Grad Student Internship-City of Durham // Rain Catchers Intern – Stormwater

We are hiring a second intern for this summer and through next academic year. Please share with interested students.

Thanks,
Laura

Application instructions: http://ww2.durhamnc.gov/employment/cityjobs.cfm
Rain Catchers Intern
Public Works / Stormwater Services
Hours: Monday – Friday Hours vary between 10 – 40/week
Hourly Rate: $15.00
Last Edited Date: 04/23/2012
Closing Date: 05/04/2012
Position Vacancy Status:
Accepting Applications
Description:
This is a temporary position without benefits with hours ranging from 10 – 15 during the school year and up to 35 per week during summer break.

The Rain Catchers Intern is a temporary, grant-funded position for a graduate student in support of the Rain Catchers project. Through Rain Catchers, the City of Durham will install 230 low impact development residential retrofits in a small sub watershed of Ellerbee Creek and measure the results.. Practices will include rain gardens, cisterns, native plantings, trees, and downspout disconnections. Participating homeowners will be selected through a reverse auction style process. The intern will have an opportunity to work on most aspects of the project and will have several master’s project options.

Work includes designing a process for and conducting site assessments using GIS and field visits; tracking retrofit progress using a database; assisting with water quality monitoring; inspecting retrofits and facilitating maintenance; creating an owner’s manual for each retrofit; and other duties to support the successful implementation of Rain Catchers. Field work will take place in varied weather conditions and rough terrain.

Requirements:
Undergraduate degree in environmental science, forestry, biology, engineering, or a related field.
Actively pursuing a graduate degree in an environmental, biology, forestry, planning, or engineering program.
Ability to use ArcGIS and the Microsoft Office suite.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Individuals selected for conditional offers of employment must pass the City of Durham physical examination including drug and alcohol testing. A driver’s history check is conducted for applicants applying for jobs requiring a valid North Carolina Driver’s License and/or CDL. “This Agency Seeks Diversity in the Workplace”. The City of Durham is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

CLOSED: NCSU GIST Position

NC State’s Geospatial Information Science and Technology is currently accepting applications for a Program Associate. Information about the position and how to apply can be found through NC State’s Jobs posting site: http://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/6436.

The position will be posted until the position is filled. Our anticipated hiring date is May 15.

CLOSED: Summer Internship in Raleigh: Cherokee Edge

GIS Internship with Cherokee in Raleigh—Please distribute widely

Cherokee Edge, a new company started within Cherokee Investment Partners, is looking for a GIS intern for this summer (maybe more than one). Cherokee Edge is an energy business that will take advantage of small parcel, urban brownfields to re-purpose them as telecom data centers. There’s a strong case for this model from an environmental standpoint (using Cherokee’s expertise in cleaning up brownfields), an energy standpoint (the distributed microgrid system is becoming increasingly important), and a land use perspective. We have the flexibility to be creative with the land not taken up by the infrastructure (think parks, electric vehicle charging stations, etc.).

Use your GIS education in the real world this summer! We need to overlay a number of different data sets (brownfields, cell tower demand, etc.) to help us identify potential sites, and the internship will involve creating this mapping system. You must be a self-starter and proficient in some type of GIS software. Since you will be designing our mapping system from scratch, we have flexibility about which software you use. The start date will be in May; there is potential to start earlier part-time if the intern would like. This position will probably be unpaid, but we offer you a lot of flexibility, valuable experience, and job skills development in return. You can work remotely. Someone with an entrepreneurial drive could certainly turn this into a full time job for 3 months, and if this is what you want, we can assign you other responsibilities as well. Or this could be part-time with only the mapping project. We are happy to work with the school to give you class or thesis credit as well; this will definitely be an educational experience! There is also a good chance that, with your help, this will turn into a paid year round position with the potential for full-time employment upon graduation.

Submit your resume (or questions about the job) to Elizabeth Darden at edarden -@- cherokeen.com. We will take applicants until April 13th, but we encourage you to apply early.

CLOSED: USGIF scholarships

Herndon, Va., February 16, 2012 —The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) today announced the opening of its 2012 Scholarship Program. Students studying geospatial intelligence or a related field are encouraged to submit their applications by the April 20 deadline. Graduating high school seniors, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students can download applications here. Scholarship winners will be announced and recognized during the GEOINT 2012 Symposium on Oct. 8-11, in Orlando Fla.

