Jackson School Students Selected for Prestigious NAGT/USGS Internship

April 16, 2015

Jackson School undergraduate Taylor Canada, and recent graduate Tyler Fritz have been selected as interns at the National Association of Geoscience Teachers/U.S. Geological Survey Cooperative Summer Field Training Program.

The program is selective and prestigious. Intern candidates must be newly graduated geoscience majors by the time of the internship, and must be nominated to the program by a geoscience field director. After an application and interview process, chosen candidates are then matched with a USGS scientist mentor, whom they conduct field work with.

About 120 directors from across the country are solicited for nominations each year, and about 50 students chosen as interns.

Canada will be studying surface water and ground water networks with Gerard Butch, supervising hydrologist at the USGS New York Science Water Center, in Troy, New York.

Fritz will be developing new automated devices and methods for analyzing the stable isotopes in geological, hydrological and biological materials with Craig Johnson and Matthew Emmons, a research geologist and physical scientist at the USGS Crustal Geophysical and Geochemistry Science Center, in Denver, Colorado.

You can read more about the program, and see the full list of 2015 interns here.