Environmental Internship Program - 2023 Booklet
Grace Wang ’26 UNDECLARED ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY AND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT TITLE Mining for the Climate ORGANIZATION(S) Blue Lab, Effron Center for the Study of America, Princeton University LOCATION(S) Pasadena, California; Thacker Pass, Nevada; Princeton, New Jersey; Gaston County, North Carolina MENTOR(S) Allison Carruth, Professor of American Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University; Nate Otjen, Postdoctoral Research Associate, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University; Juan Manuel Rubio, UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara I worked with the Blue Lab’s Mining for the Climate team to research lithium mining in the United States and produce a public-facing podcast series about a proposed lithium mine in Gaston County, North Carolina. Following preliminary research, our team undertook 10- days of fieldwork in North Carolina, California and Nevada. We traveled to proposed mine sites and interviewed mining company executives, local activists and government officials. During our fieldwork, we reckoned with the challenges posed by the renewable energy transition and the consequences of the extractive processes necessary for it. After returning, we workshopped our podcast’s first season and began writing the episodes. I spearheaded production on the fourth episode in the series, which delves into the narratives of local residents in Gaston County. During this internship, I gained valuable fieldwork research and audio production skills, as well as expansive knowledge of the complex issues surrounding energy transition and extraction.
Lily Weaver ’26 COMPUTER SCIENCE Certificates: Engineering Biology, Statistics and Machine Learning PROJECT TITLE Fine Spatio-temporal Variation in Intra-urban Heat Stress in U.S. Cities ORGANIZATION(S) Urban Nexus Lab, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University LOCATION(S) Princeton, New Jersey The Urban Nexus Lab aims to advance sustainable, healthy and equitable cities through knowledge co-production and nexus modeling of key transboundary infrastructure and food systems. I worked on a project to examine intra-urban heat stress patterns in various U.S. cities. I created a data download tool to access temperature and humidity data from PurpleAir, a crowdsourced sensor network that collects air quality data. I also worked on analyzing and creating visualizations for the PurpleAir data to help us determine the viability of PurpleAir sensors to measure fine-scale intra-urban temperature variation. I’m grateful I had the opportunity to learn from the outstanding professors and graduate students at the Urban Nexus Lab and I hope to continue researching urban sustainability in the future. ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY AND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY MENTOR(S) Anu Ramaswami, Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute 49
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Lily Weaver ’26<br />
COMPUTER SCIENCE<br />
Certificates: Engineering Biology, Statistics and<br />
Machine Learning<br />
PROJECT TITLE<br />
Fine Spatio-temporal<br />
Variation in Intra-urban<br />
Heat Stress in U.S. Cities<br />
ORGANIZATION(S)<br />
Urban Nexus Lab,<br />
Department of Civil<br />
and <strong>Environmental</strong><br />
Engineering, Princeton<br />
University<br />
LOCATION(S)<br />
Princeton, New Jersey<br />
The Urban Nexus Lab aims to advance<br />
sustainable, healthy and equitable cities through<br />
knowledge co-production and nexus modeling<br />
of key transboundary infrastructure and food<br />
systems. I worked on a project to examine<br />
intra-urban heat stress patterns in various U.S.<br />
cities. I created a data download tool to access<br />
temperature and humidity data from PurpleAir,<br />
a crowdsourced sensor network that collects air<br />
quality data. I also worked on analyzing and<br />
creating visualizations for the PurpleAir data<br />
to help us determine the viability of PurpleAir<br />
sensors to measure fine-scale intra-urban<br />
temperature variation. I’m grateful I had the<br />
opportunity to learn from the outstanding<br />
professors and graduate students at the Urban<br />
Nexus Lab and I hope to continue researching<br />
urban sustainability in the future.<br />
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY<br />
AND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY<br />
MENTOR(S)<br />
Anu Ramaswami,<br />
Sanjay Swani ’87<br />
Professor of India<br />
Studies, Professor of Civil<br />
and <strong>Environmental</strong><br />
Engineering, Princeton<br />
Institute for International<br />
and Regional Studies and<br />
the High Meadows<br />
<strong>Environmental</strong> Institute<br />
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