Keck/NSF-REU || Noblett-Witter || Buster || Independent Research

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Geology Opportunities: 

Keck Geology Consortium

Application Deadline: mid-February

Further information is available on the Keck Website

National Science Foundation-Research Experience for Undergraduates:

NSF-REU Gateway Research Project

For rising sophomores (the summer after 1st year) this opportunity allows 1st years a chance to investigate earth science and how it interacts with socially relevant issues.

This REU provides:

• Transportation to the project home institution.
• Transportation, housing, and meals during the summer project.
• Support for research expenses and analytical costs.
• Funding for travel, housing, and meals to co-present your results with other project members at a professional meeting.
• A $3,000 fellowship for your participation in the five-week summer research project; dispersed at the end of the summer program.

NSF-REU Advanced Research Project

For rising seniors in the Earth Sciences (and the occasional rising junior).

The REU covers:

• Transportation to the project home institution.
• Transportation, housing, and meals during the summer project.
• Support for research expenses and analytical costs.
• Funding for travel, housing and meals to co-present your results with other project members at a professional meeting.
• A $2,400 fellowship for your participation in the four-week summer and academic year research project; dispersed at the end of the summer project.  In some exceptional circumstances (e.g., international projects), student fellowships might be reduced to help cover travel costs.  Please see project descriptions for exceptions.

Jackson Kohl '23 performing geochemical research in the Advanced Research Project through the Keck Consortium

Noblett-Witter Family Internship Program

No strict application deadline, but the department discusses applications in mid-March.

What: The Colorado College Geology Department partners with organizations that host internships for Colorado College undergraduate geology majors. Weekly stipends and RT travel to/from the workplace are provided by the Witter Family Fund at Colorado College. The Witter Internship Program intends to provide students with work experience and/or training in state or federal agencies, analytical laboratories, industry, or corporate settings, to gain skills by doing hands-on work in professional settings. The aim is for interns to become acquainted with fundamental methods, work activities, and career possibilities, by engaging in work outside of the liberal arts college environment in which they study. Students placed in an internship are provided with an income sufficient to cover living expenses and round-trip travel to the internship site. The intention is that students are earning to defray academic expenses or to prepare for the post-graduation transition. The fund can support 8 to 12 current students annually. The Department is grateful to Bill Witter, an alumnus of Colorado College, for establishing the Witter Family Fund for Internships in Geology.

Where: Anywhere!

• Certain organizations host interns every year
• A student can reach out to an organization they want to intern for them
  • forms and further details available on the Canvas page

Downloadable information sheet: PDF here!

Host organizations for the Noblett-Witter Family Internship Program Summer:

Emory Pollatsek '23 at their Noblett-Witter Family internship at Denver Museum of Nature and Science:


 

Patricia Buster Research Fellowship

Applications for Buster Scholarships will be accepted at any time.

The Patricia Buster Research Scholarship Fund was established in 2000 to support Colorado College students in conducting research in geology.

Patricia J. Buster’s bequest to the Geology Department provides students with the opportunity to undertake original scientific work, and to design and carry out research work tailored to their own interests. It does so by providing a stipend and costs to cover research expenses, including both field and laboratory costs (if approved by the Department). A high level of initiative and a striving for excellence is expected of scholarship recipients, as is a willingness to present the results of their work to faculty and other students in the department.

Downloadable information sheet: PDF Here!

Independent Research Options:

You can work with a CC Faculty on their project, or create your own research project with the help of CC Faculty. 

Funding comes from Buster Grant, possibly CC faculty NSF grant if applicable.

This research leads to the final capstone thesis/project.

Fiona Swope '22, at the University of Arizona Laser Chron lab while doing work for Christine Siddoway summer of 2021.