EEES Internship and Job Postings

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The Homeland Security Professional Opportunities for Student Workforce to Experience Research program is now accepting applications for internships starting in the summer of 2024.

November 27, 2023

• Want to learn more about the US Department of Homeland Security and the research the agency and component agencies do to enhance your research interests and career goals?
• Interested in learning from top scientists and subject matter experts in homeland security related areas?
• Seeking to network with your peers and members of the academic and scientific communities in government facilities conducting research in DHS relevant areas?
If you answered “Yes”, to the above questions, the HS-POWER program is for you!
• The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate Office of University Programs sponsors the Professional Opportunities for Student Workforce to Experience Research (HS-POWER) Program for undergraduate and graduate students.
• HS-POWER is open to students majoring in a broad spectrum of homeland security related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines as well as DHS mission-relevant research areas which includes social sciences.
• As a participant in the HS-POWER Program, you will participate in quality research experiences with federal research facilities and other DHS-STEM focused entities nationwide. You will establish connections with DHS professionals that facilitate long-term relationships between yourself, researchers, DHS personnel and research facilities, giving you a competitive edge as you move forward toward your career.
Application at the following link: https://bit.ly/HSPOWER24
Benefits
• Stipend: Undergraduate students receive $750 per week and graduate students will receive $950 per week.
• Travel: A total of $1,000 travel reimbursement for inbound and outbound expenses for participants who live more than fifty miles, one-way, from the assigned hosting site, and who are paying for housing onsite is available.
• Housing Allowance: A housing allowance of $400/week is provided to participants whose home of record is more than fifty miles, one-way, from their assigned hosting facility, move onsite for the duration of their appointment, and are paying for housing while onsite. Alternatively, for those whose appointment is 100% virtual, a $50 virtual allowance will be added.
Appointment Details
• Appointments will be for 10 consecutive weeks during the months of May-July. Factors such as class schedules, housing availability and facility schedules may be taken into consideration when determining appointment start and end dates.
• Interns will be assigned to research projects and/or other technical activities under the guidance of a DHS mentor.
• An appointment involves daily participation at the host facility with the HS-POWER participant in residence at the specified location. Virtual appointments may be available for some appointments.
• HS-POWER participants are required to have health insurance coverage during the appointment period and to provide proof of this coverage prior to the start of the appointment.
Nature of Appointment
Participants will not enter into an employee/employer relationship with ORISE, ORAU, DHS, or the hosting facility. Instead, participants will be affiliated with ORISE for the administration of the appointment through the ORISE Letter of Appointment and Terms of Appointment.
How to Apply
A completed application consists of:
• A completed Zintellect Profile
• A completed Application which contains:

  1. An Interest Essay:
    The essay includes questions specific to the program addressing each of the following topics:
    • Personal Motivation for applying
    • Career Goals
    • Research Interests and Relevance to DHS Research Areas
  2. Transcripts/Academic Records:
    • Unofficial transcripts or copies of the student academic records printed by the applicant or by academic advisors from internal institutional systems may be submitted with the application.
    o Transcripts/Academic records must include name of the academic institution, name of the student, completed/in progress coursework and grades. Documents must have all social security numbers, student identification numbers, and/or dates of birth removed (blanked out, blackened out, made illegible, etc.) prior to uploading into the application system.
    • Copies of official transcripts will be required if an appointment is offered.
  3. Letters of Recommendation:
    You are required to request recommendations from a professional who can speak to your academic record and potential for success in an appointment as indicated by academic accomplishments, as well as communication and teamwork skills. Recommenders will be asked to complete a recommendation in Zintellect.
    • Recommendations submitted via email will not be accepted.
    • You are solely responsible for following up with your recommenders to ensure timely completion.
    All documents must be submitted via Zintellect. All application components must be received in the system to be considered. For more information, contact us at dhsed@orau.org.
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    Qualifications
    To be considered, applicants must meet each of the following criteria:
    • Be a United States (U.S.) citizen as of the application deadline. Evidence of U.S. citizenship must be submitted to ORISE at the time appointment is accepted.
    • Be 18 years of age or older by desired start date.
    • Have a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or higher on a 4.00 scale.
    • Be majoring in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) field which includes social sciences, with interest in homeland security research as described in the DHS Research Areas.
    • Be interested in pursuing long-term career goals aligned with the DHS mission and objectives.
    • Can obtain and maintain the required security clearance to access hosting facility.
    • Meet one of the following conditions:
    o Full-time enrollment as a freshman, sophomore or junior undergraduate student at a U.S. accredited 2-year or 4-year college or university during the 2023-2024 academic year.
    o Full-time enrollment as a senior undergraduate student at a U.S. accredited 4-year college or university during the 2023-2024 academic year and plans to be enrolled as a graduate student at a U.S. accredited college or university for Fall 2024.
    o Full-time enrollment as a graduate student at a U.S. accredited college or university during the 2023-2024 academic year, and plan to continue enrollment in Fall 2024.
    Additional Information
    • For students enrolled at a 2-year institution during the 2023-2024 academic year: Internship assignment is contingent on the student providing proof of application to a 4-year institution at the time appointment is accepted. Proof of enrollment in the 4-year institution for fall 2024 will be required upon appointment.
    • For undergraduate seniors graduating in spring or summer 2024: Internship assignment is contingent on the student providing proof of application to an accredited graduate institution at the time appointment is accepted. Proof of enrollment/acceptance in graduate school for fall 2024 will be required upon appointment.
    • Graduate students with an expected graduation date prior to the Summer 2024 term are not eligible to participate.
    • Students must demonstrate interest in research and development of innovative, next-generation homeland security solutions with potential for broad impact that align with the DHS mission to safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values.
    • Ideal candidates will have a demonstrated history of work, undergraduate research experience, or service learning/volunteer roles.
    Important Information
    • Preference will be given to applicants who are:
    o Veterans and Disabled Veterans
    o Underrepresented minorities in STEM
    o Persons with disabilities
    o Persons possessing a suitability or security clearance within the last five years.
    Employees of DHS Component agencies or participating partner agencies are not eligible to participate in this program.

