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Contact: Dmitry Nicolsky
Research Associate Professor, Geophysical Institute
Email: djnicolsky@alaska.edu

*Looking for one (1) student of Junior or Senior standing*

Over the past few years, I have developed an interactive modeling tool for visualizing particle dynamics in gravitational, electric, and magnetic fields for educational purposes. You can check it out here: 

Currently, the tool includes several animations focused on mechanics, electrodynamics, and the motion of interacting particles. However, there is potential for expanding it with additional animations and scenarios. I am looking for an upper-level undergraduate student majoring in physics or mathematics who could help with this development.

Project Overview:
- We would discuss a given scenario, including physical properties of particles, initial conditions, and external fields.
- The student would then implement this scenario as an animation within the tool.
- The scenario must be accompanied by the relevant mathematical formulations describing particle dynamics, including solving the linear momentum equation or Newton’s second law.

This could be a challenging but rewarding task, as it involves solving second-order differential equations with external forcing. It’s a great opportunity for a student to apply theoretical knowledge in a hands-on computational setting.

Prerequisites: Differential equations, calculus, physics

Time Commitment: Flexible hours. The start and end dates depend on the funding opportunity. Most of this work could be done over the summer months.

Compensation: Applicants will need to apply for URSA, BLaST, or other funding to support their work. I am happy to assist in writing the application to help secure funding.

Deadline to contact: December 31, 2025

Contact: Amanda Young
Spatial & Environmental Data Center Manager, Toolik Field Station
Email: ayoung55@alaska.edu

*Looking for one (1) student of Junior or Senior standing*

Toolik Field Station is looking for a seasonal Environmental Data Center (EDC) Research Technician to join our staff. As our EDC Technician, you’ll help Toolik Field Station (TFS) provide scientific, logistical, and operational support to visiting scientists conducting Arctic research. The EDC supports the science community through the collection of long-term baseline environmental (biotic and abiotic) monitoring, management of equipment, and by providing field assistance to projects. Every day is a little bit different. To thrive in this role, you must have experience in a field based science a willingness to be outside in a variety of conditions (cold, heat, mosquitoes and snow) as well as willingness to be an active community member. Employment from May/June – August.

Prerequisites: Pursuing a degree in a scientific discipline. Inclination to working with plants and instrumentation.

Time Commitment: Start in May or early June and runs into August. This is a full time position working 40+ hours a week on a shift schedule. Working roughly 3 weeks on and one week off, repeat. Position is hourly and you will be paid overtime for hours worked over 40 hours.

Compensation: Position is paid. While on shift you will be living at Toolik Field Station. Transportation to the station, housing, and food are all included while at the field station.

Deadline to Contact: March 17, 2025

Contact: Thomas House
CFOS, Graduate Student
Email: tfhouse@alaska.edu

*Looking for two (2) ³ÉÈËӰƬ of Junior or Senior standing*

I am working to develop and parameterize a bioenergetic model to demonstrate growth potential of juvenile Chinook salmon in a mining-impacted stream. To do this I will need to characterize the invertebrate community and measure secondary production. This will provide the student(s) an opportunity to break into such a niche field as well as provide the many many research questions that one can ask using the large dataset that we will be working to collect. Field work would be a large component of this opportunity as well as time behind a microscope sorting and identifying macroinvertebrates. (The field site for this study has cabins and starlink internet!)

I am a skilled taxonomist specializing in freshwater macroinvertebrates. I would be able to mentor ³ÉÈËӰƬ and pass along this skill, one that is rare and not so easily learned. Being a part of our lab would also be very beneficial for ³ÉÈËӰƬ looking to move onto grad school as it would give them opportunities to network with current grad ³ÉÈËӰƬ and professors as well as the chance to develop guided research.

Time Commitment: End of May - end of August.  Up to 20 hours/week in the lab and up to 40 hours/week in the field. *Hours/week is dependent on funding.

Prerequisites: Fieldwork experience preferred, knowledge of dichotomous keys preferred

Compensation: Pay dependent on funding the student and mentor apply for.  Mentor is open to working with ³ÉÈËӰƬ to apply for URSA or otherwise. 

