The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s (SFPUC) Urban Watershed Planning Division is recruiting multiple intern positions to work in our green infrastructure group beginning in summer 2026. The Urban Watershed Planning Division develops long-range plans, policies, programs, and standards using an integrated watershed planning approach to optimize the performance and resiliency of San Francisco’s sewer system using green infrastructure. This internship may involve a range of duties and will depend
on the skills and experience of the selected candidate(s). Potential duties include community outreach and engagement, supporting administration of the San Francisco Stormwater Management Ordinance, supporting planning of capital green infrastructure projects, detailed design review of proposed projects, supporting the implementation of green stormwater infrastructure financial incentive programs, and/or supporting flood resilience programs.
Applicants must be in an accredited Engineering · Architecture · Planning · Landscape Architecture · Computer Science/Information Services Program · Mathematics · Biology · Natural Resources · Electronics program at a university or a related field at a community college. An applicant must be returning to their undergraduate program or entering/continuing a graduate program in the Fall 2026. For students that have graduated, an applicant can be appointed to begin work within 6 months after graduation. Please refer to the How to Qualify in the job announcement for more information.
IMPORTANT: Please be sure to specify your interest in the Urban Watershed Planning position in the Message to Hiring Manager section of the application.
Applications are due January 15, 2026.
Intern Openings and Applications: Please submit your application at the following
link: San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Summer 2026 Student Design Trainee Program | City and County of San Francisco
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Talks on environmental flows and flood displacement by former and current PhD students
1230-2pm, Rm 315A Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
Evaluating Environmental Flows in the Central Valley Under Various Management Scenarios by Sooyeon Yi, UC Berkeley post-doc, and Assistant Professor Chico State University
It’s the housing, stupid! Regional flood risk management in a land of exposure: the Pajaro Valley case study by Adrienne Dodd, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley
Please RSVP here and we’ll reserve pizza and a drink for you.
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Sooyeon Yi is a postdoctoral researcher in Ted Grantham’s lab in ESPM at UC Berkeley, where she leads work on environmental flows as part of the COEQWAL project. She will be joining California State University, Chico as an Assistant Professor of Hydrology in Spring 2026. Her talk will focus on the environmental flows work developed through the COEQWAL project.
Adrienne Dodd is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning engaging in applied research around Disaster Mitigation and Management. She has an MS in Natural Disaster Mitigation and Management from National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan, and a BA in Environmental Studies from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Currently, her dissertation work looks at what preparatory planning in the face of large-scale disaster induced displacement looks like, and how it can be improved to mitigate long-term housing insecurity and displacement after a disaster. Her past work has focused on community-engaged participatory planning for disaster mitigation and climate adaptation.
US Bureau of Reclamation Internships at Technical Service Center, Denver
Opportunities to work in various aspects of rivers, water management, and restoration, based in the Bureau’s center for research and innovation in Denver. Best of all, after having done an internship you have a leg up when applying to permanent positions. The TSC has led studies on some of the most exciting river issues of our time, such as the Elwha and Klamath Dam Removals, and Trinity River Restoration Program.
Applications open through Jan 7, 2026. See link for details.
The 21st annual Berkeley River Restoration Symposium took place on Saturday 13 December, in the Bauer Wurster Hall auditorium, 9am – 3pm. Mark Bransom, CEO of the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, presented a keynote talk on the history and current status of the largest dam removal in the US, followed by presentations of research by graduate students on diverse topics such as wildfire effects on channel form of creeks within Yosemite Park, effects of meadow restoration on hydrology, riparian restoration on Tuolumne River, methyl mercury exposure from fish in Clear Lake, San Francisco’s Islais Ck, vegetation in the Los Angeles River, ancient channels of Iraq, and restoring for salmonids on Sausal, Lagunitas and
Putah Creeks.
See below for program.
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Open in new tab This past August, around 40 students and instructors gathered at the Sagehen field station outside Truckee, CA for the Riverlab’s annual Geomorphic and Ecological Fundamentals of River & Stream Restoration Short Course. Throughout the five day course, participants engaged in stimulating discussion, collaborated on problem solving, visited several restoration sites in the Lake Tahoe area, and gained hands-on experience in river restoration methods. Instructors included experts from the field, including Matt Kondolf (UC Berkeley), Peter Wilcock (Utah State), Mike Limm (Cañada College), Scott McBain (Applied River Sciences), Mark Tompkins (FlowWest), Dave Shaw (Balance Hydrologics), among others.
Throughout the week, Sagehenners bonded over good food, shared interests, and the beautiful Tahoe scenery. Excitement from the week included a bear sighting and a guitar sing-along to close out the week. We look forward to another engaging course next summer!
GEOMORPHIC & ECOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTALS OF RIVER & STREAM RESTORATION COURSE will continue to be offered August 17-21, 2026. Registration opens January 2026.
This five-day shortcourse on river restoration is based at Sagehen Creek Field Station, which combines a beautiful natural setting with excellent research facilities, such as an outdoor classroom, a stream table to demonstrate channel adjustments, an on-site laboratory, and Sagehen Creek, with its rich history of research in fluvial geomorphology and ecology. Instructors and speakers are drawn from multiple disciplines and both research and practice.
For more information, see our shortcourse page:
Dudek is hiring! Looking for:
Ecological Designer – early career
Habitat Restoration Landscape Architect – 8+ years of experience
Geomorphologist – 8+ years of experience
Restoration Engineer – 12+ years of experience
More info about the positions is on the Dudek website, and you can apply directly at
Questions? Contact Jake Marcon <[email protected]> and Stuart Fraser <[email protected]>
Abuelitos Foundation (Napa) intends to hire an Ecosystem Restoration Fellow. The position is
ideal for an early-career professional (a grad student, recent grad, or practicing professional) to
implement watershed restoration, permitting, and supporting the nonprofit foundation, and
contributing directly to work of the Conn Creek Land Lab in Napa. See link to job posting.
Wednesday 7 May 3-5:30 pm, Rm 305 Wurster Hall
Jurors: Sarah Puckett (American Rivers), Rich Walkling (RDG), Artie Valencia (Restore the Delta), Rob Olshansky (University of Illinois), Adrienne Dodd (UC Berkeley), Leslie Ferguson (San Francisco Bay Regional Water Board)
Please pre–register here
3.00pm
Mormon Slough, Stockton: water quality, flooding, and equity
Alejandra Amador-Caro, Isaiah Blake, Giovanni Livi Bacci
Islais Creek, San Francisco: a longitudinal transect of social connectivity
Isobel Hayne
The Chicago River’s ‘Wild Mile’
Julia Buford
Restoring habitat on the Hantan River (Korea) for people and birds
Florencia Sepulveda
4.20pm – break
Restoring the Napa River salt marsh
Katrina Clausing
A tale of two creeks: Marsh and Kellogg, east Contra Costa County
Dechen Santapau
5.10pm
Juror Panel Discussion
This Riverlab event is free and open to Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and the alumni community, but please pre-register here.
Physical and social ecosystems in urban stream restoration
Presented by Kristen Van Dam (Ecological Services Coordinator, East Bay Regional Park District)
This seminar took place on Tuesday 14 April, 4-5:30pm, Rm 305 Bauer Wurster Hall
Kristen Van Dam is a restoration ecologist with twenty-one years of experience in ecological restoration, planning and assessment. She has managed or co-managed over a dozen restoration projects throughout California. She has extensively studied riverine, freshwater fish, and terrestrial ecology and authored several studies and assessments, including a novel reference methodology for riparian vegetation produced as her master’s thesis. Kristen leads a variety of projects and initiatives for the Park District, from watershed assessments to large-scale restoration projects.