Application period (for 2025) has closed.  Recommendation letters are due by 11:59 pm on Dec 21 (due to confusion with new application system).  Lapenta Manual is available for applicants and mentors.  This document spells out the program from application through actual internship.

1. Application process is via SmartSheets.  This used to be done via Survey Monkey; please pay strict attention to instructions when application opens.  These instructions can be accessed via this link (application survey and process enclosed).
2. Prepare the following to be uploaded to the site.
   • A personal statement
   • Curriculum Vitae (CV) or resume
   • A transcript (unofficial is sufficient) from your institution
3. Two letters of recommendation are required to be submitted on your behalf. At least one reference must be from a professor or academic advisor.  The second reference may also be an academic reference or a character reference (e.g., employer, coach) who can speak to your capabilities and interests as they relate to the internship.  Please ask your recommenders to start on letters before a link is given to you (just after you submit) to send to them.  That way they can quickly upload into our folders.  Letters of recommendation are due by Dec 17 but please get in sooner if you can.  The letters can be sent by email to peter.roohr@noaa.gov or lapenta.internships@noaa.gov.
4. If you have any questions about the application process please contact Lapenta team at lapenta.internships@noaa.gov or the contacts on this page
   • There are no more Q&A sessions for the 2024 application period.  

The 2024 Lapenta internship ended on August 9, 2024 with presentations from interns (hybrid week before, then virtual last week).  Many of the interns will present their work at either the AGU Annual Meeting in Washington DC in Dec 2024 or the AMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans LA in Jan 2025.  Congrats to all 66 interns from 5 line offices across 17 different locations!   Here are some pictures of them in action!

Hailey Zangara, Luke Wichrowski (not shown), and Paige Bartels (NESDIS GOES-R) in Florida.

Lillian Zhou at AOML in Miami FL

Mike Schram was virtual with NMFS but had venture off Pacific Coast

Brianna Salazar with OAR ESRL Global Monitoring Lab in Boulder

Justice Saxby was with OAR Air Resources Lab doing field work in Colorado and Utah!

• The 2023 Lapenta Internship ended on August 11, 2023 with presentations from the interns in a hybrid fashion.  Many of the interns presented their work at AGU meeting in San Francisco CA in Dec 2023 as well as AMS Annual Meeting in Baltimore MD in Jan 2024 and Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans in Feb 2024.  Congrats to everyone!!

  2023 Lapenta Interns in action! 

  Kaitlin Escobar in the field with OAR Air Resources Lab scientists and instrumentation.

        

  Brianna Hauke working with her mentor Changyong Cao of NESDIS STAR.

     

  Benjamin Moose in the NWS NCEP Aviation Weather Center

  

   

            

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  Carina Rodriguez '21 and Laura Cabrera '21 present their work at AGU Fall Meeting

  Lapenta Alumni Carina Rodriguez and Laura Cabrera (both Summer 2021) present their work at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, held 13-17 December 2021 in New Orleans, LA.