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.