The University of Rochester seismological laboratory (URSeismo) at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences is seeking applications from highly motivated Masters and Ph.D. students to work on research opportunities in global lithospheric structure. Research at URSeismo will involve...
Apply your knowledge... Explore your future... Contribute to science...
This NSF funded research experience for undergraduates (REU) provides interns with the opportunity to:
- conduct exciting research with state of the art geophysical data and leading researchers at IRIS institutions,
- develop an understanding of scientific inquiry, including designing and conducting scientific investigations,defending scientific arguments, and preparing publications,
- gather, manage, and convey information, using various skills, strategies, resources, and
- learn, use, and evaluate technologies for the collection and study of geophysical data.
This paid experience features a week-long orientation program, the use of a variety of virtual communication technologies to help you stay connected with other interns during your 8 to 10 week research placement, and an opportunity to present your research at a scientific meeting. Read about how this program is providing more than just summer research!
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The Conclusion
Week 8-9: Nearing the End
All the readers for myself! Week 4 + n at Harvard
Week 6-7 :
Sometimes schist happens and your computer completely crashes…
It’s the Final Countdown!
Weeks 8-9: Switching things up
Weeks 6-7: The Good, the Bad and the Computationally Constrained
Weeks 9 & 10: Saying goodbye
The final week at Oregon University
News and Announcements
Grad School Opportunity: University of Rochester
Graduate School Opportunity!
The Department of Geological Sciences at The University of Alabama seeks motivated students who are interested in pursuing graduate studies in earthquake seismology. Student support is available starting Spring 2019 via both teaching and research assistantships, including involvement in a...
Wanted -> Program alumni! Help us find those missing!
Recently, the program conducted a census of the program's 220 alumni. To date, 70% of the alumni (n=154) have responded to the survey. As illustrated below, this means 66 individuals are on our most "Wanted" list! If you are an alumnus and did not complete the census survey, we’d love to hear from...
2017 Intern’s Summer Project Published!
2017 intern Claire Doody, an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, published the results of her summer's research in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Her project, based at the USGS's Albuquerque Seismo Lab, was focused on investigating effects of thermal variability on...
2015 Alumnus publishes expanded internship project
Hannah Krueger, now a graduate student at Brown University, was an IRIS intern the summer of 2015. Her project, based at the University of Washington, was focused on investigating crustal anisotropy in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Under the mentorship Dr. Erin Wirth, Hannah has continued to pursue...