“Supporting student education and research with USGIF scholarships helps expand the frontier of our geospatial capabilities. Scholarship recipients represent a broad array of geospatial interests, including humanitarian operations, natural disaster preparation and response, epidemiology, transnational river politics, planetary applications, conflict along borders and modeling of river water quality,” said USGIF Academic Director Dr. Max Baber. “All of these interests exist within the broader definition of national security, so this represents a great opportunity for innovative students to be recognized and supported for their efforts.”

Last year the Foundation awarded $94,000 to 20 recipients and plans to award $100,000 for the 2012 program. Five Ph.D. candidates, eight master’s students, five undergraduates and two graduating high school seniors received scholarships from the 2011 program. High school recipients received $2,000 scholarships, and all others received $5,000 scholarships. Since 2004, USGIF has donated $480,000 to promising students in the geospatial intelligence field.

In an effort to help further the advancement of the geospatial tradecraft, USGIF is dedicated to assist promising students interested in the geospatial sciences with its scholarship awards. Students studying in fields such as geography, political science, physics, computer science, engineering, biology, anthropology, sociology or any fields in the natural and social sciences are encouraged to apply. Through the USGIF Scholarship Program, the Foundation strives to communicate to students the broadness and power of GEOINT as it serves as a great source for national, global and human security. By advancing education within the tradecraft, the Foundation is committed to cultivating a generation of synthesizers who can take data and derive actionable knowledge from it. The USGIF Scholarship Program hopes to inspire students who are interested in all that GEOINT has to offer to invest their futures in this incredibly exciting and relevant field of study.

USGIF is a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to promoting the geospatial intelligence tradecraft and developing a stronger GEOINT Community with government, industry, academia, professional organizations and individuals whose mission is the development and application of geospatial intelligence to address national security challenges. For more information, please visit www.USGIF.org.

CLOSED: Job Opportunity | Town of Waxhaw, NC

The Town of Waxhaw is seeking qualified candidates for the posisition of GIS Planner. Information may be obtained by visiting the town website at www.waxhaw.com or http://waxhaw.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={DCEC398F-DE00-4701-864C-676CC40175E4}.

The closing date for applications will be Friday, April 20, 2012.

Any questions should be directed to Wendy Davenport, HR Manager, Town of Waxhaw at wdavenport -@- waxhaw.com or (704) 843-2195 Ext. 241.

CLOSED: Great Smokey Mtns. Natl. Park: Fire GIS Position

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From:
Date: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:03 AM
Subject: [Gis] Notification of Fire GIS Position Announcement
To: gis@webmail.itc.nps.gov, giscoord@webmail.itc.nps.gov, GRSM_Resources_Management_Staff@nps.gov, GRSM_Fire_Management_Staff/GRSM/NPS@nps.gov, SER_GIS@nps.gov

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is pleased to announce the posting of a one-year long Fire GIS opportunity for interested applicants through the Student Conservation Association. Interested Applicants should search for SCA Position Number 00140614 at http://www.thesca.org/

Position Description
Your duties will include: using ArcGIS Desktop software and Garmin GPS Equipment to create and manage new GIS data layers; coordinating with fire staff to organize existing spatial data and create and document procedures for updating geo-spatial datasets; mapping/scouting previous wildland fire sites; updating and maintaining GIS data in compliance with national reporting requirements; participating in fire effects field work; participating as a GIS team member during park emergencies; developing and maintaining spatial databases for deployment to other park units.

Please note that this notice does not constitute an official notice of disposition if you had previously applied for other GIS positions at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Communications regarding application disposition will be routed through appropriate methods. Great Smoky Mountains National Park staff will respond to position questions upon receipt of a list of qualified applicants from the SCA.

Thanks for your interest!

Esri User Conference Student Assistantship Program

Students interested in participating in the Esri International User Conference Student Assistantship Program are encouraged to submit their application soon. This is a great opportunity for students interested in geospatial technology to attend the UC for free!* In exchange for helping Esri staff around the conference, students can attend sessions and network with GIS professionals from around the world.

The application deadline is April 6. Complete details are at http://www.esri.com/careers/students/user-conference-student-assistants.html. Please forward to your students who may be interested. Many thanks.

*Students pay for their own travel and personal expenses.

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