Undergraduate Internship in Computational Literacy, GIS and One Health.

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The George A. Smathers Library seeks an undergraduate intern for the 2026 Fall semester. This 1 semester, 14-week internship funds an undergraduate student researcher with interests at the intersection of statistics, remote sensing, disease ecology, and One Health to contribute to advancing reproducible science research practices and computational literacy. The student intern will work approximately 10 hours per week at $15/hour under the supervision of the computational literacy librarian and GIS librarian within the Library’s Academic Research Consulting and Services (ARCS) department as well as a faculty member from the Department of Environmental and Global Health. The intern will be relying on domain expertise from project faculty members on the role of the libraries to support and advance open computational research. Work will be conducted in person, on campus during normal business hours Monday through Friday. A computer workstation and office space will be provided.

The internship activities include:

• Creating a set of repositories using R, Quarto and GitHub,
• Reviewing spatially explicit literature,
• Identifying GIS needs and available datasets,
• Transitioning research template guides from RMarkdown to Quarto,
• Building the front-facing user instruction pages for the templates,
• Verifying template outputs as reproducible and transparent,
• Identifying broken file paths, missing functions, and lack of documentation,
• Continued analysis and template development based on insights from faculty feedback,
• Drafting, modifying, and documenting a manuscript’s sections to reflect findings and reproducibility,
• Finalizing research templates, preparing a presentation report, and participating in the manuscript submission process.

$15/h

• knowledge of R programming language, as well as RMarkdown and Quarto
• knowledge of Git and Github
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively

• Familiarity with GIS and remote sensing
• Candidates with previous Smathers Library experience are encouraged to apply

Please submit a one-page resume, a cover letter, and Fall class schedule as part of the application materials.

Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.

This is a time-limited position.