Historic New England: The Planning for Resiliency - Paid Summer Internships (2019)

The Planning for Resiliency Cohort will include a Design Intern, Ecology Intern, and GIS intern. All three interns will work with the leadership at Historic New England as a cohort to undertake the second phase of a project titled Planning for Resiliency. Historic New England’s properties are, of course, subject to the same climate stressors as the surrounding region: as our 2018 intern found, between 1958 and 2010, the Northeast experienced a 70% increase in precipitation, a greater increase than any other region of the country. State government reporting shows that Massachusetts temperatures rose at .5° F/decade from 1970 to 2015 and that its coast is also receiving a slightly higher rate of sea level rise than the global average. These changes affect not only coastal properties and environments, but the infrastructure systems that support residents and communities. The Cohort of three interns will complete an integrated project addressing climate-driven threats at four seventeenth-century museum properties in Newbury, Mass. Come here from the former Middlebury intern, Emma McDonagh ’19, who worked on the Planning for Resiliency Project in summer 2018 along with Sally Zimmerman, Senior Preservation Services Manager at Historic New England.