Research at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) emphasizes a broad study of global change, which is an interdisciplinary initiative addressing natural and man-made changes in our environment that occur on various time scales — from one-time forcings such as volcanic explosions, to seasonal and annual effects such as El Niño, and on up to the millennia of ice ages — and that affect the habitability of our planet.

The current summer internship projects being offered for high school, undergraduate and graduate students this summer include:

GISS is located at Columbia University in New York City. The institute is a laboratory in the Earth Sciences Division of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and is affiliated with the Columbia Institute and School of Engineering and Applied Science.

• Atmospheric Rivers in a Changing Climate
• Characterizing the Urban Land Surface Temperature
• Earth Observation Applications for Resiliency
• Climate Change in the Hudson Estuary
• Analysis of Climate Model Simulations
• Data Management and Dissemination for the NASA Research Scanning Polarimeter
• Hardware and connectivity upgrades for the NASA Research Scanning Polarimeter
• Live Monitor for the NASA Research Scanning Polarimeter
• Smartphone monitoring application for the NASA Research Scanning Polarimeter
• Water Mass formation rates and pathways in the World Ocean
• New method to estimate cloud droplet number concentration using remote sensing 
• Construction of a flexible cloud mask from spaceborne lidar atmospheric profiles 

The application period for the summer closes on March 8^th. Students are encouraged to apply early at:  https://intern.nasa.gov .