internship, Student Worker Program, Administrative Internship, Management Fellow Program
http://hr.lacounty.gov/internships-overview/

• Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (LARWQCB)
  
  
• Port of Los Angeles Summer Internship Program    

https://www.portoflosangeles.org/contact/internship.asp

• Port of Long Beach Academy – Paid College Internships

https://polb.com/community/education-resources-internships/#internships

• National Park Service

https://www.nps.gov/getinvolved/volunteer.htm

• CSUDH Sustainability Internship Program
  Semester positions
  Contact Ellie Perry at 310-243-3804 or EPerry@csudh.edu

• Any federal, state or county organization or department
  
  
• Any city government or department

Museums, Aquariums & Gardens

• Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

http://www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org/get-involved/internships.asp

• Aquarium of the Pacific
  http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/volunteer/college_internships/

• Natural History Museum
  
  
• La Brea Tar Pits & Museum
  
  
• The Sea Lab
  
  
• Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

• South Coast Botanical Garden
  
  
• Los Angeles Conservation Corps

Charitable Non-Profits

• California Wildlife Center

https://cawildlife.org/volunteer/

• Council for Watershed Health
  Field Monitoring
  GIS & Spatial Design
  Policy & Research
  https://www.watershedhealth.org/get-involved

• Friends of the Los Angeles River (FOLAR)

https://folar.org/opportunities/

• Heal the Bay

https://healthebay.org/

• LA Waterkeeper

https://www.lawaterkeeper.org/

• Local Community farms (i.e. Compton community garden)

• Malibu Creek State Park

http://www.malibucreekstatepark.org/index.html

• Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
  Many different programs during the school year and summer
  https://pvplc.org/volunteer/

• Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains

https://www.rcdsmm.org/

• Tree People (Los Angeles, CA)
  https://www.treepeople.org/jobs-internships/
  
  

For Profit Companies

• Local environmental firms (i.e. Anderson environmental)