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UC Davis College of Engineering Internship Program Habitat Restoration Design Project
We are excited to partner with UC Davis and offer an internship opportunity for Engineering Students to make a meaningful impact in restoring aquatic ecosystems! This internship would work alongside our engineers, geomorphologists, and biologists to support watershed assessments, Habitat Restoration Designs, and monitoring projects. The internship is anticipated to be 15-20 hours per week for 8-12 weeks and begin late May to early June. If you are interested in Hydrology and hydraulics, drafting and engineering design, GIS, or geomorphology, we encourage you to apply! Application deadline is April 1st, 2024.
HOW TO APPLY: To apply for this external internship, you must be a current undergraduate student in the College of Engineering at UC Davis and in good standing. If you are interested, please contact the Cramer Fish Sciences Hiring Group https://fishsciences.isolvedhire.com/jobs/ directly, and include a cover letter and recent resume.
SUPPORT: Cramer Fish Sciences will support successful applicants in applying for funding through the Internship and Career Center to support their internship. Applicants are encouraged to identify and apply for other potential funding opportunities.
BACKGROUND:
Cramer Fish Sciences (CFS) is a fisheries research, habitat management, and restoration consulting firm that serves clients throughout the Pacific Northwest and California. Our mission is to rigorously apply the scientific method to afford our clients innovative and scientifically robust solutions to address a variety of fisheries and environmental challenges. We routinely assess aquatic ecosystems for habitat and then develop design enhancement actions that we ultimately implement and monitor.
We apply the same rigor of the scientific method to the design of habitat enhancement and restoration projects, clearly articulating the basis and intent of enhancement actions and how they may evolve. Our design team puts habitat needs first and foremost and leverages natural processes.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM: We have a great opportunity for an engineering intern to support multiple watershed assessments, Habitat Restoration Designs, and monitoring projects. We are looking for unique candidates whose interests' span hydrology and hydraulics, drafting and engineering design, GIS, and geomorphology.
PROJECT GOALS: The goals for the intern are to support CFS staff on a variety of tasks related to assessing and designing habitat in aquatic systems. The selected candidate will work alongside geomorphologists, engineers and biologists to learn valuable skills on real world projects that have a measurable impact. The candidate will also learn what skills are most useful in the workforce and how to develop their own plans for success in their career. After the internship the candidate will have at least basic knowledge of how Habitat Restoration projects are planned, designed, implemented, and monitored.
POTENTIAL TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide technical support for engineering design and analysis of riverine systems.
- Support the development of design drawings, maps, cross sections, long profiles, and other technical graphics using AutoCAD Civil 3D, ArcGIS, and/or Excel to convey Habitat Restoration Designs.
- Perform data collection and analyses related to streamflow hydrology and hydraulics, sediment transport, and topographic data.
- Collaborate on production of technical reports concisely describing project background, methodologies, and results.
- Support hydrologic and hydraulic analysis including data synthesis and model development (including HEC-RAS, SRH-2D, HEC-HMS, HSPF, and others).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Applicants must be studying engineering and those studying civil or water resource engineering are encouraged to apply.
- Coursework in fluid mechanics, hydraulics, geomorphology and earth work.
- Experience or coursework with AutoCad Civil 3D and GIS.
- Interest in environmental science and resource management
ABOUT CRAMER FISH SCIENCES: We are a fisheries research consulting firm serving throughout the Pacific States and Idaho. We are a growing, employee-owned company whose mission is to rigorously apply the scientific method to afford our clients innovative, scientifically robust solutions to address a variety of fisheries and environmental challenges. Our team achieves this through effective and unbiased data collection, insightful analysis and interpretation, and clear communications and publication of results in scientific journals.
