PAID – Water Resources Intern – open until filled
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
Washington, DC
The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) is looking to fill the position of Water Resources Intern. The intern will be working closely with COG project managers to perform trash and litter surveys along with various other duties within the COG’s environmental programs related to the Anacostia Watershed Program. Applicants should be dependable, hardworking in both field and office environments; highly organized, independent and self-motivated individual with strong research and writing skills.
POSITION SPECIFICATIONS:
- Performing the Anacostia stream trash survey protocols; both land-based and in-stream trash surveys;
- Performing stream trash and litter cleanups to collect trash data;
- Assisting in regular maintenance of a small trash trap for data collection purposes;
- Working with program managers to assist development of an “Adopt a Stream” program;
- Maintaining water quality and water security project monitoring equipment;
- Take notes at meetings and assist with written summaries of meetings;
- Performing streambank erosion rate surveys;
- Performing baseflow stream flow measurements using a flow meter;
- Performing instantaneous water quality measurements using a variety of electronic meters; and
- Performing (with Project Managers assistance) baseflow and stormflow water quality grab sampling;
- Performing reforestation site evaluation, planting and site maintenance;
- Performing data entry into spreadsheets and databases; and
- Performing limited Anacostia restoration-related GIS tasks (i.e., new feature dataset creation, digitizing drainage boundaries, updating geodatabases and associated metadata)