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Geospatial Data Intern

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Off-cycle Internship
  • Data
  • Washington, DC

Requirements

  • Pursuing or completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree in in geography, urban planning, atmospheric science, statistics or related field.
  • Some experience with geographic information software (QGIS or ArcGIS) preferred.

Responsibilities

  • In this role you will work to support two data initiatives: mapping global urban land use and land cover (LULC) and modeling urban air temperature. You will collaborate with geospatial data scientists to validate WRI’s new LULC dataset and to build a network of geographic data in support of urban air temperature models. You will be supported by the Global Cities Data & Tools team and will report to Drs. Ruth Engel and Elizabeth Wesley.
  • Internship Learning Outcomes:
  • Working with both raster and vector geospatial data.
  • Validating geospatial data and products.
  • Implementing and documenting methodology.
  • Reporting results in written, tabular, and visual form.

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1982
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Mission & Purpose

WRI's mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. We organize our work around six critical goals that the world must achieve this decade in order to secure a sustainable future: Climate: Protect communities and natural ecosystems from damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions, and generate opportunities for people by catalyzing a global transition to a low-carbon economy. Energy: Drive the scale-up of clean, affordable power systems throughout the world to deliver sustainable socio-economic development. Food: Ensure the world’s food systems reduce their impact on the environment, drive economic opportunity, and sustainably feed 9.6 billion people by 2050. Forests: Alleviate poverty, enhance food security, conserve biodiversity, and mitigate climate change by reducing forest loss and restoring productivity to degraded, deforested lands. Water: Achieve a water-secure future by mapping, measuring, and mitigating global water risks. Cities and Transport: Improve quality of life in cities by developing and scaling environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable urban and transport solutions. We design solutions for and analyze these six critical goals through the lenses of our three Centers of Excellence which focus on Governance, Business and Finance.