Short-term (2-3 week) employment opportunities are made available at the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences. All interested Harvard students are encouraged to apply (preferences will be given to rising sophomores and incoming first year students).
Welcome to the EPS Short-Term Student Program. This is a program offered by the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS), and offers opportunities to Harvard undergraduate students to get to know the department better by getting involved in the activities of various research groups. Priorities will be given to first year and sophomore students, but we also accept applications from upper year students.
Because the summer 2020 program was so successful, we hope to offer these short-term positions on a regular basis. Please check the EPS Short-Term Student Program web page for future positions.
For the summer of 2020, all positions have closed and there will be no more postings. If you are interested in receiving notifications about events and opportunities at EPS (including 2021 Short-Term Summer Student Program), please fill out this Google Form to be included in the EPS mailing list.
You can see the appliation statistics and comments from participating students from 2020 summer program:
learn how active faults made today's landscape
application: closed (July 31-August 4)
number of applications: 46
number of available positions: 2
hired: 2 students
Caroline Choi (incoming first year)
Margarita Bogdanova-Shapkina (incoming first year)
investigate changes in pollutants at cities and rural areas
application: closed (July 31-August 4)
number of applications: 101
number of available positions: 1
hired: 2 students
Stacey Fabo (incoming first year)
Muriel Dol (incoming first year)
test new digitization software prior to public release
application: closed (July 31-August 4)
number of applications: 51
number of available positions: 2
hired: 2 students
Laura Appleby (incoming first year)
Joseph Brower (incoming first year)
understand current and historical locust outbreaks
application: closed (July 29-31)
number of applicants: 19
number of available positions: 1
hired: 1 student
Catherine Liang (incoming first year)
examine trends in air pollutants and greenhouse gases
application: closed (July 29-31)
number of applicants: 26
number of available positions: 2
hired: 2 students
Eleftheria Lambropoulos (rising sophomore)
Eric Reyes-Munoz (rising sophomore)
model spread of COVID and relate to the environment
application: closed (July 17-21)
number of applicants: 28
number of available positions: 2
hired: 3 students
Ariana-Dalia Vlad (incoming first year)
Cindy Wang (incoming first year)
David Hacker (rising sophomore)
help convert simple climate calculations and effective data visualization codes
application: closed (July 16 - 20)
number of applicants: 8
number of available positions: 1
hired: 2 students
Sofiya Lysenko (incoming first year)
Stephanie Lin (incoming first year)
interview biogeochemists for web updates
application: closed (July 8-10)
number of applicants: 14
number of available positions: 1
hired: 3 students
Marie Ayiah (rising sophomore)
Lauren Chen (incoming first year)
John Hatcher (incoming first year)
digitize sediment chemistry data
application: closed (July 6-8)
number of applicants: 43
number of available positions: 1
hired: 2 students
Martha Denton (rising sophomore)
Leah Teichholtz (incoming first year)
explore raindrop sizes and weather
application: closed (July 6-8)
number of applicants: 67
number of available positions: 1
hired: 2 students
Tabasom Monfared (incoming first year)
Kathleen Bellon Pizarro (incoming first year)
explore the link between glaciers and mountain heights
application: closed (July 1 - 6)
number of applicants: 63
number of available positions: 1
hired: 1 student
Talon Flodman (incoming first year)
run climate models
application: closed (July 1 - 6)
number of applicants: 89
number of available positions: 1
hired: 41 students (24 incoming first years and 17 rising sophomores), see project page for a list of students