Deadline to contact: February 28, 2025

Contacts:

Gwenn Hennon, Assistant Professor of Biological Oceanography
Email:gmhennon@alaska.edu

Russell Hopcroft, Chair-Department of Oceanography; Professor of Biological Oceanography, Marine Biology, & Marine Invertebrates
Email: rrhopcroft@alaska.edu 

Looking for three (3) ³ÉÈËӰƬ (Sophomore - Senior Standing).

The Northern Gulf of ³ÉÈËӰƬ Long-term Ecological Research program is seeking up to 3 undergraduate ³ÉÈËӰƬ* based in Fairbanks, ³ÉÈËӰƬ.
*Restricted to current undergraduates, must be a US citizen

Students will have the possibility to participate in oceanographic research cruises based out of Seward, ³ÉÈËӰƬ in Spring or Summer or Fall 2025

Projects will be co-created between ³ÉÈËӰƬ and their mentors. These projects can be in physical, chemical, and/or biological oceanography with multiple mentors available.

Qualifies as Experiential Learning (FSH490) and/or thesis for CFOS degree requirement.

Prerequisites: No official prerequisites, but we prefer ³ÉÈËӰƬ who have several years of courses already completed including math, chemistry, biology, and a lab based course. We will give preference to ³ÉÈËӰƬ from the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences who have taken introductory oceanography courses.

Time Commitment: 10 weeks of full-time work** for $7,000 stipend
**Flexible start and end dates and part-time schedules possible for equivalent hours
Students may start as soon as April 2025, but most ³ÉÈËӰƬ would likely start in June.

Compensation: $7,000 Stipend, We would also likely be willing to work with ³ÉÈËӰƬ to apply for other funding sources (such as URSA) to continue working into the fall semester if that is mutually desired.

Please apply for this opportunity through this link by January 31, 2025:


Required materials: resume, unofficial transcripts, contact for references, and a statement of interest

Contact: Mike Hull
Assistant Professor of Physics
Email: mmhull2@alaska.edu

Looking for three (3) ³ÉÈËӰƬ (Freshman-Senior Standing). 

I am looking for ³ÉÈËӰƬ for both projects listed below:

1) What do ³ÉÈËӰƬ find interesting in their physics lessons? This would involve qualitative content analysis (student reports about what they found to be most interesting in their class each week).

2) How does bottom-up reflexive training about electromagnetic induction compare in effectiveness to top-down reflective training? This would involve analysis of quantitative data (student responses to questions about electromagnetic induction)

Prerequisites: None- an interest in how ³ÉÈËӰƬ learn and an eagerness to grow in data analysis techniques is beneficial. 

Time Commitment: These positions are available to start ASAP with a flexible workload and end date. 

Compensation: This position is currently unfunded. The mentor would be willing to provide technical support to ³ÉÈËӰƬ interested in applying for project funding.

Deadline to Contact: May 30, 2025 

Contact: Carol Gray
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Email: cjgray5@alaska.edu

Looking for up to 4 ³ÉÈËӰƬ of any standing (Freshman-Senior). 

*This is an ongoing project and will accept interest past the Spring 2024 listed date.*

Time Commitment: Minimum of 10 hours per week though, if funding is provided, I would be open to ³ÉÈËӰƬ working more hours if they chose to.

Compensation: This position is unpaid. But I am happy to have interns as volunteers or if they are able to obtain grants through URSA or otherwise. I would be happy to mentor a student who is funded through URSA or some other mechanism.

Additional Position Information: 

Students would learn about archiving, historical research, and the politics and context of the anti-slavery movement from the 1800s in Canada and the U.S. Through weekly meetings with the professor, ³ÉÈËӰƬ learn about how archival research unfolds and would be part of creating a valuable data base that could be used by historians and other researchers working on civil and human rights for years to come.

When this internship was conducted at a different institution (not in ³ÉÈËӰƬ), interns who worked on this project did independent research that they presented at a professional conference. I am not sure whether such opportunities would be available here in Fairbanks, but there might be some conferences that are virtual that ³ÉÈËӰƬ might apply to. I would be happy to mentor ³ÉÈËӰƬ in crafting an abstract and submitting a conference proposal. 