Eligibility Requirements
• Citizenship: U.S. Citizen Only
• Degree: Currently pursuing an Associate’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, or Doctoral Degree.

Internship in Pendleton – Tetramer Technologies

November 15, 2023

Tetramer Technologies is an advanced materials company located in Pendleton. We are hiring for a 10-week paid summer internship funded by the Department of Energy to help develop a life cycle analysis and product carbon footprint for a biobased lubricant.

Additional information and a link to submit resumes are located here on the news page of our website: https://tetramer.com/news/10-week-department-of-energy-internship-at-tetramer/. Resumes are being accepted until November 29, 2023.

SC Space Grant Palmetto Academy NOW accepting additional applications

February 10, 2023

Are you an SC undergraduate student interested in working on a NASA related research project this summer?  Please consider applying for our SC Space Grant Palmetto Academy program!

We are re-opening the application portal to apply for Palmetto Academy student researchers!  We still have spaces to fill and want to encourage any student who are interested to apply. As a student researcher, you will work with a faculty at one of our SC Space Grant member institutions on a NASA-related project (see project/mentor list below).

New student applications are due by Midnight, February 27, 2027.

For more information and a detailed project summary blurb, please visit our Palmetto Academy page on our website:

https://scspacegrant.cofc.edu/palmettoacademyresearch

Summer 2023 Palmetto Academy Research Programs:

  1. Qiushi Chen, Clemson University: Toward bio-inspired energy-efficient drilling into lunar regolith
  2. Kaelyn Leake, The Citadel: Sub-millimeter sized patterning via laser modification of layer-by-layer ionic self-assembly Process
  3. Sorinel Oprisan, College of Charleston: Altered time perception under stress. The role of (micro)gravity stressor in time perception
  4. Ana Oprisan, College of Charleston: Universality laws in pure fluids and critical point experiments under density gradient
  5. Ramakrishna Podila, Clemson University: Energy storage devices for operation in extended temperature range -60 to 60oC
  6. Laura Redmond, Clemson University: Dynamic Topology Optimization for Robust, Lightweight Origami Rovers
  7. Kasra Sardashti, Clemson University: Quantum Sensing of Solar Flares using Superconducting Detectors
  8. Ya-Ping Sun, Clemson University: Student Participation in Developing Nanomaterials-Derived Technologies for Space Applications
  9. Ralph White, University of South Carolina: Structural Batteries Demonstrators for Aerospace Applications
  10. Ming Yang, Clemson University: Electrochemical Recovery and Conversion of Captured In-Space CO2 to Methane Fuel

Research Positions with NASA DEVELOP

February 2, 2023

NASA DEVELOP projects focus on helping local, national, and international communities address their environmental concerns by utilizing data collected by NASA’s Earth observing fleet of satellites. NASA DEVELOP operates at eleven locations across the country at NASA Centers and other regional locations. This is a great opportunity for participants who are interested in practical applications of remote sensing and GIS, specifically in the field of Earth Science. Participants will work with NASA scientists, partner organizations, and science advisors to learn about the use of NASA Earth science data for use in water resources, disaster management, ecological conservation, and other applications to address environmental community concerns.

