Author: Whitney King

Colby College and Maine Huts and Trails with support of the Buck Lab is sponsoring two summer internships.   Students will be based at Colby and travel to each of the Maine Huts for overnight visits at least once each week.    Interns must be able to hike four miles and be comfortable with backcountry travel.

We have funding for two interns.   Please apply to one or more of the following internship opportunities.   We will review all applications and select two interns   whose interests best align with the available projects.

Please email application materials to:  Merrie Woodworth, Education and Youth Programs Coordinator, [email protected], and Whitney King, Miselis Professor of Chemistry,  [email protected].   Applications will be reviewed starting 3/11/2018.

Project Details

Economies & Trends of Systainable Tourism – Maine Huts & Trails 2018

Energy System Efficiency Review Maine Huts & Trails Summer 2018

Locally sourced food Internship Maine Huts & Trails l Summer 2018

Review of Transportation Logistics at Maine Huts & Trails

One September 15 Professor Denise Bruesewitz and her Environmental Science Capstone class used Flagstaff hut as an off-the-grid resource to work on  field data collection techniques on the shore of Flagstaff Lake, and for each student research team to develop a core set of principles that will establish their team dynamic for the semester of collaborative research. She also wanted the students to participate in the energy tour of the hut, because part of our class project is to make carbon and nutrient budgets of the farm we are studying in our class this year.   Read the student reflections for both trips in the Archive section of this web page.

The next weekend, September 22, 2017, Professor Michael Burke took his Environmental Imagination class  to the Stratton Brook Hut.   The course was created under the auspices of the Center for Arts and Humanities, as one of the first Environmental Humanities courses sponsored by the Center. The focus of the writing intensive course is the ways in which humans have imaginatively constructed views of the non-human/nature, in literature, philosophy, art, religion, music, and architecture. At this point in the semester, the class had read excerpts in poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, with some particular attention given to Thoreau, John Muir, and Mary Austin, as examples of types of nature writing.