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JOBS: Paid internship at NASA Goddard

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies Group in Greenbelt, MD is looking for a smart, eager and motivated undergraduate student to intern and support web-development for a number of our earth science applications projects. This will be an all year around paid internship: half time during the school year and full-time during the summer.

Posting:

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies group provides scientific Earth systems research through the use of satellite remote sensing for environmental studies in ecological dynamics associated with climate variability. Our research has applications in global agricultural monitoring, food security, and disease surveillance.

The NASA/GSFC GIMMS group is offering a paid internship position to a Computer Science student to assist in developing a website and web mapping applications to support the surveillance and risk analysis of vector borne diseases using satellite imagery.

The successful candidate will also have opportunities to learn and assist in developing scientific computing applications and computational methods for remote sensing and geographic information systems.

Requirements

US citizen, permanent resident, or foreign national from non-designated countries

Experience and/or interested in:

  • Web development using HTML, CSS, and Javascript
  • Programming client-side web mapping applications
  • Software development on Linux
  • Programming in C

Apply

Submit cover letter and resume to Ed Pak at edwin.w.pak@nasa.gov

Posted: February 15, 2013, 5:02 PM