Utah Geospatial Opportunities

Internship - Bear River Association of Governments

Project description:
The projects are Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plans that BRAG completes for cities and counties, to be able to let local jurisdictions qualify for funding for hazard mitigation from the Federal Government. The datasets involve development, hazard risks, natural hazards, slopes, soils, development, streets, roads, and infrastructure, etc.
We are creating an analysis of natural hazard risks that are possible in a community, and how those potential natural hazard risks that occurred, may affect infrastructure or development in a community. We then will draft mitigation strategies, or update existing mitigation strategies. The GIS work deals with the first two steps, in this paragraph regarding natural hazard risks, and potential to impact development.

Preferred technical skills:
Document Layout Skills, Adobe InDesign, and related basic document image placements skills, and/or
ArcGIS Pro, and potentially Python, or other automating/data crunching/analysis software, related to GIS datasets, and can do natural hazard risk analysis.

Contact - Brandon.Bell@brag.utah.gov for more information

Deadline -May 30, 2026. 

Internship - Historic Chinese artifacts monitoring using LiDAR - Snake River, ID

The project involves identifying features of mining sites along the Snake River using lidar. We have been working on the Snake River near Twin Falls, documenting Chinese mining sites. What we have found is a much more complicated landscape associated with mining. Idaho Power is providing us with Lidar imagery, but it will need to be processed to help us identify mining features. We have mapped a number of features, but it would be great to identify them with the LiDAR imagery. The other part is to identify potential features, likely walls and structures, in a new area that we will be surveying in the spring. So, essentially, identifying potential areas for us to survey and ground truth. We have yet to receive the data from IPC and would like to schedule a meeting with them so they can provide us with the data in the most suitable format.

Contact - shannon.belmont@usu.edu

Deadline - Oct 30, 2025.