The National Park Service (NPS), Division of Risk Management is pleased to let you know that we are again offering a student summer internship for graduate and undergraduate students to work in our parks on a range of injury prevention projects. Students will apply skills in epidemiology, behavioral sciences, risk management, public health, and/or social sciences to enhance NPS injury prevention and control efforts and mitigate unintentional injuries (e.g. drowning, fall injuries, hypothermia, dehydration, carbon monoxide poisoning, animal bites or attacks, and trauma from crashes in cars, boats, bikes, and other forms of transportation,
among many other injuries that occur in parks) to park visitors.

We have 11 internship opportunities available in the following 10 parks:

• Cape Cod National Seashore
  
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
  
• Glen Canyon National Recreation
• Area Golden Gate National Recreation Area
• George Washington Memorial Parkway
• Lake Mead National Recreation Area
• New River Gorge National River
• Rocky Mountain National Park
  
• Yosemite National Park
• Zion National Park

Interns will receive a weekly subsistence, housing, and transportation to and from the park.  They will attend an intensive, week-long training prior to placement and may be eligible for an AmericaCorps student grant.  In addition, students may be able to fulfill practicum requirements through this opportunity.

Interns will be supervised by park staff and will also receive technical support throughout the duration of the internship from our experienced team in the Public Risk Management Program at the NPS headquarters in
Washington, DC.

Attached is a flyer for you to post or distribute to potential applicants. For more information, students should email Gabrielle Fisher, Public Risk Program Specialist, at abrielle_Fisher@nps.gov.

Student Testimonials:
“I greatly appreciated the chance to work with the Park Service...I hope to use this experience as a jumping-off point for future research -- perhaps dissertation research -- either here or in another park."
- Laura Rickard, doctoral student at Cornell University, Intern at Mount
Rainier National Park, 2009.  Currently conducting her dissertation research at three national parks and recently published: Visitor proficiency profiling and risk communication at a national park, Environmental Communication, Vol . 5, No  1, March 2011, pp 62-82.

(See attached file: Flyer 2011 Intern.pdf)