{"id":750,"date":"2025-10-03T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.seagrant.w3.uvm.edu\/?page_id=750"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:22:37","slug":"undergraduate-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/undergraduate-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Opportunities at Lake Champlain Sea Grant<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uvm.edu\/seagrant\/lake-champlain-sea-grant-scholars-program\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3244\">Lake Champlain Sea Grant Scholars Program<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mission of Lake Champlain Sea Grant is to&nbsp;develop and share science-based&nbsp;knowledge to benefit the environment and economies. We offer a 13-month Sea Grant Scholars program for undergraduate students interested in the sciences and related fields. Scholars receive a one-year academic scholarship&nbsp;to offset costs of education and expenses, a paid summer internship, and ongoing professional development opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uvm.edu\/seagrant\/watershed-alliance-internships\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2482\">Watershed Educator Internship<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watershed Alliance&nbsp;aims to increase awareness and knowledge of watershed issues in the Lake Champlain Basin (both in NY and VT).&nbsp;Each spring and fall we hire a cohort of undergraduate students, known as Watershed Educators, who are actively looking to gain experience educating K-12 students about water resources and watershed education. Watershed Educators receive training in stream ecology, watershed science&nbsp;and teaching science as inquiry. They learn important group management skills that are applicable both in the field and classroom. These skills are then used to teach K-12 students about our watershed out on our research vessel, at local stream&nbsp;sites, or in classrooms across the state (mileage is reimbursed for travel).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/opportunities\/undergraduate-opportunities#\"><br>Science Communications Internship<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work with Lake Champlain Sea Grant communications staff and peers to develop public-facing educational materials such as brochures, fact sheets, news articles, videos, and social media campaigns on&nbsp;issues such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>water quality<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>aquatic food web dynamics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>microplastics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>flood resiliency<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>green infrastructure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>K12 watershed education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uvm.studentemployment.ngwebsolutions.com\/jobxJobdetailPrint.aspx?JobId=11721&amp;win=True\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apply for this position on JobX<\/a>. Eligibility is dependent on work-study status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Opportunities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seagrant.noaa.gov\/Students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Find other student opportunities on the National Sea Grant website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunities at Lake Champlain Sea Grant Lake Champlain Sea Grant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-750","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/750\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}