Coastal Cultural Landscape Vulnerability Assessment Summer Internship
Analyze National Park Service cultural landscapes for vulnerability to climate change impacts, including, flooding, erosion, and storm surge. This internship offers opportunities to develop and apply analytical and creative thinking skills in exploration of new approaches to a challenging real-world problem.
The National Park Service Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation promotes the stewardship of significant landscapes through research, planning, and preservation maintenance. Based in Boston, the Center provides cultural landscape technical assistance to parks and historic properties. The Center accomplishes its mission in collaboration with a network of partners, including national parks, universities, and nonprofit organizations. Participants in this internship experience will use baseline Cultural Landscape Inventory data and coastal vulnerability indices to analyze the vulnerability of park landscapes to adverse weather trends and events.
Future Leaders interns will work closely with experienced Olmsted Center staff, park-based partners in natural/cultural resources, and the National Park Service Cultural Resources GIS Program to prepare Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data and develop metrics for analyzing climate change vulnerability. This work involves aggregating complex scientific and cultural datasets, using GIS to conduct analysis, and generating a summary of findings articulating and illustrating landscape patterns and trends over time.
Duty stationed at the Olmsted Center in Boston, yet working on a project with a reaches across the
Northeast Region, the successful applicant will gain an insider’s perspective on working with National
Park Service resources and staff. The intern will gain experience with day-to-day operations as well as
substantive project-oriented assignments. The successful applicant will develop new skills in GIS and a
familiarity with the NPS Cultural Landscapes Inventory program. Training opportunities will include a
comprehensive mapping and graphics workshop and a Cultural Landscapes Inventory orientation
workshop at the start of the summer. This internship experience will provide opportunities to improve
skills in creative thinking, meeting facilitation, and problem-solving on a day-to-day throughout the
summer.
The National Park Service Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation promotes the stewardship of significant landscapes through research, planning, and preservation maintenance. Based in Boston, the Center provides cultural landscape technical assistance to parks and historic properties. The Center accomplishes its mission in collaboration with a network of partners, including national parks, universities, and nonprofit organizations. Participants in this internship experience will use baseline Cultural Landscape Inventory data and coastal vulnerability indices to analyze the vulnerability of park landscapes to adverse weather trends and events.
Future Leaders interns will work closely with experienced Olmsted Center staff, park-based partners in natural/cultural resources, and the National Park Service Cultural Resources GIS Program to prepare Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data and develop metrics for analyzing climate change vulnerability. This work involves aggregating complex scientific and cultural datasets, using GIS to conduct analysis, and generating a summary of findings articulating and illustrating landscape patterns and trends over time.
Duty stationed at the Olmsted Center in Boston, yet working on a project with a reaches across the
Northeast Region, the successful applicant will gain an insider’s perspective on working with National
Park Service resources and staff. The intern will gain experience with day-to-day operations as well as
substantive project-oriented assignments. The successful applicant will develop new skills in GIS and a
familiarity with the NPS Cultural Landscapes Inventory program. Training opportunities will include a
comprehensive mapping and graphics workshop and a Cultural Landscapes Inventory orientation
workshop at the start of the summer. This internship experience will provide opportunities to improve
skills in creative thinking, meeting facilitation, and problem-solving on a day-to-day throughout the
summer.