Graduate Student Summer Program in Earth System Sciences
Enrolled or accepted to accredited U.S. graduate programs in the Earth, physical, or biological sciences, mathematics, or engineering disciplines. Preference will be given to student who have completed at least one year of graduate study.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC) Earth Sciences Division, in collaboration with the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology (GEST) Center of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, is offering graduate student research opportunities through its Graduate Student Summer Program (GSSP).
GSSP provides students the unique opportunity to conduct an intensive research project at the world's leading Earth Sciences laboratories at NASA GSFC, located near Washington, DC in Greenbelt, MD. Many students have applied their summer experiences to their graduate theses.
The application must include:
* Application Form (MS Word document format to allow you to type on the form and print from your computer)
* Updated curriculum vitae.
* Two letters of reference.
* Transcripts that cover the last two academic years.
* A statement of citizenship/residency. Acceptance to the program will be contingent on providing proof of citizenship or residency.
* A project proposal with the name of a suggested GSFC Earth Sciences mentor. It is strongly encouraged that students contact the potential GSFC mentor prior to submitting an application if a scientist is already known. Any scientist at GSFC, WFF, or GISS may qualify as a mentor, as long as that scientist's research is parallel to the student's thesis research. If a student does not know an Earth Scientist at GSFC, we will make our best efforts to match the student with an appropriate mentor.