Eligibility and Expectations
The Urban Waters Summer Intern Program is open to current undergraduate students and recent graduates from any UW campus, as well as other colleges and universities. Interns must commit to working a minimum of 200 hours at $12/hour over the course of the summer (mid June – mid September). Interns will be required to attend an orientation on June 8th. The summer experience will conclude with an opportunity for interns to present the results of their work on September 17th. Interns are responsible for their own transportation to and from the Center for Urban Waters in Tacoma.
To Apply
Send current resume, and a cover letter describing interest in the position, via e-mail to: urbanh2o@uw.edu. Please indicate which of the specific potential projects listed below you are most interested in. Review of applications will begin after May 1, 2015.
Position Descriptions
Interns will be placed within a number of ongoing research activities, including:
A. Environmental social science: The Environmental Social Science intern will help with cleaning data and basic data analysis for a project with the Quinault Indian Nation looking at cultural ecosystem services. The internmust be proficient in Excel. Ideal candidate would have had a class in statistics. There may be an opportunity to travel to the Quinault and work with local resource managers as part of the project.
B. Environmental fate of trace contaminants. The summer intern will assist with experimental design, performing laboratory-based research on contaminant fate (photolysis and soil column transport), and laboratory analysis of trace contaminants using LC/MS/MS and LC/QTOF instrumentation.
C. Multivariate analysis of water quality data. The intern will develop and apply pattern recognition techniques to explore spatial and temporal patterns of pollutant sources in surface waters and sediments.
D. Detecting wood smoke in indoor air: Validation of a sampling and analysis method to measure ambient levels of the wood smoke tracer levoglucosan in residential air.
E. Genetic screening of the Thea Foss microbiome: Intern should have knowledge of, or interest in, genetic sciences (RNA/DNA fundamentals).
F. Support method development for highly advanced analytical instrumentation: The Center for Urban Waters is home to one of the regions only QTOF’s - an Agilent 6530 quadrupole-time of flight tandem mass spectrometer (QTOF) interfaced with both liquid and gas chromatographs (LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS). Interns will assist with the extraction of biological tissues, sediment, and/or water samples in conjunction with developing analytical methods.
Specific duties will vary depending on the project to which an intern is assigned, but may include work in a laboratory, office, or outdoor setting. Projects are not limited to the ones described above.
The Urban Waters Summer Intern Program is open to current undergraduate students and recent graduates from any UW campus, as well as other colleges and universities. Interns must commit to working a minimum of 200 hours at $12/hour over the course of the summer (mid June – mid September). Interns will be required to attend an orientation on June 8th. The summer experience will conclude with an opportunity for interns to present the results of their work on September 17th. Interns are responsible for their own transportation to and from the Center for Urban Waters in Tacoma.
To Apply
Send current resume, and a cover letter describing interest in the position, via e-mail to: urbanh2o@uw.edu. Please indicate which of the specific potential projects listed below you are most interested in. Review of applications will begin after May 1, 2015.
Position Descriptions
Interns will be placed within a number of ongoing research activities, including:
A. Environmental social science: The Environmental Social Science intern will help with cleaning data and basic data analysis for a project with the Quinault Indian Nation looking at cultural ecosystem services. The internmust be proficient in Excel. Ideal candidate would have had a class in statistics. There may be an opportunity to travel to the Quinault and work with local resource managers as part of the project.
B. Environmental fate of trace contaminants. The summer intern will assist with experimental design, performing laboratory-based research on contaminant fate (photolysis and soil column transport), and laboratory analysis of trace contaminants using LC/MS/MS and LC/QTOF instrumentation.
C. Multivariate analysis of water quality data. The intern will develop and apply pattern recognition techniques to explore spatial and temporal patterns of pollutant sources in surface waters and sediments.
D. Detecting wood smoke in indoor air: Validation of a sampling and analysis method to measure ambient levels of the wood smoke tracer levoglucosan in residential air.
E. Genetic screening of the Thea Foss microbiome: Intern should have knowledge of, or interest in, genetic sciences (RNA/DNA fundamentals).
F. Support method development for highly advanced analytical instrumentation: The Center for Urban Waters is home to one of the regions only QTOF’s - an Agilent 6530 quadrupole-time of flight tandem mass spectrometer (QTOF) interfaced with both liquid and gas chromatographs (LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS). Interns will assist with the extraction of biological tissues, sediment, and/or water samples in conjunction with developing analytical methods.
Specific duties will vary depending on the project to which an intern is assigned, but may include work in a laboratory, office, or outdoor setting. Projects are not limited to the ones described above.
