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🔗Cultural Resource GIS Intern – 640 hours
Website National Park Service/NCPE Internship Program
The Cultural Resource Geographic Information Systems facility (CRGIS) is the only program within the National Park Service (NPS) dedicated to developing and fostering the use of GIS and GPS technologies in documenting, analyzing and managing cultural resources. For over 20 years the mission of CRGIS has been to institutionalize GIS and GPS into the daily practice of cultural resource management by adapting these technologies to field surveys and inventory maintenance, as well as addressing links between cultural resource databases using locational information, all with the aim of increasing the effectiveness of cultural resource planning.
The internship will result in the creation of additional digital spatial data identifying cultural resources documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscape Survey (HABS/HAER/HALS). By creating this spatial data and incorporating it into the existing cultural resource national GIS data set, this project will help to streamline the regulatory review process through the integration of databases, creation of spatial data to find resources for planning purposes, as well as sharing this information with the public. This project will help to identify those resources where baseline documentation, meeting regulatory requirements, has already been created, reducing regulatory response times, reducing mitigation efforts, and providing a more coordinated approach to resource management throughout the National Park Service (NPS).
The project will involve examining the original HABS/HAER/HALS documentation through the Library of Congress website to find any clues to locations through the descriptions/photo captions/short histories, etc. The intern would then be responsible for converting this information into point GIS data through ESRI ArcPro software (provided). The intern will be responsible for confirming that the resource still exists, incorporating the GIS data into the existing NPS cultural resource spatial data transfer standards, and eventually into the national cultural resource data set. The intern will receive training in the NPS cultural resource spatial data transfer standards and work closely with the HABS/HAER/HALS database manager, as well as the CRGIS Enterprise GIS Specialist.
This position can be either full-time or part-time, or a combination of both, depending on the intern’s schedule. A start date in May is preferred.
This position is part of the Internship Program administered by the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE). The program is a partnership between the National Park Service and NCPE. Eligibility requirements apply; visit https://preservenet.org/ncpe-internships/ for details and instructions on how to apply.
Qualified NCPE interns who successfully complete their internships may count their position towards earning a Public Land Corps (PLC) Non-Competitive Hiring Authority certificate. Once earned, the PLC hiring authority certificate may be used to apply for eligible Federal temporary, term, or permanent positions. Visit the website listed above for details about this benefit. Successful completion of the internship does not guarantee Federal employment.