High School Students
Two-Year College Students
Four-Year College Students
Year-Round Student Employment - Boulder area
Summer Workshop

High School Students

Research experiences for upper-division students (Boulder area)

Spark Pre-College Internship
Spark: NCAR & UCAR Science Education

Please note:
This internship is on hiatus for summer 2013.  The Spark team is hard at work improving the program, so stay tuned to find out what comes next!

Two-Year College Students

Technology for atmospheric observations (Front Range area)

EOL Technical Internship Program (TIP)
NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory

• Acquire experience with scientific sensing technology
• Work with expert technology developers
• Gain new skills for academic and career advancement
  
  

EOL TIP interns gain experience working as electronics technicians, instrument makers, field support technicians, data loading technicians, computer system help desk support, entry level programmers, or similar activities. Interns are paired with mentors and develop knowledge to help them in future science support careers.

Mike Daniels: 303-497-8793, daniels@ucar.edu

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Undergraduate Students - Four-Year Colleges and Universities

Research internships in climate and weather

The SOARS Program
Spark: NCAR & UCAR Science Education

• Conduct research with top scientists
• Gain communication skills and attend professional conferences
• Find a rich network of personal and professional mentors
• Receive support and ongoing engagement throughout the year
  
  

Be part of a diverse community of peers working together to become the next generation of scientific leaders. The SOARS Program (Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science) is a four-year, paid summer research internship for upper-division undergraduate science, math, engineering, and social science students. Financial support for undergraduate and graduate school study and related conference participation available.

303-497-8622, soars@ucar.edu

Computer science & applied mathematics for the geosciences

CISL Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIPARCS)
NCAR Computational and Information Systems Laboratory

• Conduct hands-on R&D in high-performance computing
• Explore computational geoscience
• Learn software development, scientific visualization
• Work in applied mathematics, statistics
  
  

Offers undergraduates who will have completed their sophomore year significant hands-on R&D opportunities in high performance computing with NCAR’s Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. Graduate students may also apply.

303-497-1288, siparcs@ucar.edu

Engineering & technology for atmospheric observations

EOL Summer Undergraduate Program for Engineering Research (SUPER)
NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory

• Solve real-world problems: design, build, test, deploy
• Work with scientific instrumentation on the ground and aboard our
  research aircraft
• Operate systems in the field
  
  

Interns in electrical, mechanical, optical, aerospace, and software engineering are encouraged to develop their own solutions as they work with and are mentored by experienced engineers and technicians.

Chris Burghart: 303-497-8836, burghart@ucar.edu

The Sun-Earth connection: solar physics, solar-terrestrial physics & related astrophysics

HAO Summer Undergraduate Internships
NCAR High Altitude Observatory

• Work on your interests, with individual attention from NCAR experts
• Gain access to NCAR's computing resources, libraries, and data archives
• Share resources and interact with Boulder's space physics institutes,
  including NOAA's Space Weather Predicton Center and CU-Boulder's
  Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
  
  

Summer appointments for college students entering their senior year and considering graduate study. Research areas include the Sun's corona and heliosphere, lower atmosphere, and interior, as well as Earth's upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere.

Amy Knack: 303-497-2174, knack@ucar.edu

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Student Employment Opportunities

Student Assistant Opportunities - Working With Us
UCAR Human Resources

• Find paid student assistantships in a variety of fields
  
  

For students living in the Boulder area, opportunities are listed throughout the year as positions become available.

Nancy Wade: 303-497-8717, nwade@ucar.edu

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Workshop for College & University Students

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