The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) is excited to offer a paid 10-week summer programming internship where you can gain experience coding in an academic research environment.
Our internships provide highly motivated students an opportunity to apply their coding abilities in support of cutting-edge atmospheric research. From year to year projects may include a combination of designing, monitoring, and debugging data ingest archival systems; creating and maintaining data analysis tools; and calibration, processing and visualization of atmospheric data collected from ground, aircraft or satellite based instrumentation in collaboration with partners and funders that include NOAA, NASA, NSF and DOE.
Interns will work individually with SSEC researchers to define the work to be completed. The intern will be provided with self guided tutorials on the programming languages and tools that will be used for the summer projects. Access to programming experts within our scientific instrumentation software team will be available as a resource throughout the summer for questions on the tutorials and summer projects.
A member of the scientific instrumentation software team will lead weekly meetings with the interns to discuss the challenges and successes of everyone’s projects. Minimum pay will be $16.25 an hour and based on experience. Preferably 40 hours a week but accommodations can be made due to restrictions to those already employed by the University of Wisconsin – System.
Dates:
- 10 January 2024: Listing of projects finalized
- 22 January 2024: Application link live
- 23 February 2024: Application deadline
- 1 March 2024 for User experience redesign position only as it was added late (see below)
- 4 March 2024 – 15 March 2024: Interviews and offers
- 3 June 2024 – 9 August 2024: SSEC Summer Programming Internship
Location: Madison, WI
Applicant Requirements:
- Must be currently enrolled at an accredited U.S. higher education institution.
- Undergraduates currently completing their freshman year or higher are eligible.
- Graduate students are eligible.
- Must be enrolled for undergraduate or graduate programs for Fall 2024.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
- If offered a position, F visa students would need to work with their home institution to obtain necessary authorizations.
Application components:
- Cover letter which must include:
- Statement of interest to work at the SSEC
- Example of a programming (or relevant) project that exemplifies your passion and drive
- Up to 3 research projects from the list below you want to work on and why you would be a good fit
- Resume
- Accepting applications until 23 February 2024
Research projects (2024 projects):
- Design and implement a webpage to create interactive plots for the UW Lidar group using Python and Javascript tools such as Plotly, Bokeh, Holoviz, and/or Flask.
- Advance and organize download and processing of various sources of meteorological and satellite data.
- Develop a series of Python Jupyter notebooks to interactively explore and visualize multi-terabyte datasets of satellite-based atmospheric climate data using tools such as Xarray, Dask, and HoloViz.
- Develop a system to ingest near-real time and operational snow products, a webpage to display the products, and provide access to users to download the products/figures.
- User experience redesign of the Global Cryosphere Watch webpage and the web-based CIMSS-NOAA weekly reporting archive. Late add: Apply Here Applications for this spot closes a week later on 1 March 2024.
- Develop linux scripts to automatically interrogate event-driven text files and display process status information on a webpage.
- Refresh and implement code to generate science products in a Docker container for the ground-based AERI remote sensing instrument.
- Develop a Python-based QGIS plugin with GUI that makes the RealEarth.ssec.wisc.edu catalog of raster and vector products available with metadata, within the QGIS Program.
- Develop a native iOS mobile app with the functionality (pan/zoom display, animation, notifications) of the RealEarth.ssec.wisc.edu web map interface with collection/category filtering options.
- Working on a suite of data delivery, visualization and analysis software packages called McIDAS, programming in either Java or Python.
- Learn about and participate in development and testing of meteorological instrumentation subsystem prototypes using hybrid FPGA real-time control and signal processing systems. (2 positions)
- Multimedia Science Communications: Create, design, and write digital content to promote SSEC science and outreach programs.
Questions?
Email Denny Hackel with questions at djhackel@wisc.edu