2017 Unidata Summer Internship

The 2017 Unidata Summer Internship will offer graduate students and upper-level undergrads an opportunity to work with Unidata software engineers and scientists on projects drawn from a wide variety of areas that overlap atmospheric and computational sciences. Unidata's mission is to support the Earth Science research and education community with innovative data access, analysis, and visualization tools. As an intern, you will use, design, and/or modify existing Unidata software in innovative ways to better support the Unidata Community.

As an intern, you will use, design, and/or modify existing Unidata software in innovative ways to better support the Unidata Community. Projects could come from the following areas:

The 2017 program is a 11-week summer position (40 hours / week) running 22 May to 4 August, 2017. Interns work at the Unidata Program Center (UPC) in Boulder, Colorado. Housing (shared with other UCAR interns) is provided, along with an hourly stipend and transportation costs to and from Boulder. Additionally, Unidata will arrange for 2017 interns to attend the 2018 AMS annual meeting to present their work.

In addition to software projects, as a Unidata intern you will participate in the following activities:

Writing

You'll gain professional writing experience by documenting your work, at both the code and user documentation level. You'll be encouraged to participate in the Unidata Developers Blog throughout the summer.

Reporting / Seminars

In addition to working closely with individual developers, you will attend technical staff meetings to report on the status of your project. You'll also have weekly opportunities to update the UPC staff on the progress of your project through informal “brown bag” talks. And you'll also be encouraged to share your progress and experiences at UCAR and Unidata with a larger community by posting to the Unidata developer's blog.

In the last week of your internship, you will have the opportunity to give a Unidata Community Seminar describing your experience and the outcomes of your summer work.

Unidata will also arrange for your attendance at the 2016 AMS Annual Meeting's Student Conference, allowing you to present your internship work to a wide audience of working scientists and other students. We'll help you get starting on your presentation and abstract submission during the summer.

Community and Professional Behavior

As a Unidata intern, you will be part of a larger community of UCAR and NCAR summer interns. Interns are expected to contribute positively to the UCAR/NCAR community and to conduct themselves in a manner appropriate to a professional environment. Interns are expected to fully participate during normal office hours.

How to Apply

Applications for the Unidata Summer Internship will be accepted starting in mid-December 2016. Applications are due 3 February 2017 and must be submitted through the UCAR Career Portal.

Part of the application process involves writing a letter of interest describing the work you are interested in doing during the internship. Please indicate which Unidata software package(s) you are interested in using or developing and how your work would positively impact the Unidata community. See the summaries of recent interns' projects (links at upper left) for an idea of the typical scope of a summer project, but don't feel limited by past interns' choices of areas to work in. You'll also be asked to provide recommendations from two faculty members and some source code samples.

Below are a number of possible projects that Unidata developers and scientists have suggested. Please feel free to expand on one of these. However, it is not necessary to restrict yourself to this list, if you have your own ideas of how you would like to enhance or use a Unidata software package to positively impact the community, please write it up and submit it.

Possible Projects

Information about the 2017 Summer Internship will be available in late 2016, and applications are generally due shortly after the AMS Annual Meeting in January. Check back here for updated information. To get an idea about the application process, see the 2016 Unidata Summer Internship page.

2016 Unidata Summer Internship

The 2016 Unidata Summer Internship offers graduate students and upper-level undergrads an opportunity to work with Unidata software engineers and scientists on projects drawn from a wide variety of areas that overlap atmospheric and computational sciences. Unidata's mission is to support the Earth Science research and education community with innovative data access, analysis, and visualization tools. As an intern, you will use, design, and/or modify existing Unidata software in innovative ways to better support the Unidata Community. Interns have a great deal of latitude in choosing a project; some possibilities include working in the following areas ( a more detailed list of ideas for projects can be found below):

The 2016 program is a 10-week summer position (40 hours / week) running 23 May to 29 July, 2016. Interns work at the Unidata Program Center (UPC) in Boulder, Colorado. Housing (shared with other UCAR interns) is provided, along with an hourly stipend and transportation costs to and from Boulder. Additionally, Unidata will arrange for 2016 interns to attend the 2017 AMS annual meeting to present their work.