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Internships Available in Scientific Drilling

DOSECC internships are open to college students (graduate or undergraduate) and primary and secondary school teachers, worldwide. The internship must involve a project where drilling has provided data and/or materials for study.

Interns can undertake research related to ongoing or past drilling efforts. and can work anywhere you like - you can crunch data at your home institution, travel to a drill site to collect data, or go to a core repository to examine samples. You pick your own project and do your own research with input from your advisors. Interns do not come to DOSECC to work with us, nor do we provide the rock or sediment core - DOSECC personnel are not really involved in your project, except for granting you the money to do your research.

Contact your university’s DOSECC representative (if applicable) if you have questions relating to this internship.

See details on the awardees and their projects.

Applying for Internships

Instructions for Applicants

Prospective interns should prepare a brief proposal and have it reviewed by a faculty sponsor before submitting it to DOSECC. Undergraduates and graduate students are invited to apply, as are primary and secondary school teachers, worldwide. 

The proposal should include:

• a brief statement of the work (2 pages maximum)
• the qualifications of the applicant contained in a CV
• a discussion of future education or career plans
• a budget, and
• a recommendation letter(s) from a faculty member(s) or colleague familiar with your qualifications.

A Note on Budgets

Total budgets between $2,000 and $4,000 are appropriate. Please note that funding is limited to your actual work (including such things as salary, travel expenses, sample preparation and analysis, laboratory time, etc.); DOSECC will not provide funding for past or future drilling efforts.

The application should be sent to DOSECC by March 1, 2010. Apply via e-mail (dzur@dosecc.org) or postal mail:

DOSECC
P.O. Box 58857
Salt Lake City, UT 84158-0857.

Awardees will be announced April 1, 2010. 

Instructions for Faculty Sponsors

Faculty sponsors are responsible for providing appropriate training and mentoring. Sponsors should discuss possible projects with prospective interns and guide them in preparing the brief proposal. The sponsor should also submit a recommendation letter for the student. 

Evaluation of Applications and Announcement of Awards. 

Applications will be reviewed by DOSECC’s Education and Outreach Committee. The committee will consider the qualifications of the applicant, the appropriateness of the project to the time and resources available, and the potential contributions of the internship to the scientific program or to the applicant's own objectives. Awards will be announced on April 1, 2010. 

Dissemination of Results

Interns should plan to present the results of their investigation at a future DOSECC continental scientific drilling meeting. DOSECC will reimburse travel expenses for the intern to attend this meeting. Awardees will be required to submit a digitally formatted project summary for posting on the DOSECC webpage and/or newsletter. Awardees are requested to acknowledge DOSECC as providing funding, in publications resulting from their investigations.

DOSECC may also arrange, and reimburse travel expenses, for a poster or presentation at an oral session of research by interns for an appropriate professional meeting, such as AGU Fall Meeting or GSA.

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Lake El’gygytgyn Drilling Project
January-April 2009

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Learn more about the project at ICDP’s
Lake E website

Visit NASA’s Lake E Earth Observatory page and the University of Köln’s
Lake E page

Read The Thrill to Drill in the Chilland
NSF’s project press release

Follow life at the project site with ICDP’s daily reports and PolarTREC’s
Virtual Base Camp

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0829286. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions
or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Colorado Plateau Coring Project
(CPCP) Workshop

8-11 May 2009 Albuquerque, New Mexico

The Future of Continental Scientific Drilling:
A U.S. Perspective

4-5 June 2009
Denver, Colorado

Expedition 313: New Jersey Shallow Shelf
30 April-31 June 2009

Visit IODP’s expedition website

Visit ICDP’s expedition website

View the Expedition 313 video and the Scientific American videos

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