Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services Mapping and Valuation Intern
Point 97 and Ecotrust are jointly seeking an intern to advance our project work on mapping and valuing
coastal and marine ecosystem services—particularly in the context of marine spatial planning efforts.
The Ecosystem Services Intern will be an integral part of the Point 97 team and play a key role in
advancing and shaping current and future project work. Key responsibilities/deliverables of the
Ecosystem Services Intern are to:
1) Conduct and synthesize an extensive literature review of costal and marine ecosystem service
valuation and mapping tools, initiatives, and studies to serve as a key reference for project staff
to understand the current state of the field of work. This includes providing an overview, project
examples/geographies, and key strengths and weaknesses of tools and initiatives found.
2) Produce a set of recommendations to Point 97 and Ecotrust staff as to how we may advance our
work to remain at the leading edge of ecosystem service mapping and valuation; and
3) Assist and contribute to ongoing ecosystem service valuation and mapping project work such as
survey design, survey tool testing, data analysis methods, statistical analysis, and report writing.
The intern would be exposed to the fast-paced work environment and wide array of marine spatial
planning projects/staff at Point 97 as well as projects/staff at Ecotrust. This is an excellent way to learn
about the issues and innovative solutions that researchers and professionals at the cutting edge of
marine spatial planning and environmental conservation/community development are working on.
Point 97’s Lead Project Manager Dr. Cheryl Chen and Ecotrust’s Economist Dr. Noah Enelow will jointly
manage the intern. Together the intern and supervisors will establish an internship work plan which
includes specific contributions the intern will make to Point 97 and Ecotrust’s ecosystem services
valuation and mapping work. The intern will have regular check in with supervisors and at the end of
their internship will present his/her work to the supervisors and other Point 97 and Ecotrust staff.
The intern will be located at the Point 97 office in Portland, Oregon and will be full-time (40 hours/week)
with a flexible start date between June 1st and June 15th for a six week duration.
Skills Requested
 Excellent interpersonal, communications, and writing skills
 Highly organized and pays attention to detail
 Self starter and ability to learn and expand knowledge on their own
 Demonstrated skills in literature review and synthesis—in particular; resourceful in seeking
information through online searches and grey literature
 Ability to recognize vagueness in assigned tasks and works to resolve it and provide solutions
 Experience working independently and part of a team
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Demonstrated experience and enthusiasm for collaborative work.
High level of professionalism and maintains a positive attitude
Able to work in a fast-paced work environment
Interest/familiarity in the marine spatial planning, mapping human uses and values, and
ecosystem services.
Point 97
Point 97 (“nine-seven”) is a new, high-tech startup pushing the frontier for ocean planning and
management decision support tools. Point 97 creates state of the art ocean data visualization and
analysis tools that are powerful and easy to drive, well tuned to serve local needs and identify solutions
for today’s ocean management challenges. Point 97 helps partners and clients strengthen coastal
communities and ocean ecosystems, bridge different ocean user perspectives, and implement
management decisions in a collaborative and transparent way.
Ecotrust
Ecotrust’s mission is to innovate, invest, and inspire in ways that creates reliable prosperity. This
prosperity follows our triple bottom line philosophy in which promoting economic opportunity, social
equity, and environmental well-being are all critical measures of success in our work. Ecotrust is
headquartered in Portland, Oregon and is a unique organization; creating a range of programs in
fisheries, forestry, food, farms and children's health, and developing new scientific and information tools
to improve social, economic, and environmental decision-making.
Please send a cover letter and resume/CV to (no phone calls please):
Dr. Cheryl Chen
Point 97
721 NW 9th Ave, Suite 200
Portland, Oregon 97211
cheryl@pointnineseven.com
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