
Summer Internship Opportunities
Internships provide valuable experience and allow you to see a wide range of applications for your geoscience background.
Every summer students head out to participate in environmental, conservation, energy finance, energy exploration, and other internships with organizations, companies, and the government. These experiences make you aware of the real-life applications of the geosciences as well as give you contacts that will help with your next steps.
GSA has a helpful page for internships tips and more, under Career Resources. Check in with the Administrative Assistant to see if an alum works at any of the places that have internships you are interested in.
Conservation
Geoscience on Public Lands
Policy
- Resources for the Future Summer Internships in Environmental Policy
- American Geoscience Institute Geoscience Policy Internship
Many Aspects of Geoscience
Environmental
- GZA Environmental: Look for Engineer/Scientist Summer Internship in the Job Opportunities list
- EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc.: scroll down to Current Students
Energy Analysis, Consulting, and Development
- Advanced Resources International, LLC
- Apex Clean Energy
- Common Energy (look on internship search sites for their internships)
- Heelstone Renewable Energy, LLC
- Independent Project Analysis
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Volt Energy (minority-owned)
- DOE Scholars Program
Energy Finance
Sites That List Internships by Industry
Other Opportunities
Department Info
- P: 540-458-8800
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Earth and Environmental Geoscience Department
204 West Washington Street
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia 24450
Recent Summer Internship Experiences
Madison Williams ’23
Intern, Paradox Farm, Summer 2021
This summer I worked as an intern on Paradox Farm, located right outside of Lexington. After hearing of the farm from Laura Adams ‘21 who interned there last summer, I knew it would be a great opportunity to combine my environmental studies and geology backgrounds.
Kate Nassab ’22
Intern, Friends of Harriman State Park, Summer 2021
This summer I worked as a marketing and PR intern for Friends of Harriman State Park in Island Park, Idaho. Initially, I was set to work with the group the summer of 2020, but with Covid those plans were put on hold. When I was offered the internship the following summer I immediately agreed, looking forward to working with a group focused on conservation and spending time out west.
Rett Daugbjerg ’22
Intern, Jones Lange LaSalle (JLL), Summer 2021
This summer, I had a 10-week internship program with Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) in their Atlanta office. JLL is an international real estate services firm, but I was working with the Capital Markets team which provides investment sales advisory and debt/equity placement for real estate transactions. For the first five weeks, the interns cycled through different asset groups including Land (which involves a lot of the same work as a landman for an exploration & production company), Industrial, Office, Retail, Multifamily, Affordable Housing, and Debt/Equity placement. We spent the last five weeks specializing with an asset type and working on our capstone project, which was a mock buy-side pitch presentation of a previously transacted asset. I was able to work on live transactions and work with full-time analysts and associates every day, which helped me to learn-by-doing much like we do in the geology department.