Internship Details

Students who participate in the MSU geodesy internship program will:

• Participate in a geodesy bootcamp that will provide a solid foundation of geodesy background, techniques, and tools.

• Work with a faculty mentor to develop and carry out a meaningful research project.

• Learn about educational opportunities and career paths in geodesy through presentations by MSU and outside geodesy professionals

• Create a research poster for their project and present their results at the Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences

Students will work on projects with faculty mentors at MSU.  Projects will depend on student background and interest, but possible projects include:

• Evaluating time varying surface deformation in Alaska

• Developing catalogs of earthquake models

• Building and testing plate motion models for eastern Russia and Alaska

• Assessing data quality from new network of GNSS sites in Alaska (ACORN)

• Assessing and expanding the data and benchmark information available through the National Geodetic Survey's online databases

• Developing automated tools to set up and run earthquake models that use geodetic data

• Analyzing GNSS time series for a range of tectonic and non-tectonic signals in a region of student's interest