Getting hands-on work experience is a great way for students to build a resume and experience potential career fields. We offer internships that help students explore careers in Chesapeake Bay-related marine biology, oceanography, environmental education, and more.
In addition to opportunities with the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO), NOAA offers additional internship and scholarship opportunities around the country.
Summer Internships
Each summer, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office and Chesapeake Research Consortium team up to offer several paid summer internships primarily for college students. In summer 2024, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office will offer five internships covering a range of Chesapeake Bay science-related topics. Each paid internship will run 12 weeks (mid-May through mid-August). The application deadline was January 28, 2024. The position descriptions below can give you an idea of what internships in future years may be like. There are two different programs.
The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Summer Internship Program lets college students work and learn about science, policy, and education programming. Learn more about the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Summer Internship Program and application process. These internships are for students who will enter their sophomore, junior, or senior year of college this fall. Applicants must be a resident and/or attend a college or university within the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Applications are due by February 7, 2025. In summer 2025, we will offer these internships:
- Data Programming: Create visualizations using data from the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System and hypoxia monitoring stations and explore how annual data relates to long-term averages.
- Place-Based Partnerships: Conduct outreach to build relationships between NOAA and other natural resource organizations to support a strategic approach to habitat restoration with partners.
- Environmental Literacy Planning: Help develop a series of resources for the education community that advance the creation and implementation of school district environmental literacy plans.
The Chesapeake-Student Recruitment, Early Advisement and Mentoring (C-StREAM) Program is for college students who identify as people of color, persons with disabilities, members of the LGBTQAI+ community, persons from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and first-generation college students who are currently pursuing an undergraduate degree. These internships are for undergraduate students who will enter their sophomore, junior, or senior year of college this fall, or for current seniors graduating in May 2025. Visit the C-StREAM website for details on the program. Applications are due by February 14, 2025. We will host two C-StREAM fellows in summer 2025:
- Field Technician: Work alongside NOAA scientists to help maintain monitoring buoys, conduct fish surveys, and track data
- Climate Education: Support publication of an assessment of climate change education, and help run workshops for educators
Contact us with questions on any of these Chesapeake Bay internships.
