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Title | SF - Food & Biomass Science Fellowship |
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Position Description Both the emergence of biofuels as a significant transportation fuel and a growing interest in sustainable agriculture create exciting opportunities to promote sustainable food and biomass production. The Food and Biomass Science Fellow will join a cross-program effort at NRDC to advocate for sustainable policies, metrics, and practices across an array of policy and standard setting processes, seeking to protect our climate, land and water resources. The Fellow will collaborate with experts from NRDC’s Energy & Climate, Health, Land and Water Programs. Outside NRDC, the Fellow with work with key stakeholders including those representing non-profit public interest organizations, academic institutions, businesses, and will represent NRDC in regulatory and legislative processes. Key areas of responsibility include: · Provide scientific and technical support to NRDC’s Energy & Climate, Health, Land and Water Programs. · Work with NRDC staff, outside partners, and the academic community to research, assemble, and synthesize data and information that articulate the environmental metrics and ways to measure actual performance of agriculture and biomass production. · Engage the larger scientific community and collaborate with other science fellows in NRDC’s Science Center. Qualifications The ideal candidate will have the personal and professional skills to advance NRDC’s objectives, including:
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