Hello,
Phillip Bruner, a Professor of Practice with the Foster School, is looking for College of Engineering undergrads and grads to work with him at the UW Climate Risk Lab on their Climate Risk Wiki project.
The attached .pdf has details about the Climate Risk Lab, their Wiki project and the opportunities therein. Details on how to apply by the Sep 7th deadline are included.
This Climate Risk Lab aligns well with CEE’s Strategic Plan and provides an outstanding opportunity for students in CEE.
Join the Foster School of Business helping to create a new Climate Risk Wiki for the
UW Climate Risk Lab!
Calling all UW CoE majors: the UW Foster School of Business is leading a
campus-wide initiative to tackle climate risk with urgency and we need your help!
The mission of the new ‘UW Climate Risk Lab’ is to make the best climate risk
data, analysis and tools available to all. Our vision is a future where climate risk is
accounted for in all strategic and organizational planning worldwide.
In order to begin to fulfill our mission, we are starting off building a Wiki-based
data repository for all climate-risk related data, analysis and tools available in the
public domain under open license. We are seeking the support of 3-4 CoE interns
(undergrads and grads) who love working with diverse data and have an interest
in climate risk as well as data-driven solutions to climate risk mitigation and
adaptation. The project will begin Sept 18th, 2023 and last until early January
with opportunities to continue collaborating with the Lab thereafter.
Interns will be asked to commit to the Wiki build for a minimum of 5 hours per
week for the project duration seeding established data sources, organizing them,
making them searchable, and ultimately creating a strong MediaWiki foundation
that will make climate risk data easy to find and to extract for end-users.
Our mid-term goal for the Climate Risk Wiki is to build a community of climate
risk contributors across engineering as well as public policy, business analytics,
data science and atmospheric science domains. This is a unique opportunity to
develop a climate risk skillset and to raise your profile among open-source
research communities and communities of practice in the climate risk field
worldwide.
If you are interested in learning more about the internship please send a very
brief covering note by email, along with a resume, including link to Github profile
(or other) to Simon Park: seungp19@uw.edu More about the project details are
provided below. We look forward to hearing from you!
Deadline for applications is Thurs. Sept. 7th at 5pm.