Responsibilities for participants include literature review, data processing and analysis, and producing deliverables such as a technical report, presentation, and video. Although previous GIS or remote sensing knowledge is beneficial, no previous experience in Earth science research is required to apply to NASA DEVELOP. This is a multi-disciplinary opportunity for all those interested in Earth science, and applicants from a diversity of backgrounds are encouraged to apply.


Applicants must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be able to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. Days of the week are flexible, but applicants should be able to commit to 20 – 29 hours per week during the term. The position is paid on an hourly basis that is determined by education level and geographic location.

 
Details about this opportunity and how to apply can be found online at https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/capacity-building/develop. Applications for the summer 2023 term (June 5th – August 11st) are due on February 24th, with recommendations due March 10th.

We are hosting virtual “About DEVELOP” webinars on February 8th at 3 pm ET and February 9th at 11 am ET with more information about DEVELOP and applying to the program. Please see the attached flyer for details on joining these events.

Resources for the Future Summer Research Internship Program

January 25, 2023

Summer 2023 Research Intern Applications Are OPEN!

Do you want to begin a career in academic or policy research? Are you interested in contributing to impactful, balanced research that is aimed at improving environmental, energy and natural resource decisions? A summer research internship with Resources for the Future (RFF) might be right for you. The RFF summer internship program provides an opportunity for students to prepare for careers that engage in academic and policy-relevant research. Interns are essential members of the RFF Research and Policy Engagement team. They are responsible for providing technical support that, under the direction of RFF Fellows, allows for the production of compelling and impactful research that aligns with RFF’s mission of improving environmental, energy and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement.

Internships will run from June 12, 2023 to August 18, 2023. Start or end dates can be changed with an approved exception. All internships will be conducted in RFF’s offices in Washington, DC. Applications for the summer 2023 hiring season will close on March 17th, with interviews conducted by April 21st. Hiring decisions will be made by May 5th.

Summer 2023 Projects that will be supported by a summer intern include:

  • Advances and Challenges in Decarbonizing the Aviation Sector. The aviation sector contributes around 5 percent of global greenhouse gases, and demand for air travel is expected to triple by 2050. Decarbonizing the aviation sector is vital in achieving a net zero economy. This project aims to identify the advances and challenges in decarbonizing the aviation sector.
  • Exploring New Proposals for Energy Markets for Tomorrow’s Grid. As the electricity sector decarbonizes and reliance on variable renewable resources grows, electricity markets will face increasing price fluctuations and a more diverse generation mix. While there may be increased opportunity for cost savings, markets may also need new structures to keep dispatchable resources on-line or encourage new investment to meet the demand from increasing electrification. In this research project the summer intern will explore different proposals for helping to ensure reliable service in an increasingly decarbonized system and important tradeoffs between longer term mechanisms to encourage investment and the role that energy price variation can play in activating flexible electricity demand among other issues.
  • Evaluation of Justice40 Implementation. The Justice40 initiative mandates that at least 40% of the benefits of certain federal government programs go to disadvantaged communities. Exactly which programs are covered and how the mandate is implemented has been left to individual agencies. This project would take stock of J40 implementation, summarizing how several federal agencies are defining “disadvantaged” and measuring “benefits”, and to the extent possible, summarizing early outcomes.
  • Modeling the Distributional Effects of Climate Policy. This project will update, improve, and expand RFF’s Social Welfare Incidence Model, a microsimulation model of the distributional impacts of climate policies (Gordon et al. 2015).  This model has been used to evaluate the distributional impact of carbon pricing across states (Williams et al. 2014) and income groups (Williams et al. 2015), and to look at the costs of other environmental policies including the Inflation Reduction Act (Roy et al. 2022). The project will complete an update to latest possible data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, State Energy Demand System, and other sources. We will then calculate expenditures shares across demographic groups, downscaling regional expenditure patterns to the state level building on state income and expenditure data. We will also build a model map to improve transparency and useability. As time allows, we will apply the model to policy scenarios involving decarbonization of the transportation and electricity sectors.
  • Effects of Weather Extremes on the Value of Outdoor Recreation. Increasingly frequent days with extreme temperature have potential to diminish the value of outdoor recreation and disrupt the outdoor recreation economy, which accounts for approximately 2 percent of US GDP. This project will make use of daily campground reservation and cancellation data over a ten-year period to estimate revealed preferences toward temperature extremes among federal campground users. We seek an intern with skills in econometric analysis and data visualization (including mapping) to complete a new analysis using the RFF Weather Variability Explorer (WeaVE) tool and a previously assembled and cleaned data set on campground use.
  • Economic and Workforce Development Policy in the Energy Transition. The intern will help RFF review literature on lessons from various US federal, tribal, regional, and state-based economic and workforce development programs to identify key lessons that could be relevant for the energy transition. These reviews will focus on programs intended to support a displaced workforce or underserved communities.
  • Improving a Leading Electricity Sector Environmental Policy Analysis Model. This project will develop new features for RFF’s E4ST model that include a representation of the generation capacity reserve requirements in each region of the US, and representations of the proposed and potential wind farms off the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including their capacities, locations, and locations of connections to the existing power grid.
  • Assessing Potential Future Changes in Critical Minerals Prices & the Implications for EVs. The project is part of a broader assessment of driving forces for critical minerals supplies and prices, and the implications for costs of electric vehicle (EV) batteries and the vehicles themselves. Using engineering and economics related information collected by RFF about those driving forces and their implications, supplemented as needed by additional data collection, the intern will conduct an empirical analysis of prospective changes in future mineral prices and the knock-on effects for battery and vehicle costs.  The empirical analysis may entail a mix of statistical estimation and use of bottom-up models for battery production into which changes in mineral prices can be incorporated.

