Paid Summer Internship Opportunity
Be a part of the great things happening at Core Sound

CSWM&HC is seeking an undergraduate intern for the summer of 2024 to compile a cultural - natural resource timeline of change since 1950 for eastern Carteret County. This project will involve historic research and developing a chronology of natural resource/environmental change, along with gathering local voices and collecting old and new photography and maps.  

North River Flooding, 2022

This internship is part of NOAA Sea Grant's Community Engaged Internship (CEI) program for undergraduate students. NC Sea Grant administers this national internship opportunity and funds the internship. 

Skills needed will include careful listening, research and writing. Experience with data collection and website planning would be helpful, and a familiarity and understanding of Down East communities will be very important. This interdisciplinary communications project will become part of Core Sound's community education outreach programming. Undergraduates majoring in education, communications, marine science, history, anthropology or creative writing are welcomed. 

 

Marine Science Summer Camps at core Sound

The Fleet

 

Cape Lookout lighthouse from Shackleford banks

Atlantic Harbor, 1950s - Schumaker photo

This internship includes leadership training and mentorship along with other NC Sea Grant funded interns across the state.  The internship schedule is flexible but requires attendance (during the summer of 2024) for leadership activities and requires 50 days of work. The schedule can be designed as full time for 10 weeks or part-time over a longer period of time.

 

APPLY

Interested undergraduate students are asked to submit their current resume including a listing of courses taken, work experience and projects completed.  Deadline for submitting this information is April 5. For additional information, please submit and/or email questions to museum@coresound.com. Housing needs will be discussed once selection is made. No phone calls please.  

The pay is a $6,000 stipend and includes an all-expense-paid four-day trip visiting the Piedmont, coastal plain and barrier islands of North Carolina with Sea Grant interns across the country. The trip dates are July 21-24.