CONSERVE/DAWN Undergraduate Summer 2021 Internship Program

The leading team of scientists and educators at CONSERVE is facilitating the adoption of transformative on‐farm water treatment solutions that can enable the safe use of nontraditional irrigation water (e.g., advanced treated wastewater, return flows) on food crops. While DAWN is developing a decision support system that helps to increase land, nutrient, and water use efficiency in order to maximize crop production in maize, soy, and bioenergy fields. Their vision is to be a collective national resource bringing together research, outreach, and education to effectively reduce the nation’s food, energy and water challenges that are exacerbated by climate change.

With projects located throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, they are looking for undergraduate student summer interns to assist them in their research and education efforts. They seek students who are interested in pursuing higher degrees in the fields of agricultural and natural sciences, water utilization and conservation, public health, data analytics, economics, policy and law, environmental education and communications.

Students from underrepresented minority groups and/or disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as those who may have a disability, are strongly encouraged to apply. Women are also strongly encouraged to apply. http://conservewaterforfood.org/summer-conserve-scholar-internship-program-1

The 8-week internship will start on June 14, 2021 and end on August 6, 2021. Interns will receive a stipend of $5,000. Additional funds for expenses (e.g., travel, lodging, per diem) are not provided. They are accepting applications from now until February 19, 2021.
The following CONSERVE and DAWN positions are available (for descriptions of the labs/groups that will be hosting these positions, please check out these websites
[http://conservewaterforfood.org/2021-summer-internship-positions
http://conservewaterforfood.org/2021-dawn-summer-internship-positions])