Looking for opportunities to join a Lab that uses interdisciplinary research approaches to address major global environmental change issues? Learn about opportunities to join our Lab as a student intern and potential opportunities to join our Lab as a graduate student, postdoctoral researcher, or project scientist:
- Prospective high school and undergraduate students:
Our lab is always looking for enthusiastic high school and undergraduate student interns who are driven by interdisciplinary environmental challenges as well as computational modeling and data analysis. Research opportunities include topics like:
Agriculture: join our Lab to develop and use new crop models to examine the impacts of future climate and weather extremes and water availability on crop yield and food production.
Wildfires: join our Lab to develop and use wildfire models and to conduct data analysis to better understand the drivers and impacts of wildfires across California, the United States and the world.
Biogeochemistry: join our Lab to conduct data analysis to better understand the role of terrestrial ecosystems on the global carbon and nitrogen cycles.
Air quality: join our Lab to conduct data analysis to examine the impacts of air pollution on communities across California, the United States and the world.
Extreme weather: join our Lab to conduct data analysis to examine the patterns, magnitude and frequency of extreme weather, including extreme heat, extreme precipitation, and droughts.
- Prospective graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and project scientists:
- Unfortunately, due to lack of current funding and uncertainty in future funding, our Lab is not hiring any new graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, or project scientists.
Our Global Environmental Change Lab is part of the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, a world-class interdisciplinary department with faculty who specialize in atmospheric and climate science, hydrology and water resources, soils and biogeochemistry, sustainable agriculture farming systems, and plant science.
UC Davis ranks 2nd in the world and 1st in the nation in Plant and Animal Science (U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Global Universities for Plant and Animal Science”) and 2nd in the world and 1st in the nation in Agriculture and Forestry research ("QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025: Agriculture & Forestry"). UC Davis also ranks 1st in the nation for launching women into science, technology, engineering and mathematics professions ("The 13 Most Important STEM Universities for Women," Forbes 2016).