Category Archives: GIS

2022 NOAA College-Supported Internship Opportunities are in Handshake-APPLY NOW!

NOAA and Middlebury are partnering up again this year for a 10-week summer internship program with potential opportunities for students at 16 projects in twelve states. Middlebury will be funding three (3) of those positions. Applications will be open to first years, sophomores and juniors, but there is a quick turn-around and looming deadline date of Wednesday, April 6th.

If you have interest in NOAA science, policy, research, and outreach investigating climate trends, ecosystem services valuation, ecotoxicology, invasive species, coastal ecology, contributing to policy for protected species, designing web sites, GIS, and working on science communication and historical data recovery…then check out the link with project descriptions in the posting on Handshake HERE.

Once you review and read all the project descriptions, you will be asked to submit a cover letter with your top three (3) choices of research projects you’d like to work on this summer. Please make sure you read the application directions carefully.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE!

Summer Opportunity: VT Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Wetlands Program – Mapping Intern

Vermont Agency of Natural Resources

Spend your summer outdoors supporting the State of Vermont’s Wetlands Program with cataloguing and mapping valuable wetland ecosystems. The internship will focus on updating Geographical Information Systems (GIS) mapping products, as well as providing assistance in the form of data management and field work. The intern will learn about the Vermont Wetland Rules, State and Federal environmental regulations, how to identify wetlands remotely via desktop review and in the field, and how integral mapping is to the success of wetland protection. In-the-office support will focus on developing and improving wetland mapping products in the Esri ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro environments. 

This posting is part of the MiddWorks for Vermont Summer Internship Fellows Program. CCI is funding 25 Vermont-based summer student internships in 2022 with a variety of organizations. This internship is funded with a CCI award of $4,000.00. If you are offered and accept this internship, please be aware that your funding for this position is provided by CCI, and therefore you will be required to complete funded internship paperwork. Typically, seniors graduating in May and those who have not been enrolled for Spring ’22 are not eligible for CCI sponsored internships, but occasional exceptions are made. Students planning to transfer in the Fall are also not eligible.

Learn more about this Internship in Handshake HERE

Winter Term 2022 Wetland Mapping Internship at VT Dept. of Environmental Conservation

Spend your Winter Term helping the State of Vermont cataloguing and mapping valuable wetland ecosystems and get Middlebury academic credit while doing it. The internship will focus on updating Geographical Information Systems (GIS) mapping products, as well as providing assistance in the form of data management. In this internship the individual will learn how to identify wetlands remotely, digitize and attribute wetlands in ArcGIS, and how integral mapping is to the success of wetland protection. Tasks will focus on developing and improving wetland mapping products in the Esri ArcPro environment and include:

  • digitizing and coding historic wetland delineations,
  • editing existing wetland datasets,
  • learning how to map wetlands remotely via “heads up digitizing”

The intern will have the support of professionals with mapping experience who will provide training in aerial interpretation and other mapping tools. At the end of the internship, mapping efforts will be reviewed and then published publicly online to the VT Natural Resources Atlas. 

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Paid Summer 2020 Cartography Internship: Apply NOW!

As the nation’s leading public lands conservation and advocacy organization, The Wilderness Society (TWS) is uniting people to protect America’s wild places. They recognize and employ maps as one of their best tools to convey complex stories and connect the values and perspectives of TWS and partners across urban and rural landscapes. Their maps and graphics guide the implementation of strategic priorities and frequently and meaningfully impact conservation outcomes.

They are looking for a curious and creative Cartography Intern to join their award-winning cartographic program for the summer. The Cartography Intern will work closely with their cartographic designer, Marty Schnure (Midd Geography ’10.5), to help create compelling maps that connect people with conservation issues nationwide.