Contact: Sarah Stanley
Faculty, English Department
Email: sstanley2@alaska.edu
Phone: (907) 474-7335

The InsideOut StoryLab is starting to receive submissions from prisoners for a Boundaries and Bridges Story Collection. The InsideOut StoryLab: Boundaries and Bridges is a story collection from both incarcerated and unconfined writers to be distributed by portable story dispensers inside and outside of carceral settings in ³ÉÈËӰƬ.

• Type up handwritten submissions
• Write response letters submissions
• Evaluate submissions
• Work with a submission database

We are always in process with collections. This is a chance to get involved with community publishing from the ground up. Sarah (your mentor) is an excellent letter writer for a recommendation. Reach out and get involved!

This position listing is looking for up to 3 ³ÉÈËӰƬ (Freshman-Senior Standing). 

Prerequisites: None

Compensation: We can work on writing a grant for this--let us know your interest. Open to mentoring ³ÉÈËӰƬ who apply for funding through URSA or other campus entities (especially a student that wants to put together a Community-Engaged Learning award for our next collection).

Contact: Richard Collins
Faculty, Geophysical Institute & Atmospheric Sciences
Director, Graduate School
Email: rlcollins@alaska.edu

In search of 1 student of any year of study (Freshman through Senior status).

UAF researchers have been studying Earth's highest clouds since the 1990's. These clouds, called noctilucent (night shining, ) form 50 miles high in the summer over ³ÉÈËӰƬ an the Arctic. They are called night shining as the are visible after dark in the late summer. We are looking for a student to use digitizing equipment at the Rasmuson library to convert video tapes to digital files, and post those files to a public website (e.g. You Tube). Student will work with faculty members and staff. Student will have opportunity to participate in related research if interested.

Additional Position Information: This job involves working with an archive of tapes that is unique. Students can learn more about noctilucent clouds at the following links.

Prerequisites: Student should have basic tech skills be able to manage data files, maintain spreadsheets of information, and have ability and interest to learn media skills.

Time Commitment: Start as soon as possible, running through Fall and Spring. Up to 20 hours a week, with total hours ~200-300 hours. The schedule would depend on access to library tape digitizing equipment, but is otherwise flexible.

Compensation: Student Assistant Grade 2, Step 14: $14.67 an hour

Contact: Simon Zwieback
Faculty, Geosciences
Email: szwieback@alaska.edu. 

Contact: Tristan Goers
GIS Technician | Digital Services | Fairbanks North Star Borough
Email: tristan.goers@fnsb.gov
Phone:  (907) 459-1477

The Fairbanks North Star Borough is offering an internship opportunity georeferencing imagery for course credit to an undergraduate student. This opportunity involves mosaicking and georeferencing scanned historical imagery of the FNSB and may also involve scripting. This work will be completed over one semester with the final deliverables being (1) georeferenced image tiles, (2) a georeferenced, mosaicked, image, and (3) an image tile index. The final product will be an invaluable resource not only for the Fairbanks North Star Borough but also the public at-large. You will be expected to give, at a minimum, weekly progress reports detailing the work completed, any challenges encountered, and any questions you may have.

Prerequisite: Prior exposure to remote sensing or GIS

Pay: This could be a paid internship, an unpaid project for credit, or both.
Please reach out to us to discuss further details.

Benefits: Valuable real-world experience and skills that are in great demand on the job market.

Rolling Deadline- please contact the opportunity provider listed above for more information.

Contact: Simon Zwieback
Professor Geosciences
Phone: (907) 474-5549
Email: szwieback@alaska.edu

The project seeks to characterize permafrost landscape dynamics following temperature extremes and a bark beetle outbreak. It combines fieldwork in ³ÉÈËӰƬ, soil analysis in the lab, and remote sensing data analyses.

You will collect field measurements under supervision of experienced researchers. Laboratory work will include sample preparation and analysis, and data compilation. Remote sensing analyses may comprise processing and classification of multispectral and radar remote sensing imagery, and predictive modeling using machine learning.

How long: 10 to 20 h / week during the semester, up to 40 h / week in summer.

Pay: Yes. Salary is negotiable.

Other benefits: Gain field experience in Northern ³ÉÈËӰƬ, potential for research-based credits.