Field Director, North America Climate Change Field Center

Earthwatch Institute is an international environmental organization that engages people worldwide in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment. Our research program focuses on Climate Change; the sustainable management of resources; oceans; and communities in order to better understand critical environmental issues and inform and influence local agendas.

Earthwatch is seeking a Field Director to lead Earthwatch programs at the NARCC, to close out the final year of the HSBC Climate Partnership (HCP), as well as to participate in strategy for the continuation of NARCC activities beyond HCP funding. HCP is a global, 5 year program initiated in 2007 to reduce the impacts of Climate Change on people and their livelihoods, by promoting action in some of the world’s major cities, river basins and ecosystems. Earthwatch’s focus within this partnership is engaging corporate employees and the general public in a field research and learning program that enables participants to investigate climate change impacts on forest ecosystems while participating in a formal learning program....