Primary Work Location
Lincoln, NE
Overview
Join LI-COR’s research and development team as an Environmental Science Intern focused on advancing instrumentation and analytical techniques in ecosystem monitoring, carbon cycling, and sustainability. This role offers hands-on experience supporting field research, laboratory testing, prototyping, data interpretation, and product innovation for environmental applications.
Semester
- Ability to begin work this summer and possibly into the 2025 - 2026 school year.
Professional QualificationsEducation
Actively pursuing or recently completed B.S. in Environmental Science, Geoscience, Climate Science, Geology, Oceanography, Chemistry, or closely related field.
Experience
- Prior involvement in field-based or laboratory research in environmental or earth sciences. Hands-on experience with gas-phase and liquid-phase environmental measurement techniques. An analytically inventive spirit is highly desirable!
General
- Highly motivated, self-driven, and able to self-educate often.
- Demonstrated creativity and problem solving.
- Expected to work independently, as well as under the direction of others.
- Effective scientific communication—both written and oral.
- Attention to detail in both task execution and documentation.
- Dependable, positive attitude and good attendance.
- High ethics, integrity, honesty, and patience.
Position ResponsibilitiesSpecific
- Assist in the design, testing, and refinement of environmental monitoring tools and instrumentation.
- Perform both laboratory and field experiments measuring dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), dissolve greenhouse gases (pCO2, pCH4, …), pH, and other environmental parameters.
- Contribute to prototype development and testing, and the validation of new analysis workflows.
- Support fieldwork, including sampling of soil, air, water, and sediments as applicable.
- Analyze data from advanced analytical tools and assist in reporting findings.
- Collaborate with scientists and engineers in interdisciplinary research projects.
General
- Occasionally travel to field sites or research partner institutions.
- Receive training in relevant software, lab safety, and instrumentation.
- Ability to perform laboratory bench work, operate analytical equipment, and participate in field studies.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Top Skills
What We Do
LI-COR Biosciences is a global leader in developing innovative, high quality instrumentation for biotechnology and environmental technology. Our mission is to impact lives through science—from helping protect the Declaration of Independence and catalog the coffee genome in South America to conducting experiments aboard the International Space Station and developing dyes used in cancer surgery clinical trials. Together as a team, we at LI-COR Biosciences are driven to improve the human condition through dynamic research tools that help scientists solve the challenges facing humanity. More information at www.licor.com.
