Internships2022

Agriculture takes on a different look in Jefferson County, Colorado. The county is diverse with a strong urban population complementing the vast foothills. As agriculture is not an integral part of life at the forefront for the majority of the population in Jefferson County, the need for agricultural education and exposure is more important than […]

The overall goal of this internship is to provide the student with opportunities to develop skills in public history, public communication, and not-for-profit organizational management by amending and creating real-world museum management and planning documents. To meet this goal, the scope of work includes (1) supporting summer museum operations, including leading tours, to understand and

Goals Support CSU curriculum/research by facilitating access to archival data Improve discovery and exploration of archival data by enabling geospatial search Enhance existing collections in Mountain Scholar, CSU’s digital repository. Scope For a representative sample, the intern will identify suitable archival objects from the following collections to enrich with spatial metadata: – Reservoirs, ditches, and irrigable

The overall goal of this internship is to provide the student with opportunities to develop skills in cultural resource management, historical research and interpretation, public history methods, and public communication by developing a series of products related to the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Sterling Irrigation Company. To meet this goal, the scope

This internship has two goals: 1) collect prices for meat, fruits, vegetables and eggs in farmers markets around the state. The intern’s responsibility will be to collect data in Larimer County and supervise data collection at 7-10 other sites throughout Colorado; and 2) collect a defined set of retail food product data at several outlets

Scope: The successful applicant for this internship will be assisting with two projects of critical importance in production agriculture and natural resource sustainability in the SLV. Should our trials produce successful results, the potential economic impact to our community could be significant. The student will only be required to prepare and present a poster for

Climate change necessitates collaboration and an understanding of how foresters can begin to adapt management to meet the needs of a climatically-altered future. The Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) Network seeks to understand what climate adaptive management looks like in different forest types by bringing local experts, scientists and land managers together to develop

Land degradation is a major challenge in many arid and semi-arid rangelands. There is a widespread need for restoration and climate-adaptive management that promotes ecological functioning, sustainability, and livelihoods in these systems. This study will partner with RestoreNet, a co-produced networked dryland restoration project that works with local land managers to systematically test restoration techniques

1. Gather, combine and coordinate previously identified Extension Naturalist Program natural resource curricula content into course modules that educate about Colorado’s variety of biomes 2. Develop citizen science and field activities that can be integrated into the curriculum for engaged, hands-on learning 3. Recommend additional modules and activities to fill known gaps for future build-out

The long-term goal of this project is to evaluate wild wheat species for additional alleles that can enhance development of resistant varieties against the wheat stem sawfly. To this end, we are collaborating with the Wheat Genetics Resources Center at Kansas State University that houses diverse wheat species. Objective 1: The first goal of this