LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio Summer Internships 2015 Application Deadline : Midnight April 19th
Program Dates: June 2nd – August 1st
Required Submission Materials: Letter of Interest (max 500 words) stating your interest in issues around sustainability and Coastal Louisiana, resume, and work samples (max 4 pages).
E-mail applications to css@lsu.edu

About CSS: The challenge of sustaining the ecological, settlement, and economic framework of the coast is one of the Gulf South’s most pressing issues. The mission of the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio (CSS), founded in 2009, is to address this challenge.

At CSS, scientists, engineers, and designers come together to intensively study and respond to issues of settlement, coastal restoration, flood protection, and the economy. We bring together disciplines that normally work separately so that we can respond to critical coastal issues in a comprehensive way. CSS was conceived as a laboratory to develop new strategies that reduce risk to social, economic, and natural resources. The results of this design experimentation provide a sound basis for major policy decisions for adaptation through more sustainable land-use planning, protection, and education.

About the program: the Coastal Sustainability Studio is seeking motivated students for paid summer internships in an exciting, challenging, interdisciplinary environment. Qualified candidates with an interest in landscape and data representation, public policy, planning, ecological restoration and design will work in collaboration on a variety of projects. These range from visualizations, exhibit design, and design competition work, to policy initiatives and communications that address a multitude of environmental challenges facing vulnerable Gulf Coast communities. Graduate students and college seniors from a range of fields including, but not limited to, Landscape Architecture, Engineering (Civil, Environmental and Biological), Architecture, Coastal Science, Media Arts, Interior Design, Cartography, Urban Planning, Geography, Environmental Studies, Public Policy, are encouraged to apply.