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About This is a unique opportunity to work with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), the official U.S. data management entity for climatological, oceanographic, and geophysical information. Headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina and part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NCEI operates one of the largest environmental data and information archives on Earth, ingesting, archiving, and disseminating information for users representing the breadth of society and economic sectors. NCEI promotes the scientific integrity and usefulness of its products and services based on science-based environmental data synthesis and stewardship, including informatics. From the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, NCEI’s data and information drives resilience, prosperity, and equity for current and future generations. For more information, please go to https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/. While these positions are posted as on-campus jobs, the students will work directly with NCEI staff at NCEI in downtown Asheville, as well as virtually and/or on-campus. Position Overview The interns selected for these positions will focus on one of three projects: The Quality Assessment of Terrestrial Climate Data Records (CDRs). This will include performing statistical intercomparison of NDVI, LAI, and FAPAR CDR data sets to independent satellite and ground-based datasets and creating data visualizations of intercomparison results. A Revamped Historical Climate Record Events Database. The intern will work to revamp the State Climate Extremes Committee (SCEC) and National Climate Extremes Committee (NCEC) record event website and create a database to store attributes for all historical record events. Currently, records are manually updated and stored in flat files on a workstation rather than in a database, which would ensure the preservation of information for all former extreme records. - The Preservation of Climate and Weather Records. The intern will work to support the preservation of physical weather and climate records through research, quality control, and digitization and scanning activities.
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