Our programs help graduate and undergraduate students explore and start careers in the Earth system sciences.
These experiences range from one-week workshops to years-long mentoring programs. We are especially focused on supporting students from groups that are underrepresented in our fields of study.
The Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) program is an undergraduate-to-graduate bridge program featuring research, mentoring, and community building for students from communities underrepresented in the Earth system sciences.
This program brings students together to learn about heliophysics as a broad, coherent discipline that studies the intricate connections between the Sun and Earth.
This program offers graduate students and upper-level undergrads an opportunity to work with our software engineers and scientists on projects drawn from a wide variety of areas that overlap atmospheric and computational sciences.
UCAR's Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS) administers a number of opportunities at other scientific institutions, including NOAA's Okeanos Explorer-in-Training Program.
Check our active job postings for paid student positions and internships at both UCAR and NCAR.
To support university faculty and students in their increasingly virtual learning, The COMET® Program partnered with the National Science Foundation to map the program's online lesson content to U.S. university meteorology course curricula. The courses are part of the MetEd, a free collection of hundreds of training resources intended for the geoscience community.
Make sure to check out the many outstanding fellowships, internships, workshops and more available at NCAR for graduate and undergraduate students. Opportunities are available across NCAR, from engineering to weather and climate modeling to high-performance computing.