IMET Undergraduate Summer Internship

January 11, 2023

IMET Undergraduate Summer Internship
June 5, 2023 – August 4, 2023
Apply by February 10, 2023 for best consideration

Marine and environmental sciences are crucial for the future of human health, food, water and energy. The nine-week internship connects you to a hands-on research project. Interns will receive an orientation to working in a lab, seminars on molecular techniques relevant to fisheries, aquaculture, energy production, and environmental research. Group activities will promote science communication, professional and life skill development.

IMET and UMCES are committed to creating opportunities for a diverse body of undergraduates to enable and encourage students from underserved communities to continue on to higher degrees and careers in marine and environmental science.

Internship Benefits: This full time internship includes a stipend of $5,400 for the nine-week period. IMET intends to provide no-cost summer housing for students from outside the Baltimore metropolitan area.

Internship Eligibility: This internship is most applicable to undergraduate students studying biology, marine science, environmental science, and other related degrees. (Preference will be given to rising juniors and seniors.)

Students from educational backgrounds with limited access to research opportunities and students from underserved communities with an interest in marine science and environmental science are welcomed and encouraged to apply.

https://www.umces.edu/imet/summer-internship

U.S. Forest Service is Hiring Student Interns

January 3, 2023

Make a lasting impact on the world around you and unlock opportunities for professional growth and career advancement. Join the Forest Service and be a part of an organization that is committed to caring for the land and serving people. Our mission is to protect our natural resources for multiple uses for today and future generations.

The Forest Service is hiring temporary student interns across the nation. Internships are available in a variety of exciting and rewarding opportunities, such as social sciences, administrative support, natural resources, engineering, and other foundational fields.

To learn about career opportunities, benefits, hiring events, and resources to help with the application process., visit the Forest Service Jobs webpage https://www.fs.usda.gov/working-with-us/jobs/recruitment-and-hiring.

Applications are only accepted through www.usajobs.gov December 28, 2022, through January 11, 2023. Review the job announcement carefully for deadlines and required information to include in your application.

For information regarding employment opportunities with USDA Forest Service – Savannah River contact Savannah River Public Affairs Specialist Joe Orosz at josef.orosz@usda.gov.

Internship Opportunity with Geosyntec Maryland

December 5, 2022

Hao Wang is a former EES student and currently employed with Geosyntec Maryland. The atmosphere and people of  Geosyntec are very nice and helpful! This is a great opportunity for students interested in completing a Spring/Summer internship.

The internship is in Maryland and will be full-time for approximately 13 to 15 weeks during the spring/summer of 2023. Students from the EES department are encouraged to apply.

If you are interested in working with Geosyntec Maryland this spring or summer, please contact Hao Wang.

The online application link is below:
https://jobs.ourcareerpages.com/job/774459?source=ccp&key=KJnJlVxVcDy0M5plmQadh%2frqicBWGYRKDEJhVEkBm20%3d

Hao Wang
Senior Staff Professional

Geosyntec Consultants
10211 Wincopin Cir, Floor 4
Columbia, MD, 21044

Work mobile: (410) 371-2914