National Park Service-GIS intern position

NPS is looking for an intern for the project related to Climate Change GIS/Graphic Design.

Start and End Date: May 1, 2012-August 31, 2012.

Qualification: must be a graduate student with an undergraduate degree in geography or GIS, computer science, hydrology, environmental studies, engineering, and climate change studies, or planning with significant coursework in GIS.

Please contact for details: Walter H. W. Zachritz, Ph.D
NPS Coordinator
Chesapeake Watershed CESU
U< CES Applalachian Laboratory
301 Braddock Road
Frostburg, MD 21532
Voice: 301-689-7108
Fax: 301-689-7200
Cell: 202-437-0297

USGS - Intern position

Student Intern Position at USGS

Terms for all positions: Student will work at the USGS National Center in Reston, VA. Student will be paid by requisition contract at an hourly rate as listed in the OPM pricing table for student services. Full or Part-time during summers and school breaks; part-time during school year as negotiated, up to a maximum of 20 hours per week during the school year; 1 year with possibility of extension to two years beyond graduation. Start Spring 2012. 

Office assistant (GIS)
 
Work Requirements: The student contractor will provide support for the Project’s database development, management, data analysis, and publication activities. The support activities include scanning paper maps, geologic cross-sections, field notes and other data and using spreadsheets to set up inventories of data. The student contractor will use elementary aspects of GIS for geographic registration of map data so that the data can be used by other scientists to develop derivative GIS data layers for digital and more traditional publication formats.
Specific Tasks:

1. Scan maps, field notes, and other data.
2. Learn the use of elementary GIS software as needed for project activities, including the geographic registration of map data.
3. Maintenance of digital data bases, including sorting of records, merging of records, and entering data. Work will involve using spreadsheets and databases to develop inventories.

Specific Qualifications Required:

1. The student contractor must be enrolled in a degree program at the University, but does not have to be a US citizen. However, the student must be fluent in English.
2. The student contractor must have completed at least 2 years of undergraduate course work by June 2012.
3. The student contractor must have the ability to quickly learn and deal with new software, including scanning software and elementary GIS programs.
4. The student contractor should have a working knowledge of the major spreadsheet and database programs (for example, Excel, Access.)
5. Once guidance has been given on the task at hand, the student contractor will be expected to work independently.

Additional Qualifications Desirable: Background knowledge of geology, mineralogy, and geochemistry is desirable. Introductory knowledge of GIS software is also desirable.

Apply: interested students can send your resumes/CVs to Professor David Wong (dwong2@gmu.edu). For more questions, call Professor Wong at 703-993-9260. Please specify the position(s) applied in all correspondences.

SAIC-Geospatial Analyst

SAIC requires Geospatial Analyst (Job Number:214953)


Description:

The candidate will be responsible for the processing of GPS/IMU, LIDAR and EO sensor data from a raw format to final products and disseminations support to the Army Buckeye program in the Afghanistan theater of operation. This entails the processing GPS trajectories, performing cleanup algorithms, registering data, managing data and conducting QA/QC. Provide support and troubleshooting of potential hardware/software issues that might arise. Candidate will work on small cohesive teams, in these theaters as well as on larger teams in the Springfield Office. Selected candidates will be required to perform rotations to theater of operation at a minimum of 4 months per rotation. Longer rotations can be worked out at the candidate’s request. Candidate will have a working understanding of the collection and processing of tactical imagery and LIDAR data. Candidate should have a background in working with military customers and production of products related to the Military Decision Making Process. Should be a self starter that works well with small teams as well as individually.

Candidate must be able to obtain a Top Secret security clearance and pass a redeployment physical.

Qualifications:

REQUIRED EDUCATION/SKILLS: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (four years). The successful candidate will have a minimum of three to five years relevant skill experience including the following: knowledge and experience with digital cartography, image processing, and computer technology; knowledge of geographical information systems, geospatial production techniques, and NGA digital data formats; knowledge of and experience with GIS commercial-off-the-shelf applications software, particularly ESRI ArcGIS, ArcView, ERDAS Imagine/LPS, SOCET SET, etc.

Job Posting: Jan 22, 2012, 9:28:04 PM
Primary Location: United States-VA-ALEXANDRIA
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret
Potential for Teleworking: No
Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
Shift: Yes, 10% of the time
Schedule: Full-time

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