Project Description:
The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) and Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC) seek a summer intern for late May through mid-August 2024 (12 weeks) to assist with the continued development and updating the capabilities of a data visualization application for the Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (CBIBS) and Hypoxia stations. The data visualization application is envisioned to have the capability to visualize environmental observation time series data, climatological data (synthesis of multiple years of data), vertical water column data and vector data (winds, currents) using open matplotlib in python. Web based plotting is also and options using a library like. Chart.js. Integrating the quality control values in the plotting is an important component of the data presentation. The position involves working with stakeholders in the Chesapeake Bay office to figure out how the data can be interpreted to enhance their programs.
There are 3 areas of work that the intern will have the opportunity to be involved in based on interest, experience and capacity. These areas are
- Continue work on Hypoxia Vertical Profile data plotting. This involves creating time series plots with quality control flags.
- Continue the CBIBS plotting data. This project would result in the creation of static plots from CBIBS data and has a web front end to view them.
- Combining the long term historical data with the current vertical profiling data to create climatology plots.
Opportunities
This internship provides a unique opportunity to contribute to the NOAA mission of providing high-quality observations in the Chesapeake Bay. There are opportunities to program in the full stack from the database, middleware up to the web presentation layers. There are also opportunities to go out on the NCBO boats for buoy maintenance. This internship offers the opportunity to develop skills in application development in support of data analysis and visualization used by internal NOAA audiences and ultimately members of the science community, education community and general public. Additionally this position will provide insight into careers at the intersection of environmental science, programming, and systems engineering. This internship also provides an opportunity to apply these skills in the field and to expand the intern’s knowledge of Chesapeake flora and fauna.
Please see https://chesapeake.org/data-programming-internship/ for more information and links to apply.
