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The USGCRP is looking to fill a student intern position supporting the Adaptation Science Workgroup and the Annual Report to Congress, Our Changing Planet
Student Intern
This position provides an excellent opportunity to learn about ongoing Federal climate change activities, specifically those related to climate change adaptation. Additionally, the student assistant will gain knowledge in federal policies, interagency cooperation, and Congressional reporting mechanisms.
In this role, the incumbent will utilize their experience in the intersection of climate change science and adaptation to (1) support the coordination of interagency planning efforts for the Adaptation Science function by assisting the Inform Decisions Lead with the Adaptation Science Workgroup and related activities; and (2) provide logistical and organizational support for the development of USGCRP’s Annual Report to Congress, Our Changing Planet for Fiscal Year 2014 (OCP FY14). Apply here. Applications due by Friday, August 10, 2012
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Wednesday July 25, 2012
Featured on NASA.gov, a member of the U.S. Global Change Research Program
A large fracture is visible in a lake bed on the Greenland Ice Sheet after it drained the lake's entire liquid contents.
Credit: Joughin/UW Polar Science Center
High resolution image “For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its 2-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its surface, according to measurements from three independent satellites analyzed by NASA and university scientists.
On average in the summer, about half of the surface of Greenland's ice sheet naturally melts. At high elevations, most of that melt water quickly refreezes in place. Near the coast, some of the melt water is retained by the ice sheet and the rest is lost to the ocean. But this year the extent of ice melting at or near the surface jumped dramatically. According to satellite data, an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface thawed at some point in mid-July.” Read more… |
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Thursday July 5, 2012
Developing and Testing Potential Indicators for the National Climate Assessment
On July 2nd, 2012 NASA announced a new funding opportunity in ROSES 2012 (Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences) pertaining to the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s (USGCRP) National Climate Assessment (NCA). This ROSES element solicits contributions to enhance the use of NASA’s observation and modeling products in future NCAs by encouraging the developing and testing of potential indicators that address the needs expressed in the NCA indicators vision.
The NCA operates under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, acting as a generator of status reports on climate change science and impacts. These reports are based on observations made across the country, and compare these observations to predictions from climate system models. The assessments also analyze current patterns in global change and project major trends for the subsequent 25 to 100 years.
NASA supported research on potential indicators will contribute to the NCA’s effort to develop a robust indicator system that informs decisions related to impacts, adaptation, vulnerability, and mitigation associated with climate and global change. NASA is requesting that Notices of Intent be submitted by August 3, 2012. Official proposals are due on October 5, 2012.
For more information on this research opportunity please visit the NASA’s ROSES website and view appendix A.47. |
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Monday June 25, 2012
Featured on USGS.gov, a member of the U.S. Global Change Research Program
“Rates of sea level rise are increasing three-to-four times faster along portions of the U.S. Atlantic Coast than globally, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report published in Nature Climate Change. Since about 1990, sea-level rise in the 600-mile stretch of coastal zone from Cape Hatteras, N.C. to north of Boston, Mass. -- coined a "hotspot" by scientists -- has increased 2 - 3.7 millimeters per year; the global increase over the same period was 0.6 – 1.0 millimeter per year.
Based on data and analyses included in the report, if global temperatures continue to rise, rates of sea level rise in this area are expected to continue increasing. The report shows that the sea-level rise hotspot is consistent with the slowing of Atlantic Ocean circulation. Models show this change in circulation may be tied to changes in water temperature, salinity and density in the subpolar north Atlantic.” Read More… |
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The US Global Change Research Program (globalchange.gov) is currently advertising for a student assistant position at the National Coordination Office in Washington, DC.
GCIS Student Assistant III
New, Student Internship (up to 20 hours/wk during school or up to 40hours/wk during summer; dependent upon workload). Based in Washington, DC.
Under minimal NCO staff guidance, the assistant will perform the following tasks:
- Examines various components of the global change program, performing background research to identify existing and emerging datasets, papers, projects, people, etc., and assists in planning for the integration of said components into the GCIS from a content organizational perspective.
- Discovers and transforms available metadata and augments with additional metadata as needed for adequate integration into the GCIS. This may involve automated work applying or augmenting tools and also manual text editing to match the existing format of that information to the necessary format.
- Identifies key concepts and topics of the relevant components and tags appropriate concepts and relationships between entities and integrate those components into the GCIS. This may involve web-based research, browsing research papers and/or communicating directly on behalf of the GCIS project with authors, program managers and agency data center personnel.
- Assists with additional duties as needed.
Applications due by Thursday, June 28, 2012
Apply Here
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