Interns

UEA Internship Program

Urban Ecology Australia launched an international internship program in 1994. It ran for some years. Through the program, UEA provided unpaid training for interested people from around Australia and overseas. The program attracted many interns from a variety of countries.

Program placements were limited by UEA's capacity to host trainees at any given time. The program is not operating at present, although if resources increase in the future, it may restart.

Previous Interns

Below are some of the people who have participated in the program.

2002

Thi Kim Quy Hoang (Vietnam)

Thi Kim Quy Hoang from Vietnam student is doing a Master of Science program in Environmental Management at Aalbörg University, Denmark. She is examining ways in which "waste" can be transformed into building materials for green buildings. She will also investigate the technology transfer of innovative contruction methods using "waste materials", and the cultural conditions that enable it. Christie walk is her case study.

David Buetefuer (Australia)

From the University of Adelaide Politics Department, David Buetefuer researched the politics of eco-city building as it relates to Christie Walk and future stages of Ecopolis development in Adelaide - mapping out areas of support and resistance in the local political context. David later served on the UEA board.

Sebastian Wilk (Germany)

Sebastian Wilk from Hamburg - Worked on urban planning and approval processes.

Ori Epstein (United States)

Ori Epstein from New Orleans worked to provide a framework so that the ecological footprint of Christie Walk can be calculated sometime in the future.

Eva Kolling & Oliver Eiden (Germany)

Eva & Oliver from Germany continued the work on embodied energy especially in relation to the Christie Walk site.

Pierre Chanut (France)

Pierre Chanut from Albertville - studied the environmental impact of materials.

2001

Emily Alfred (Canada)

Emily Alfred from Canada worked on many tasks especially organising masses of slides.

Erin Reilley & Kathleen "KT" Torpy (United States)

Erin & KT from Colorado did lots of manual work and learnt many new skills!

Ivo Wüst (Germany)

Ivo Wüst from Germany - collected information about the Christie Walk site, and created educational and publicity material.

2000

Nina Creedman (United States)

Nina Creedman from San Francisco, looked at planning and urban design,the Shadow Plans and did a lot of strawbale building and carpentry!

1999

Markus Venohr (Germany)

Markus Venohr from Germany, worked on Geographical Information System analysis for SENRAC, and some groundwater modelling.

Jessica Bullen (United States)

Jessica Bullen from Chicago - worked on a project comparing the transportation habits of people living in suburbs and in the city, and the costs and benefits in regard to these habits.

1998

Anne Baerwinkel & Jana Philipp (Germany)

From Germany, Anne Baerwinkel and Jana Philipp, ecology students at the University of Eberswalde (a small town near Berlin), worked on creating a 'Green Energy Map' of South Australia, showing existing sustainable energy projects as well as possible sites for future projects. Anne & Jana were in contact with Wendy Brawer from the Green Map System in the United States, developing new icons for the different forms of energies, which can be used by people all over the world for Green Energy Maps.

1997

Leslie Chaison (United States)

Leslie Chaison, an environmental studies graduate from the University of Minnesota, spent five months researching urban agriculture and food security for her thesis.

Norbert Thuringer (Germany)

Norbert Thuringer, an environmental engineering graduate from Germany, spent two months at the Centre for Urban Ecology, researching embodied energy of building materials for the Bourne Court Pilot Project.

1996

Lim Poh Im (Malaysia)

Lim Poh Im, BSc (Hon) spent three months at the Centre for Urban Ecology studying urban ecology, ecological city theory and the work being undertaken by Urban Ecology Australia. She produced a report entitled 'Impacts of Inner City Ecological Development to the Urban System - Case Study of Halifax EcoCity Project, Adelaide, Tandanya Bioregion, South Australia'.

1994

Thomas Jensen (Denmark)

Thomas Jensen, a fourth year civil engineering student from the University of Aalborg, Denmark, undertook a four month study program at the Centre for Urban Ecology. He produced a report entitled 'Adelaide's Future: Ecopolis or Technopolis? - Urban Planning and Development Projects in Adelaide'.

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