{"id":353,"date":"2023-03-15T19:15:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:28:19","slug":"undergraduate-research-opportunity-in-earth-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/undergraduate-research-opportunity-in-earth-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Research and Internship Opportunity in Earth Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More programs to be added! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">United States<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Program<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Focus<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/initiatives\/reu\/students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The U.S. National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduate<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/initiatives\/reu\/students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NSF REU<\/a>)<\/td><td>All discipline. NSF funds different program every year. Examples: <br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/reuslawr.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/reuslawr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sustainable Land and Water Resources REU<\/a> (Integrating indigenous knowledge in Earth Science)<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/criticalzone.org\/hub\/critical-zone-collaborative-network-research-experiences-for-undergraduate-cznet-reu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Critical Zone Collaborative Network REU<\/a>, Environmental Science and Hydrology<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/cw3e.ucsd.edu\/cw3e-internship-program\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cw3e.ucsd.edu\/cw3e-internship-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for Western Weather and Water Extreme, SIO<\/a><\/td><td>Climate Science, Hydrology<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/ciroh.ua.edu\/education-and-outreach\/usgs-flow-academy\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ciroh.ua.edu\/education-and-outreach\/usgs-flow-academy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USGS FLOW Academy<\/a><\/td><td>Hydrology<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/special-topics\/national-science-foundation\/usgs-internship-opportunities\/hydrology-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USGS Hydrology Research Opportunities<\/a><\/td><td>Hydrology<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.battelle.org\/us\/en\/neon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network)<\/a><\/td><td>Ecology and Ecohydrology, Fieldwork<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/edec.ucar.edu\/students\/nessi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The NSF NCAR Earth System Science Internship (NESSI)<\/a> <\/td><td>Atmospheric Science<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/soars.ucar.edu\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/soars.ucar.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NSF SOARS with UCAR<\/a><\/td><td>Atmospheric Science and related fields<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/lbl.gov\/eesa-student-opportunities\/nextgen-nuclear-waste-disposal-internship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Earth &amp; Environmental Sciences Area<\/a><\/td><td>Environmental Science, specifically contaminations in rocks<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/kgs.ku.edu\/geohydrology-internship-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kansas Geological Survey Geohydrology Internship Program<\/a><\/td><td>Hydrology<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"http:\/\/e USDA Pathways Programs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USDA Pathway Programs<\/a><\/td><td>Natural Resources<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcs.usda.gov\/about\/careers\/nrcs-employment-and-recruitment-resources\">USDA NRCS Internships<\/a><\/td><td>Natural Resources<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspeneg.com\/news\/aspen-2025-summer-internship-program\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.aspeneg.com\/news\/aspen-2025-summer-internship-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aspen Environmental Group Summer Internship<\/a> <\/td><td>Environmental assessment<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu\/public\/employment\/summer_internships_2026.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Georgia Coastal Ecosystem LTER<\/a><\/td><td>Ecology<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauicefield.org\/students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Juneau Icefield Research Program<\/a><\/td><td>Polar Sciences<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aquariumofpacific.org\/multimedia\/celp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The CELP Scholar Program<\/a><\/td><td>Marine Biology<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/what-we-do\/educate\/undergraduate-programs\/summer-student-fellowship\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/what-we-do\/educate\/undergraduate-programs\/summer-student-fellowship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summer Student Fellowship<\/a> <\/td><td>Oceanography<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisheries.noaa.gov\/topic\/careers-more\/internships-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NOAA Fisheries Programs<\/a><\/td><td>Marine Science<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/conservationscholars.yale.edu\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/conservationscholars.yale.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yale Conservation Scholars<\/a><\/td><td>Environmental Conservation<\/td><\/tr><tr><td> <a href=\"https:\/\/research.sdsu.edu\/undergrad\/surp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">San Diego State University Undergraduate Research Program<\/a><\/td><td>All discipline<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graddiv.ucsb.edu\/ucsb-csu-sri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UCSB-CSU Summer Research Institute<\/a>  (CSU Channel Islands, Fullerton, Long Beach, and Northridge)<\/td><td>All discipline<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/cas.okstate.edu\/onramp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oklahoma State University<\/a><\/td><td>Biology<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/fellowships\/undergraduate-opportunities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oregon State University Sea Grant<\/a><br>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/fellowships\/summer-scholars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> A Work-Ready Training Program<\/a><br>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/oasis\/oasis-students\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/oasis\/oasis-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Applied Sustainability Internship<\/a><\/td><td>Marine science, policy, and management<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"http:\/\/The NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship<\/a><\/td><td>Coastal resource management<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/environmental-careers\/internships\">Environmental Defense Fund Internship Program<\/a><\/td><td>Environmental Science<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Job Boards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pathwaystoscience.org\/Undergrads.aspx\">PathwaysToScience.org\/Undergrads<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterboards.ca.gov\/about_us\/employment\/student_programs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California State Water Resources Control Board<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scripps.ucsd.edu\/esys\/jobs-internships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Featured opportunities by UC San Diego<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.edu\/cas\/environmental-ocean-sciences\/careers-and-internships.php\">Featured opportunities by USD<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cuahsi.org\/job-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CUAHSI Job Board<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">International internship\/ \u65e5\u672c\u306e\u5927\u5b66\u304b\u3089<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakatani-foundation.jp\/business\/ries\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nakatani-foundation.jp\/business\/ries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u4e2d\u8c37\u533b\u5de5\u8a08\u6e2c\u6280\u8853\u632f\u8208\u8ca1\u56e3<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.eu\/ja\/training-young-scientists-engineers\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.eu\/ja\/training-young-scientists-engineers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\/<\/a>Nakatani RIES (Any STEM topic, depending on the lab matching)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/admissions.oist.jp\/ja\/oist-research-internship-program-description\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/admissions.oist.jp\/ja\/oist-research-internship-program-description\" target=\"_blank\">OIST \u6c96\u7e04\u79d1\u5b66\u6280\u8853\u5927\u5b66\u9662\u5927\u5b66<\/a> (Not focused on Earth Science topics, but may be available depending on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/admissions.oist.jp\/ja\/availability-faculty-project-hosting-research-internship-program\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/admissions.oist.jp\/ja\/availability-faculty-project-hosting-research-internship-program\" target=\"_blank\">matching<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.eu\/ja\/training-young-scientists-engineers-vine\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.eu-japan.eu\/ja\/training-young-scientists-engineers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>\u30f4\u30eb\u30ab\u30cc\u30b9<\/strong>\u7814\u4fee\/<strong>Vulcanus in Europe<\/strong><\/a> (Engineering)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More programs to be added! United States Program Focus The U.S. National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduate (NSF REU) All discipline. NSF funds different program every year. Examples: Sustainable Land and Water Resources REU (Integrating indigenous knowledge in Earth Science) Critical Zone Collaborative Network REU, Environmental Science and Hydrology Center for Western Weather and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internship","category-undergraduate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":69,"href":"https:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarakihydro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}