The planned location of this internship is The Wilderness Society’s office in downtown Seattle, Washington. However, as news continues to reveal the depth of the public health emergency facing the nation as COVID-19 spreads, The Wilderness Society has chosen to close all of our offices and convert to remote work until further notice. At the time of this writing, we do not know whether our offices will be open this summer. We will continue to evaluate the situation as it develops. Applicants should be prepared for the possibility that they will need to work from an alternative location, including the Middlebury Geography Department (if it is open for student workers during the summer), or from a remote location. We appreciate your patience and flexibility.

Compensation and Duration

This internship is based on a schedule of 35 hours per week, Monday through Friday, for 10 weeks. Start and end dates are negotiable between early June and late August. A stipend of $5,500 is available.

Interested in more information about how to apply as a Middlebury College undergraduate student? Please read THIS ATTACHMENT with instructions on how to apply. Please direct questions about this internship to Bill Hegman (whegman@middlebury.edu).

2020 NOAA Middlebury Internship Opportunities

NOAA and Middlebury are partnering up again this year with a scaled-down 10-week summer internship program with opportunities for 23 students at 19 projects in twelve states. Two of our Middlebury alums are helping to facilitate this process and Middlebury will fund up to five (5) of those positions. Applications are open to sophomores and juniors, but there is a quick turn-around and looming deadline date of Friday, March 6th.

If you have interest in NOAA science, policy, research, and outreach investigating climate trends, ecosystem services valuation, ecotoxicology, invasive species, coastal ecology, contributing to policy for protected species, designing web sites, GIS, and working on science communication and historical data recovery…then check out the link with project descriptions in the posting on Handshake HERE.

Planning for Resiliency: Cohort Summer Internship Program Addressing Climate-Driven Threats

Middlebury has partnered with Historic New England, a historic preservation organization headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, to offer a three PAID internships this summer working on an initiative called “The Planning for Resiliency Cohort” which will include a Design Intern, Ecology Intern, and GIS intern.  The cohort interns will complete an integrated project addressing climate-driven threats at four seventeenth-century museum properties in Newbury, Mass.
 
They are very interested in finding students with background in majors addressing design (HARC), GIS (Geography), and ecology (ES/Conservation Biology). Specifically, if you are a rising junior, this might be the perfect internship for you. The internship will include a stipend from CCI and housing in the Boston area with the other interns.
 
The application deadline is March 24th; don’t wait to apply!  Below are descriptions for each of the internships. 

Planning for Resiliency Cohort Program: GIS Intern

Planning for Resiliency Cohort Program: ECOLOGY Intern

Planning for Resiliency Cohort Program: DESIGN Intern

HOT Environmental Summer Internships: CCI Sponsored & Funded on HANDSHAKE

CCI has formal relationships with employers and there are quite a few great summer internship opportunities that are reserved for Middlebury students with funding attached. Here are 8 examples waiting for your applications with deadlines approaching. (Note, for instance, NOAA has 50 available research opportunities all over the nation!) CHECK THEM OUT.

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Seabird Research Intern, National Audubon Society, Bar Harbor, ME –Apply by Fri, Feb 15 Apply Now

NOAA 2019 Summer Internships (over 50 available), Nationwide, USA– Apply by Fri, Feb 15 Apply Now

Middlebury Social Impact Corps 2019 Summer Internship -Andean Alliance, Cusco, Peru — Apply by Wed, Feb 20 Apply Now

Middlebury Social Impact Corps 2019 Summer Internship – Cape Eleuthera Institute, Rock Sound, The Bahamas — Apply by Wed, Feb 20 Apply Now

DEC Wetlands Program – Mapping Intern, State of Vermont, Montpelier, VT — Apply by Fri, Mar 1 Apply Now

ALLSOURCE ANALYSIS INTERNSHIP, AllSource Analysis, Middlebury, VT — Apply by Fri, Mar 1 Apply Now

GeoCivics, Project Summer Intern,University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO — Apply by Mon, Apr 1 Apply Now

FoodWorks Internship Program, Middlebury College FoodWorks Fellowship, Middlebury, VT — Apply by Wed, May 1 Apply Now