Once again, the US Army Corps of Engineers is recruiting candidates for our 2026 Summer Park Rangers for Hords Creek, Navarro Mills, Proctor, Waco, and Whitney Lakes in north-central Texas. These positions are full-time over the summer months, pay $16 per hour with night, Sunday, holiday, and overtime pay differentials, offer personal and sick leave, and provide valuable experience working for a federal land management and recreation agency. Serving as a summer park ranger often provides the experience and connections to begin a fruitful and enjoyable career with the US Army Corps of Engineers in various roles, including park rangers, natural resources specialists, natural resources managers, or biologists, to name a few. Interested students should email their resumes to Mr. Brady Dempsey at Brady.Dempsey@usace.army.mil .

Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Internship Program

Sea Grant’s Community Engaged Internship (CEI) aims to broaden participation in coastal, ocean and marine sciences by offering paid internships to students in any field of study, with an interest in coastal and marine sciences. The CEI is a national program partnering with Sea Grant at colleges and universities in all coastal states. This is an 8-10 week internship experience with $6000 stipend.

HOW TO APPLY: Submit ONE compiled application PDF by email to Mia Zwolinski, Texas Sea Grant

Research Coordinator, at mzwolinski@tamu.edu.

DEADLINE: Applications due: Feb 27th, 2026 5:00PM.

Decisions released: late April, 2025, funding received mid-to-late May, start date of internship: June 2, 2025

Application Content: ONE compiled PDF consisting of the following 3 elements compiled in the following order:

1. CV - (2-page limit) detailed education and work experience;

2. Goal Statement - (1-page-limit) emphasize your interest and how the internship opportunity will further

your career goals; optional: state which location and project to which you have a specific interest; and

3. One Letter of Recommendation - (1-page-limit) from a previous employer, current academic mentor, or a

professor/instructor. Letter must be on referee's letterhead stationery, dated and signed.

Local Governments

We are adding to the Trinity River Authority’s Water Resources Team! The Trinity River Authority is seeking a motivated, dynamic, and results driven individual to support impactful environmental projects, grant initiatives, and watershed protection efforts across the organization. This role provides hands-on experience in applied watershed science, environmental data management, and data analysis, supporting projects that protect major water supply reservoirs such as Lake Livingston and Joe Pool Lake. Work is split between field, office, and stakeholder settings. You will support watershed and flood-related projects, participate in outreach and stakeholder activities, help organize and manage environmental data, and assist with environmental sampling.

Required skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Biology, Hydrology, Ecology, or related field

•  Minimum three (3) years of relevant professional experience

• Working knowledge of water quality, aquatic systems, watershed processes, and environmental data analysis

• Ability and willingness to conduct fieldwork and work outdoors in varying conditions

• Experience managing, organizing, and analyzing datasets

• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow established procedures

• Effective written and verbal communication skills, to include public speaking

• Ability to work independently while coordinating across teams

Desired skills

• Familiarity with ArcGIS

• Exposure to watershed or water quality modeling tools such as SWAT, HAWQS, or CE-QUAL-W2 through coursework, research, or internships

• Experience with environmental data analysis, dashboards, or databases

• Field experience with water quality sampling or environmental monitoring

• Interest in grants, applied research, or stakeholder coordination

This position is a good fit for candidates who... Enjoy working outdoors and are comfortable on and around water. Are organized, reliable, and interested in learning applied watershed science. Are comfortable working both independently and collaboratively. Interest in watershed management, water quality, and environmental work. This role offers practical experience, mentorship, and a pathway for advancement within the Authority’s Technical Services and Basin Planning Department.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position is similar to the Watershed Scientist position but operates with greater autonomy and with more technical expertise. This scientist will support the Technical Services and Basin Planning Water Resources Planning group in a variety of functions, primarily in raw water supply accounting, flood risk reduction, and watershed-protection-related activities. The scientist will work closely with other Authority departments, customer cities, and basin stakeholders (state agencies, citizens, and NGOs) to coordinate the transfer of information regarding water availability and use, flood risk reduction, and to facilitate meetings. This position may include field investigations, accounting tool development, data analysis, reporting writing, and assistance with grant implementation. This individual will assist in identifying and procuring grant funding in support of the Authority’s mission.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Develop and maintain workflow processes to ensure timely acquisition and reporting of raw-water supply availability and usage data by the Authority and customer cities. This includes information that the Authority is contractually or regulatorily obliged to provide. It will also include furnishing water sales information to Finance for the creation of customer city invoicing.

2. Maintain water reuse accounting plans and raw-water availability and supply dashboards.

3. Assist in developing, upgrading, and maintaining water accounting software like ESRI Dashboards, Power BI, or similar. Has primary responsibility for making sure these communication outlets are up and running with minimum downtime.

4. Assist in the procurement and management of watershed and flood risk reduction, response, and mitigation grants, 319 Non-point Source, and other state and federal grants as appropriate.

5. Perform and assist in the planning, coordination, and execution of field activities for ongoing Environmental Services and grants.

6. Perform and assist with education and outreach activities with landowners, NGOs, and federal, state, county, and local governmental officials to promote healthy watershed practices and minimize flood risks.

7. Analyze and interpret raw-water use and supply availability, and environmental data. Assist in the production of reports. This will require the use of spreadsheets, statistical packages, databases, word processors, and other computer applications, as well as expert knowledge of water quality and aquatic systems.

8. Perform and assist in all aspects of raw water supply planning, watershed coordination, and flood-risk reduction activities.

9. Coordinate with staff from other agencies to streamline the acquisition of water use reporting data.

10. Coordinate with internal TRA staff and management to ensure data flow between customer cities and TRA.

11. Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: None.

FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: Limited.

QUALIFICATIONS EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree required.

EXPERIENCE: Minimum 3 years experience.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Valid Driver’s License

KNOWLEDGE

This position requires a working knowledge of scientific principles, water quality, aquatic systems, databases, water quality models, and other analyses. It requires a degree of expertise in water rights and the ability to read and interpret permits and contracts.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Must possess effective written and verbal communication skills. This position also required strict attention to detail while possessing the ability to understand how each detailed component fits into the system as a whole.

GUIDANCE RECEIVED

Follows general professional standards and methods, QAPP requirements, contract requirements, and Authority Policies with assistance from supervisors. Follows periodic direct instructions.