2021 ESA: USGS Cooperative Summer Internship Sites

Find below the list of research projects and sites participating in the 2021 ESA/USGS Cooperative Summer Field Training Program

California


Studies of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Landslides and Tsunamis

Intern: Grady Jakobsberg

Project Supervisor: Walter Mooney

Field Center: University of Vermont

Duty Location: Remote or Menlo Park, CA 94025

Detailed Job Description

Intern: Madison Panzino

Project Supervisor: Walter Mooney

Field Center: California State University Fullerton

Duty Location: Remote or Menlo Park, CA 94025

Detailed Job Description

Florida


Sea Turtle Movements and Habitat-Use, and American Crocodile Nest Monitoring

Intern: Kyler Plouffe

Project Supervisor: Kristen Hart

Field Center: University of California, Santa Cruz

Duty Location: Davie, Florida

Detailed Job Description

Indiana


Landscape Perspective in Conserving the Threatened Great Lakes Sand Dune Endemic, Pitcher’s Thistle.

Intern: Bethany Lee

Project Supervisor: Noel B. Pavlovic

Field Center: University of Louisville

Duty Location: USGS station in Chesterton in the lands of Indiana Dunes National Park, or virtual if required by COVID-19

Detailed Job Description

Landscape Connectivity and Native Bee Conservation in the Great Lakes Basin

Intern: Emily Xie

Project Supervisor: Ralph Grundel

Field Center: University of California, Berkeley

Duty Location: Chesterton, Indiana

Detailed Job Description

Maryland


Quantitative Turtle Analysis Project

Intern: Jackie Luu

Project Supervisor: Andy Royle

Field Center: George Mason University

Duty Location: Laurel MD

Detailed Job Description

Massachusetts


Greenhouse Gas Cycling in Managed Coastal Wetlands

Intern: Simone Gibson

Project Supervisor: Meagan Eagle

Field Center: Oregon State University

Duty Location: Woods Hole, MA

Detailed Job Description

Michigan


Deploy and Evaluate Supplemental Sea Lamprey Control Tools

Intern: Andrew Shapiro

Project Supervisor: Nicholas S. Johnson

Field Center: University of New Hampshire

Duty Location: Millersburg, Michigan

Detailed Job Description

New York


Surface Water and Ground Water Data Collection

Intern: Lucca Sterrer

Project Supervisor: Andrew Waite

Field Center: University of Vermont

Duty Location: Troy, NY

Detailed Job Description

Oregon


Purple Martin use of BLM Regeneration Harvests and National Forest Restoration Sites

Intern: Emily Cook

Project Supervisor: Joan Hagar

Field Center: University of Oregon

Duty Location: Western Oregon

Detailed Job Description

Oregon Spotted Frog recovery

Intern: Kayleigh Maraziegos

Project Supervisor: Michael Adams

Field Center: Florida Souther College

Duty Location: Corvallis, OR

Detailed Job Description

Pennsylvania


Assessment of Pesticides and Characterization of Groundwaters in Pennsylvania’s Triassic Lowland Hydrogeologic Setting

Intern: Denise Del Rosario

Project Supervisor: Matthew Conlon

Field Center: George Mason University

Duty Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania

Detailed Job Description

Surface Water and Ground Water Data Collection

Intern: Hallie Dickerson

Project Supervisor: Andrew Waite

Field Center: Austin College

Duty Location: Milford, PA

Detailed Job Description

Near Real-Time water-Quality Monitoring and Modeling in York County, Pennsylvania

Intern: Kinsey Funk

Project Supervisor: Jeff Chaplin

Field Center: Oregon State University

Duty Location: Central Pennsylvania, Primarily in York County

Detailed Job Description

South Dakota


Examining the Demographic and Community Response and Recovery of Northern Great Plains Grasslands to Droughts in the Context of Grazing and Climate Change

Intern: Kassandra Rodriguez

Project Supervisor: Amy Symstad

Field Center: California State University Fullerton

Duty Location: Wind Cave National Park (Hot Springs, SD)

Detailed Job Description

Utah


Assessing Impacts of Acidification, Drought, and Land-Use on Drylands of the Colorado Plateau

Intern: Gavin Belfry

Project Supervisor: Mike Duniway, Erika Geiger

Field Center: University of Tennessee

Duty Location: Moab, UT

Detailed Job Description

Washington


Habitat Classification and Change Detection Willapa and Billy Frank Junior National Wildlife Refuges, WA

Intern: Gavin Kellerman

Project Supervisor: Susan De La Cruz, Isa Woo

Field Center: University of California, Santa Cruz

Duty Location: Virtual

Detailed Job Description