American Perceptions of Climate Change

• Addressing Climate Emergency for Small Island States, a workshop and seminar featuring Thilmeeza Hussain, Permanent Representative of the Maldives to the United Nations, and Ali Naseer Mohamed, Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States. Monday, January 30, 9 am-5 pm in Room 9-354. Register.
   
• Slow Fashion: Mending for Sustainability, a lunch session teaching members of the MIT community to resist fast fashion by mending their clothes. Monday, January 30, 12-1 pm in Room E19-202. Register for limited spaces.
   
• Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Climate Change, a collaborative effort at MIT to update and fill in gaps in Wikipedia's articles on climate science and solutions. With instruction on contributing to Wikipedia. Friday, February 3, 1-3 pm, at MIT Libraries Room 14N-132. Register.

• Sustainability Connect 2023, an MIT community forum on the future of sustainability at MIT and delivering on the MIT climate action plan. Tuesday, February 14, 9 am-2:30 pm at the Samberg Conference Center. Register.

• Heat Pumps 101, a webinar to help you electrify your home heating and get the most out of tax rebates, hosted by the Charles River Green Coalition. Wednesday, February 15, 7-8:30 pm online. Register.
   
• Time to Think Small: How Nimble Environmental Technologies Can Solve the Planet's Biggest Problems, a presentation by Todd Myers, Director of the Center for Environment at the Washington Policy Center and author of a new book on technological solutions to environmental challenges. Thursday, February 16, 6-7:30 pm at the MIT Welcome Center auditorium. Register.
   
• Advancing Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Systems, a space-limited conference hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Business on building decarbonized and climate-resilient cities. February 24-25 on the Stanford University campus. Register.
   
• MIT Energy Conference, the largest student-led energy and climate conference in the U.S., this year with the theme "Transition Under Crisis: Technology, Investment and Geopolitics." April 11-12 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Early bird tickets on sale now.
   
• Preparing for a Changing Climate, a space-limited conference hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Business on climate adaptation strategies and international compensation for loss and damage from climate change. April 28-29 on the Stanford University campus. Register.
   
• Transforming Engineering Education 2023, an international research symposium on how engineering education can impart students with skills in systems thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration to address global challenges. Hosted by MIT, Harvard, and Aalborg University. June 21-23 at venues in Boston and Cambridge. Submit an abstract or workshop proposal by December 5.

• Fellowships: Nominations are open for the Martin Society of Fellows for Sustainability, providing a full year of funding to 10 PhD students at MIT whose research advances environmental and social sustainability. Learn how to be nominated by February 8.
   
• Student Job: ESI is hiring a graduate student Climate Science Researcher/Writer to review and update the MIT Climate Primer with citations and the latest climate research. Apply.
   
• Student Jobs: The MIT Office of Sustainability is hiring MIT students for a variety of paid, part-time research positions. Apply.
   
• Job: The MIT Office of Sustainability is hiring a Data Engineer to update and build out the architecture for tracking and reporting on all campus sustainability activities, including in food, waste, and climate mitigation and resiliency. Apply.
   
• Job: The MIT Office of Innovation and the Plasma Science and Fusion Center are hiring a Program Manager Venture Builder to find new market opportunities for translated technologies coming out of MIT. Apply.

• Job: The MIT Energy Initiative is seeking a Development Officer to help fund its mission of advancing clean energy development. Apply.
   
• Fellowships: The MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Laboratory is accepting nominations for MIT graduate student fellowships providing a semester of funding for research into solutions for the water, food and agriculture sectors. Learn how to be nominated by March 1.
   
• Fellowships: The MIT Energy Initiative has opened applications for the Society of Energy Fellows. MIT graduate students and postdocs should learn how to be nominated by March 22.
   
• Job: The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication is seeking a full-time postdoctoral research fellow to contribute to experimental research on public climate change knowledge and behavior. Apply.
   
• Job: Creative Commons is seeking an Open Climate Data Manager in a 12-month contract position to facilitate the creation of a community-supported, long-term solution for the better sharing of large, distributed open climate datasets. Apply by January 31.
   
• Job: The Plastic Solutions Fund is hiring a U.S. Program Manager to support relationships and grant-making to resource transformational projects across the plastics supply chain. Apply.
   
• Jobs: The City of Boston is hiring for positions including Executive Director of the Boston Conservation Commission, Director of Environmental Quality, Director of Climate Resilience and Adaptation, Climate Environmental Planning Project Manager, and a BERDO Review Board Manager overseeing building emissions reductions.
   
• Internship: The Boys' and Girls' Club Metro South is seeking an Urban Farming and Food Access Intern. MIT students can apply through Handshake by February 20.
   
• Internships: The World Wildlife Fund is seeking a Sustainability and Innovation Intern, a Global Food Loss Tool Research Intern, and a Specialty Crop GHG Emissions Intern. MIT students can apply through Handshake by February 28.
   
• Internship: Miami-Dade County is seeking an Extreme Heat Outreach and Advocacy Intern. MIT students can apply through Handshake by February 28.
   
• Internship: The City of Tucson is seeking an Urban Planning Intern to support the city's next General and Sustainability Plan. MIT students can apply through Handshake by March 20.
   
• Internship: Beth Israel Medical Center is seeking a Sustainability Program Assistant to help execute its sustainability goals. MIT students can apply through Handshake by March 31.

• Contest: Net Impact has launched its Circular Plastics Challenge, for teams of students and/or professionals to offer upstream solutions to keep plastics out of the economy and the environment. The first-place team will receive $10,000. Apply by February 13.
   
• Contest: The C3E Awards honoring outstanding mid-career women in clean energy are open for nominations. Nominate a candidate by February 15.
   
• Grants: The MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Laboratory will award one-year, $150,000 grants to MIT researchers to help commercialize promising ideas to secure water and food systems for human need. Apply by February 22.

• Contest: The Carbon Management Collegiate Competition, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, tasks student teams with developing an economically competitive proposal for a regional carbon transport network. Apply by February 28.
   
• Grant: NOAA is offering grants of between $100,000 and $2 million to multi-institutional teams to study large-scale marine carbon removal. Apply by February 28.
   
• Contest: NASA's Gateways to Blue Skies Competition challenges teams of students to produce a study and proposal for an alternative energy source for clean aviation. Finalists receive cash prizes, invitations to a forum at NASA Center in June, and possible internship opportunities. Apply on a rolling basis by February 28.

• Call for Papers: Stanford University's "Preparing for a Changing Climate" conference is accepting submissions of papers. Submit by February 1.
   
• Global Environment Outlook Contributions: The United Nations Environment Programme is preparing to draft its seventh Global Environment Outlook. Nominate qualified individuals as authors, review editors and fellows by January 31.
   
• Summer Program: The Swiss Climate Summer School will bring early stage researchers in touch with established scientists from different disciplines to bridge the topic of climate change with sustainable development goals, with the theme of "the climate-water-energy-food nexus." Apply by February 17.