Here are some opportunities that may be of interest:
CEH Hydro-JULES Summer Student Opportunities and Visiting Scientist Programme
- The Hydro-JULES summer student programme was launched 15-MAY-19 to allow graduate students to visit CEH to work on specific projects with a member of the Hydro-JULES team (inc. myself (!); internships up to eight weeks, paid pro rata at NERC PB8 rate (c. £20k p.a.)). *** CLOSED FOR 2019 ***.
- The Hydro-JULES visiting scientist programme intends to facilitate collaborations that will share knowledge, advance existing research, stimulate new research areas, allow collective response to scientific initiatives, raise the international profile of CEH and enable new relationships to be built in the following environmental research fields:
- The Hydro-JULES summer student programme was launched 15-MAY-19 to allow graduate students to visit CEH to work on specific projects with a member of the Hydro-JULES team (inc. myself (!); internships up to eight weeks, paid pro rata at NERC PB8 rate (c. £20k p.a.)). *** CLOSED FOR 2019 ***.
- The Hydro-JULES visiting scientist programme intends to facilitate collaborations that will share knowledge, advance existing research, stimulate new research areas, allow collective response to scientific initiatives, raise the international profile of CEH and enable new relationships to be built in the following environmental research fields:
- Quantification of hydro-meteorological risks,
- Using high-resolution climate predictions for hydrological applications,
- Calculation the impacts of environmental change on evaporation, transpiration, and soil moisture,
- Modelling flood inundation over large areas,
- Representing anthropogenic interventions in the water cycle, and
- Application of new techniques including Earth observation and data assimilation.
SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO WATER JOURNAL:
If your work is in our scope, please consider submitting an article to the Water special issue on:
Hydrological and Ecological Systems within the Terrestrial Land Surface
Deadline: 31st October 2019; I am guest editor along with my colleague Alberto Martínez de la Torre.
OTHER INTERNSHIPS:
If you are interested in what I do and/or any of my projects but none of the opportunities above are appropriate (or you are not eligible), then I'm very open to people doing short internships with me (~ up to 1 month). If you want to gain some experience in environmental science / ecology / hydrology / environmental modelling, then I can arrange a temporary desk for you at CEH Wallingford (any time of year, but subject to me being here too during the time you choose, of course).
I can't offer to pay you or cover expenses, but these days getting experience on your CV is always good and you never know where these things might lead (it's not quite as bad as Conservation Science yet, but it's a very rough job market out there ...). I've hosted 3-4 people on this basis since 2015 from school-leavers to undergraduates and they've all told me they benefited greatly from the experience.
No, you don't necessarily need to know how to code or do stats: you can choose the project and if we need those skills then I'll take you through the basics. See here and send me an email if you are interested.