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NOAA College-Supported Internship Program

Current Opportunities

These opportunities are for NOAA’s College-Funded Internship Program. NOAA partners with colleges to provide undergraduate students summer internship experience in science, policy, and science communication. Students must be enrolled at a partner school to participate and apply through that school. See more information in the How to Apply section of the Program Overview page.

Note: Please do not apply to NOAA or contact NOAA mentors directly.

About This Program

Other NOAA Opportunities

Sea turtle conservation and recovery under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (Silver Spring, MD, Beaufort, NC, or Virtual)

/ Maryland, North Carolina, Internships, Research

Mapping Estuarine Habitats/Plant Communities and Studying the Effects of climate and sea level rise on a data set of Red Cedars at Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Falmouth/Mashpee, MA)

/ Massachusetts, Internships, Research

North Atlantic Right Whale Community Engagement Product Development

/ Internships, Science Communication

Comparative study of marine mammal bycatch self-reports and observer reports  (Silver Spring, MD or Virtual)

/ Maryland, Internships

Deliver ocean acidification information to people who need it (Silver Spring, MD or Virtual)

/ Maryland, Internships, Science Communication

National Observer Program Rebrand (Highlands, NJ or Virtual)

/ New Jersey, Internships, Science Communication

Engineering and Accessibility Support for NOAA Fisheries and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fish Passage Guidelines   (Silver Spring, MD or Virtual)

/ Maryland, Internships, Research

Predation Challenges at Hydropower Dams (Silver Spring, MD or Virtual)

/ Maryland, Internships, Research

Marine Mammal Conservation through Literature Management – EndNote and Guidance Development (Silver Spring, MD or Virtual)

/ Maryland, Internships, Research

Developing an outreach toolkit for NOAA Fisheries Southeast (Southeast, US or Virtual)

/ Florida, Texas, Internships, Science Communication

Developing graphics and social media content for NOAA Fisheries Southeast (Southeast, US or Virtual)

/ Florida, Texas, Internships, Science Communication

Website refresh and content creation for Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary’s website (Hawaii or Virtual)

/ Hawaii, Internships, Science Communication

Science communication through social media content creation for Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary (Hawaii or Virtual)

/ Hawaii, Internships, Science Communication

Explore fisheries rulemaking and management in the Southeast United States (St. Petersburg, FL)

/ Florida, Internships, Research

Translating and Communicating Drifter Science with the Adopt a Drifter Program (Silver Spring, MD or Virtual)

/ Maryland, Internships, Science Communication

Marine Mammal Stranding Data Intern with NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center

/ Florida, Internships, Research

Monitoring the changing surface ocean temperatures with the Adopt a Drifter Program utilizing Python Jupyter Notebooks (Miami, FL or Virtual)

/ Florida, Internships, Research, Science Communication

Endangered Species Act Large Whale Recovery (Silver Spring, MD or Virtual)

/ Maryland, Internships

The importance of fisheries pressure on coral reefs in CNMI and USVI (Silver Spring, MD)

/ Maryland, Internships, Research

Investigating Seasonality and Phenology of Water Quality and Meteorological Changes at Waquoit Bay (Falmouth, MA)

/ Massachusetts, Internships, Research