Student Opportunities

The Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center’s last Fall Skills-building Webinar is coming up on Tuesday, December 11th at 11:00 AM (PT). Register now for Analyzing Qualitative Data: Understanding and Using Interview, Survey and Observational Data with Alison Meadow and Gigi Owen. This webinar will introduce participants to data analysis techniques specific to qualitative data from interviews, focus groups and field notes. It will also address some of the challenges and benefits of integrating […]

The next training is Spring 2019 (01/28/19-05/17/19) and will be conducted ONLINE WITH PARTICIPANTS FROM AROUND THE NATION. Participants can be graduate students, post-docs, and early-career faculty/researchers from US institutions who want to gain demonstrated experience in multidisciplinary research and have the opportunity for significant career impact. Both instruction and research are mentored by faculty […]

Recognizing that science and technology researchers cannot solve complex environmental problems alone, the C-NSPIRE interdisciplinary graduate certificate program aims to address the longstanding need for a corps of top-flight scientists capable of communicating the relevance of their work at the science-policy interface.  The primary objective of this certificate is to provide students an interdisciplinary perspective […]

June 11-13, 2019 in Snowbird, Utah Scale new heights as we come both west and up in the spectacular Wasatch Mountains in Snowbird, Utah just outside of Salt Lake City. The challenges facing the water community are constantly increasing in number and growing in complexity. In facing an uncertain future related to water availability in […]

Available through Sept. 2020! This non-academic research internship allows graduate students currently funded by an NSF award to pursue exciting professional development experiences at government agencies, national laboratories, non-governmental organizations, industry, think tanks, etc. INTERN is open to NSF principal investigators who are supporting graduate students through active NSF awards (exceptions apply for CISE, MPS […]

Application Deadline: January 15th CUAHSI is soliciting applications from students who wish to participate in the 2019 National Water Center (NWC) Summer Institute under the auspices of the NWC’s Innovator’s Program. The Summer Institute will take place at the University of Alabama and the National Water Center from June 10 – July 26, 2019. Student […]

June 11-13, 2019 in Snowbird, Utah Scale new heights as we come both west and up in the spectacular Wasatch Mountains in Snowbird, Utah just outside of Salt Lake City. The challenges facing the water community are constantly increasing in number and growing in complexity. In facing an uncertain future related to water availability in […]

Two postdoctoral positions are available in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University. These positions will support collaborative research between Purdue University and the Arequipa Nexus Institute for Food, Energy, Water, and the Environment in Arequipa, Peru. Application review will begin immediately with appointments starting as early as January 2019. Fluency […]

Provided through a partnership between the USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center (NCASC) and Michigan State University (MSU). This program supports Master’s and Doctoral Students in directly applying scientific research related to climate change impacts on fish, wildlife or ecosystems to decision making about natural resources. During this one-year fellowship and beyond, Fellows benefit from […]

Students will learn skills to help them understand the role of economics in water resource planning. Course material will include a brief introduction to water law, basic hydrology concepts, and the economic tools necessary to evaluate irrigation, urban, and environmental water use decisions. This includes linear programming, cost-benefit analysis, residual imputation methods, regression analysis, and […]