Internships

Current Interns

Sam Parker

School: Dickinson College 2012
Major: Environmental Science
Internship Focus(es): Production, Efficiency and Glycerin Composting 

Jordan Haferbier

School: Dickinson College 2013
Major: Sociology & Environmental Studies
Internship Focus(es): Biodiesel Production & Community Outreach

Rich Lauvai

School: Dickinson College 2013
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship Focus(es): Biodiesel Production & Grey-Water Recovery  

Louisa McIver

School: Dickinson College 2014
Major: Environmental Science
Internship Focus(es): Biodiesel & Soap Production

David London

School: Dickinson College 2012
Major: Environmental Studies & Economics
Internship Focus(es): Biodiesel Production & Business Planning
 

Former Interns

Liz Babcock

School: Dickinson College 2012
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship Focus(es): Biodiesel Production & Education 

Cailey Clark

School: Dickinson College 2013
Major: Environmental Science
Internship Focus(es): Biodiesel Production

Amy Woolf

School: Dickinson College 2012
Major: Biology
Internship Focus(es): Biodiesel Production

Brandon Jones

School: Dickinson College 2009
Major: Physics, English
Internship Focus(es): Production, Energy Balance

Andrew Kamerosky

School: Dickinson College 2010
Major: Environmental Science
Internship Focus(es): Methanol Recovery - when brewing biodiesel more methanol than is needed is added to force the reaction to completion, which leaves methanol in the biodiesel and glycerol byproduct, so by using heat distillation with various techniques and equipment this extra methanol is recovered and reusing it in production; Biogas Digestor - The biodiesel process creates a lot of the glycerol byproduct which needs to be disposed of, so one option is using anerobic digestion with methanogenic bacteria to produce methane from the glycerol for various domestic uses

Sam Wheeler

School: Dickinson College 2010
Major: Physics
Intership Focus(es): Biodiesel Production

Christopher Bergen

School: Dickinson College 2012
Major: Environmental Science
Internship Focus(es): Production and System Efficiency

Jamie L. Panunzio

School: Saint Anselm College 2009
Major: Biology with certificates in Fine Arts and Forensics
Internship Focus(es): Biogas production from glycerin with anaerobic digesters; Compost testing to determine the effects of adding glycerol to compost (One with cucumber seeds in different concentrations of compost with glycerol, one with berlese funnels to see how different levels of glycerol in the compost affects the compost fauna, and the Minnesota z test, the effect of different levels of glycerin has on worms by measuring their weight); Testing how adding glycerin affects the temperature of compost piles (compost can get to over 150 degrees, and last year it was found that piles with glycerin made the piles hotter faster); Assisting in soap production

Kelly Maurer

School: Dickinson College 2010
Major: Physics
Internship Focus(es): Energy Balance

Sarah Gold

School: Dickinson College 2010
Major: Biology
Internship Focus(es): Production, Methanol Recovery, Biogas Digestors, Glycerin Composting 

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