CSIRO Undergraduate Vacation Studentships - Oceans & Atmosphere

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The Opportunity

• Get hands-on research experience in Australia’s leading scientific research organisation. 
• Access CSIRO's world-class facilities and work with a supportive team to deliver solutions with real impact.
• Launch your career in science and apply for a CSIRO Vacation Studentship today!

Our Undergraduate Vacation Studentships are run over the Australian summer holidays and offer high achieving and promising undergraduate students the opportunity to collaborate with CSIRO researchers in our world class facilities.

Students will have the chance to work on a real project in science, technology or a related field such as science communication.

Participation in the Vacation Studentship Program has influenced countless students in their choice of further study and future career options. Many have gone on to pursue a PhD and/or built successful research career; either within CSIRO, universities, or industry.

Understanding our oceans, coasts, climate and atmosphere is fundamental to Australia's sustainable development and prosperity. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere undertakes science to ensure a healthy coastal and marine ecosystem and atmospheric environment now and into the future.. For more information please see our website at Oceans and Atmosphere (link).

The Oceans and Atmosphere team have the following vacation studentship available:

Project Title:   Evaluating Australia's earliest daily satellite data record

Location:  Hobart, TAS
Stipend:  $1,655.32 per fortnight
Duration: Placement is full time for 8 - 12 weeks between late November and February
Reference:  86645

Project Description
CSIRO holds a unique collection of daily satellite data covering Australia from the mid-1980's.  The first 5-7 years of the data have just been recovered from magnetic tape archives and need to be prepared for integration and use in long-term environmental research.  As some of the earliest observations of the Australian land and ocean estate, these data will be enormously significant for long-term change studies and, in particular, for climate change research. The project will decode the data, and develop short processing workflows to create trial imagery products that will be used to assess quality and catalogue the data leading to their publication as data sets in the CSIRO data portal.  The project would suit a candidate with data science and/or scientific computing skills, and who is interested in the basic principles and techniques of satellite earth observation.

Project Duties/Tasks
The project can include combinations of several elements (depending on the interests of the candidate), including:

• familiarisation with basic earth observation methods & algorithms
• software development
• workflow integration (using new and existing software tools)
• cloud computing environments
• data processing (satellite imagery)
• data management (cataloguing, databases)
• satellite data assessment
• data publication

Relevant Fields of Study

• Space - Satellite Earth Observation
• Oceanography. 
• Land use and land use change. 
• Data science and data engineering

Contact: For more details please contact Dr Edward King by phone on (03) 6232 5334 or email edward.king@csiro.au

Vacation studentships are intended for students who:

• are enrolled in an undergraduate degree at an Australian university
• have completed 3 years (full-time equivalent) of an undergraduate course, however exceptional second-year students may be considered;
• have a strong academic record (credit average or higher)
• intend to pursue a research career in science or technology, or a career in a related discipline; and
• are able to undertake a full-time placement for 8-12 weeks over the university summer vacation period.

Eligibility

Applications for these studentships are open to Australian and New Zealand Citizens, Australian Permanent Residents and International students who have full work rights for the duration of the placement (do not require visa sponsorship).

Appointment to this role may be subject to conditions including provision of a national police check as well as other security/medical/character clearance requirements.

How to Apply

To apply for an Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship you will be required to:

1. submit a Resume/CV and Cover Letter (as one document) in the ‘Resume/CV’ field which includes:
   • the reasons why the research project/s you have selected are of interest to you and how your skills/knowledge meet the project requirements; and
   • an outline of your longer-term career aspirations and how this program will help you achieve them.
2. upload your academic results in the ‘Cover Letter’ field;
3. in the ‘Education’ section select your university from the Educational Institute list; 
4. in the ‘Job-Specific Information’ section select ‘Not Applicable’ for both Preference 1 and Preference 2; and enter your Grade Point Average (GPA) as per the University Admission Centre’s methodology.  If you have a WAM, please read the Methodology on this site and calculate a GPA using the formula provided.

If you experience difficulties applying online call 1300 984 220 and someone will be able to assist you. Outside business hours please email: careers.online@csiro.au.

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Applications Close

Monday 8 August 2022, 11:00pm AEST