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The NERC SENSE (Centre for Satellite Data in Environmental Sciences) Centre for Doctoral Training\u00a0https:\/\/eo-cdt.org\/<\/a>\u00a0is currently advertising ten paid summer internships for undergraduate students with supervisory teams at the University of Edinburgh and University of Leeds.<\/p>\n These internships will allow talented individuals to explore how using satellite data and machine learning\/AI techniques can monitor and attempt to tackle environmental problems.<\/p>\n These internships would be ideal for an undergraduate student heading into their final year of study who is considering a research career and wants to gain experience and mentoring to support this.<\/p>\n Applications are particularly encouraged from individuals studying UG degrees on strong quantitative degree programmes (e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, etc.).<\/p>\n In additional successful completion of an internship with SENSE will guarantee an interview for a PhD studentship with SENSE for 2022.<\/p>\n The internships:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0–\u00a0Are six weeks in length to be completed during the summer vacation period (including four day paid leave).<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0–\u00a0Paid at UE03 (\u00a3345.38 per week).<\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0–\u00a0Will be completed by remote working (i.e. intern can be located anywhere in the UK).<\/p>\n – Will allow the intern to gain research experience and receive mentoring from the SENSE CDT team to support their future PhD applications.<\/p>\n Applications are welcome from students in any science discipline however you cannot apply for an internship in the department you are currently studying in.<\/p>\n Example projects include:<\/strong><\/p>\n – Investigating the potential of Earth Observation data for Conservation Management with Dr Murray Collins, Prof Ruth King and Dr Stuart King (University of Edinburgh)<\/p>\n – Investigating changing surface melt patterns on Antarctic Peninsula with Dr Ben Davison and Dr Anna Hogg (University of Leeds)<\/p>\n – Mapping forest height in Ghana to support carbon-based conservation with Prof Ed Mitchard (University of Edinburgh)<\/p>\n – Understanding extreme weather caused by convective storms in south-east Asia with Dr Simon Peatman, Dr Julianne Schwendlike and Dr Cathryn Birth (University of Leeds)<\/p>\n Please see below for details of all the projects, eligibility and application details.<\/p>\n https:\/\/eo-cdt.org\/research-experience-placements-summer-2021\/<\/a><\/p>\n Informal enquires to\u00a0sense.recruitment@ed.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Closing date for applications\u00a016th<\/sup>\u00a0May 2021<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remote working The NERC SENSE (Centre for Satellite Data in Environmental Sciences) Centre for Doctoral Training\u00a0https:\/\/eo-cdt.org\/\u00a0is currently advertising ten paid summer internships for undergraduate students … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":2508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205105,9658,9653,205104,5343,205131],"tags":[9658,872,175901,9653,184926,145910,57948,37,151407,818,149978,178057,9650],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}