NOAA student scholarships (Silver Spring MD)

Undergraduate Scholarships (for students who are currently sophomores):
Educational Partnership Program Undergraduate Scholarship:
http://www.epp.noaa.gov/
The application deadline is January 31, 2011.

Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program:
http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/Hollings_info.html
The application deadline is February 4, 2011.

Graduate Scholarships (for graduating college seniors who are applying to graduate school or current graduate students):
Graduate Sciences
Program:http://www.epp.noaa.gov/ssp_grad_sciences_page.html
The application deadline is January 31, 2011.

Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program:
For program information: http://www.fosterscholars.noaa.gov/
The application is found at http://www.grants.gov from
January 1-March 17, 2011.

Eligibility requirements:
US Citizenship, 3.0 GPA
Studying a NOAA science: atmospheric science, biology,
cartography, chemistry, computer science, ecology, engineering,
environmental science, geology, geodesy, geography, marine science,mathematics, meteorology, oceanography, physical science,photogrammetry, physics, etc.; mathematics, etc.

Other opportunities at: http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/noaa_student_opps.html

Contact:
Student Scholarship Team
NOAA Office of Education
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 713-9437 x150
Email:StudentScholarshipPrograms@noaa.gov

Cartographic Technician/GIS Specialist (Fairfax area)

National Agricultural Statistics Service is planning on filling several vacancies for applications between Friday, December 10, 2010 to Monday, January 03, 2011 for fulltime GS-1371-07/09 grade Cartographic Technician/GIS Specialists

Job Duties:
The incumbent provides analysis of satellite imagery and aerial photography for the purpose of creating maps for agricultural land surveying. His/her responsibilities may include stratifying states based on land use criteria on both satellite imagery and aerial photography, selecting and delineating sampling units on aerial photography, and preparing and plotting finished maps for field use. The incumbent performs all duties in an ArcGIS 9 environment. He/she assists geographers and cartographers assigned to the unit.

Contact:
Erich Willen
Supervisory Cartographer
USDA/NASS/AFS
Phone:703-877-8000 ext.146
Email:Erich_Willen@nass.usda.gov

GrADS Programmer (Bethesda, MD)

Commodity Weather Group, LLC of Bethesda, MD, is looking to add a skilled computer programmer to help build its growing business.

Required Skills:

Fluent in Perl, PHP, C shell, HTML knowledgeable in GrADS scripting and Drupal or able to learn quickly

Please send:

A letter explaining how you believe you will add value to our firm
Resume (including GPA or unofficial transcript, if a graduate within the past 3
years)

To: Joel Widenor
Commodity Weather Group, LLC
Vice President, Director of Agriculture Services
4866 Cordell Avenue, 2nd Floor
Bethesda, MD 20814

Email: joel@commoditywx.com
Phone: (240) 207-2500
Fax: (301) 656-1425

Post Master's Research Training Opportunity: GIS, Climate and Land Use Change

A post-master's research training opportunity is
available at the U.S. EPA Global Change Research
Program in the Washington, D.C. area. The opening
is for a GIS programmer/analyst to work on a variety
of current and future projects which generally involve
climate and land use change.

Additional information at:
http://orise.orau.gov/epa/description.aspx?JobId=1200

Contact:
Phil Morefield
Geographer
Global Change Research Program
National Center For Environmental Assessment
Office of Research and Development
(703) 308-8135

NASA Internship opportunities (Agency wide all Centers)

NASA Internship application is now open through January 31, 2011. For more information visit: http://intern.nasa.gov

Contact:
Lauren B. Harden
NASA/ GSFC
Education Office Bldg.28
Greenbelt, MD 20771
301-286-1101
Lauren.B.Harden@nasa.gov

Student Positions at USGS for the National Map Project (Reston, Virginia)

The project involves working with the USGS National Map to systematically digitize and geo-reference the entire collection of historical topographic maps of the United States that the USGS has produced in its 135 year history.

Required Skills:

The specific skill sets they are looking for are students proficient in working with information technologies and with a moderate comfort level for reading maps and understanding basic cartographic symbology and information.

Interested students can submit resumes to or contact Mr. Richard Huffine.

Richard Huffine, Director
USGS Libraries Program
Core Science Systems
U.S. Geological Survey (MS 159)
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192
Tel 703-648-7182
Email: rhuffine@usgs.gov

Editorial Assist Position Open to Grad Student/Senior Undergrad (GMU)

Duties:

To work with the Editor of Cartographica: Nigel Waters , to carry out the following
activities:
1. to liaise with the publisher (the University of Toronto Press);
2. to contact potential authors in order to solicit manuscripts;
3. to select reviewers to referee manuscripts;
4. to work with authors to improve manuscripts so as to achieve the highest standards
of excellence in our published papers.

Please contact:
Dr. Nigel Waters
Email: n_waters@gmu.edu