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Anthropology - Geography Internships

Students in the Ant-Geog program are expected to take the initiative in locating and arranging their own internships. The list below contains organizations that offer or have offered internships to qualified applicants in the past, but note that inclusion here is no guarantee that a position is currently available. This list may also help to give you some ideas about what sorts of organizations you wish to apply to.

 

 

As you prepare for your internship, please consider the following:

  1. Start thinking about and searching for your internship before the term in which you plan to enroll.
  2. Consider how a particular internship will fit in with and enhance your own education and interests.
  3. Be prepared to show your potential supervisor how having you as an intern will contribute to the organization.
  4. Make sure that you and your supervisor have a clear understanding in advance about what your duties will be and how you will be evaluated.

If you have any questions or need further guidance, please contact the current Ant-Geog Internship coordinator (For 2010-2011, Prof. Greg Bohr)

  • Students will assist Applied EarthWorks staff with cultural resource data acquisition and management, and legal and technical analyses according to federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
  • Audubon Society 
  • Do restoration work at nature preserve in Los Osos.
  • California State Parks - San Luis Obispo Coast District
  • Intern will assist State Archaeologist in archaeological survey and archaeological site conditions assessment.
  • CalTrans
  • Work under the supervision and assist the Department’s cultural resource specialists (prehistoric and historic archaeology and architectural history) in the development and preparation of technical reports, field studies, and database management. 
  • UCSB center manages archeological survey and site data for SLO and SB counties.
  • California Rural Legal Assistance 
  • Provides no-cost legal representation to farm workers and low income residents.
  • City of San Luis Obispo (GIS Division)
  • Collect, analyze and update various GIS datasets. Assist GIS staff with a variety of tasks.
  • City of San Luis Obispo Ranger Service
  • Assist the Ranger service in caring for open spaces, preparing educational materials, and/or assisting in grant development.
  • Cross Cultural Solutions
  • Project areas include care-giving, teaching, healthcare, and community development. Choose from 12 different
    countries.
    Decade offers a variety of products and services, student work would depend on current project workload.
    Environmental center in SLO country, coordinate coastal clean-up day.
    ESRI is a privately-held geographic information systems (GIS) software development company.
    Assist professional archaeologists with field and laboratory work related to excavation on the Central Coast
    Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center
  • Assist in the educational and outreach missions of the Dunes Center. See the following forms for more details: Education Intern, Outreach Intern, Flyer
    The Land Conservancy of SLO is a non-profit organization dedicating to preserving open spaces, habit, and water sources, and farm/ranch lands in SLO County using cooperative and voluntary approaches among owners, agencies, and the public.
  • Morro Bay National Estuary Program 
  • GIS mapping and support for Morro Bay watershed data.
  • NASA
  • Student
teams
research
NASA
science
capabilities
relevant
to
community concerns,
create
and
complete
projects
using
remote
sensing
and
GIS
techniques,
and
create
advanced
computer generated
visualizations
demonstrating
research
results.
    National Geographic Society
    From the NGS webpage: "The purpose of this program is to furnish students a professional learning experience through participation in various projects aimed at the diffusion of geographic knowledge."
    National Wildlife Foundation
    From the NWF webpage: "Through the internship program, the National Wildlife Foundation brings students and recent graduates to its offices nationwide, where they can experience many aspects of NWF's conservation mission, including work on endangered species, land stewardship, and protecting our nation's water."
  • ProWorld Service Corps
  • Community-based volunteer internships in Mexico, Belize, Peru, India, Thailand.
  • Public Policy Institute of California
  • The PPIC is a non-profit, non-partisan, think tank focusing on policy issues including immigration, the environment, education, and economic development.
  • San Luis Obispo County Archaeological Society Research and Collections Facility
  • Assist with archive and collections management at the only archaeological collections facility in SLO County
  • San Luis Obispo Department of Planning & Building
  • GIS data development and analysis for the county of SLO.
  • San Luis Obispo County (Parks Division)
  • Various internships available in park operations.
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Several different internships focusing on different areas of the Smithsonian. See link.
  • Student Conservation Association
  • Students are placed doing conservation and environmental work at over 500 locations in the US
    SWCA Environmental Consultants (San Luis Obispo Office)
    An environmental consulting firm focusing on planning, regulatory compliance, and natural and cultural resource management services.
    Tetra Tech
  • Research assistant for environmental assessment and impact reports.
  • Upward Bound Program (Cal Poly)
  • Tutor high school students in one or more academic areas at a senior or junior high school campus weekly.
  • U.S. Census Bureau 
  • Census taker based out of Santa Maria office.
  • Vandenberg Air Force Base
  • At Vandenberg, students may work in the environment department, monitoring cultural resources, natural resources, air quality, water quality, etc. Other federal sites will provide other opportunities.
  • VsolvIT
  • Intern would work on GIS and Information Technology Services projects for different clients.
 
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