Outside Opportunities

We will continue to update this page with summer research opportunities, internships, and other programs that may be of interest to EES students. Inclusion here does not indicate any particular endorsement of these programs by the department.

Before exploring opportunities you may want to read American Geosciences Institute's .

Summer Research Opportunities

  • : Work as an intern with the American Geosciences Institute.
  • : An NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site led by Concord University (West Virginia) and Montana State University.
  • : CCL is a national nonprofit organization that builds grassroots support for climate legislation.
  • : Summer opportunity for students who are Massachusetts residents to intern at a clean energy company.
  • : Summer research program in Ecology at Harvard Forest.
  • : Research experience at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
  • : An 11-week research experience coordinated through Harvard’s world-class ecological research hub in Petersham, Massachusetts.
  • (IN FISH): A 10-week paid undergraduate internship for U.S. citizens in an NOAA or partner institution doing marine or environmental research or doing policy work related to resource management.
  • : An internship in marine conservation.
  • : MSRP is an intensive 9-week research program designed to fully immerse students in the MIT experience.
  • : The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine administers postdoctoral and senior research awards at participating federal laboratories and affiliated institutions at locations throughout the U.S. and abroad. They are seeking highly qualified candidates who hold, or anticipate earning, a doctorate in a variety of fields of science or engineering. Degrees from foreign universities should be equivalent in training and research experience to a doctoral degree from a U.S. institution. Citizenship eligibility varies among the sponsoring laboratories.
  • : a one-week, residential, summer physics workshop program for undergraduates interested in the science of extreme pressure and high-energy-density physics. 
  • : Students will work on individual research projects with Cornell faculty and research staff on a wide range of topics in planetary science, solar system exploration, astrobiology, exoplanets, radio, infrared, and submillimeter astronomy, and related theoretical topics as well as astronomical instrumentation.
  • : Maryland Sea Grant Summer REU program.
  • : Research opportunity at the Joint Institute for Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington.
  • : An NSF-Funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Delaware.
  • : Field geology courses at the Brauer Field Station.

Full-Time Employment Opportunities

Clean Energy Jobs

curates entry-level, clean energy career opportunities for graduating/interning college students and recent graduates, and organizes them by degree, major, and industry.

Other Opportunities

Ecosystems Field Study

The  is an opportunity to practice scientific field research skills; accredited by the University of Montana at Missoula.