From data scientists to engineers and policymakers to educators, NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) employs people in a wide range of fields.
Our employees support secure and timely access to global environmental data and information from satellites and other sources to promote and protect the Nation's security, environment, economy, and quality of life.
Early Career Opportunities
Pathways Programs
OPM’s Pathways Programs consist of three types of paid Civil Service programs – Internships, Recent Graduate programs, & the Presidential Management Fellows Program.
William M. Lapenta Student Internship Program
This internship program enables the National Weather Service, (NWS), Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), and National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS) to target the skills needed to fulfill their specific mission needs. Projects may be focused on research areas or the development of operational products such as decision support tools, climate and weather forecast models, data analysis methodologies, and social science strategies to communicate climate and weather information. Overall, students will focus on areas that will meet the future needs of NOAA’s ever-broadening user community and address strategic weather-water-climate issues.
Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program
More than 100 undergraduate students receive tuition support and paid summer internships with NOAA across the country each year.
Sea Grant John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship provides a 1-year paid fellowship in Washington, District of Columbia, to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources.