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The 2025 Lapenta program started with an icebreaker session on June 2 and ended with Final Presentation Workshop that spanned Aug 1, 6-8 and 22. All 68 of the 2025 interns (going to 17 different locations) finished their projects and the Lapenta staff and mentors facilitated the preparations for project presentations. The program had 24 interns in NWS, 24 in OAR, 15 in NESDIS, 2 in NOS and 3 in NMFS. The application period for the 2026 Lapenta Internship has been delayed due to various factors.
All applicants and professors/advisers are welcome to contact the internship with any questions/concerns they may have (lapenta.internships@noaa.gov). Please contact program manager, Dr. Roohr (peter. roohr@noaa.gov), for any outreach requests (inclusive of one hour seminars to specific universities/colleges).
For more information, please visit the Program Homepage.
DESCRIPTION OF INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
In recognition of the many contributions of Dr. William (Bill) Lapenta to advance NOAA science and services and his dedication to training the next generation of scientists, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) established the William M. Lapenta Student Internship Program in 2019. The program builds on the highly successful National Weather Service (NWS) National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Internship which Bill created in 2017. NOAA is offering paid summer internships targeted towards current 2nd and 3rd-year undergraduate and enrolled graduate students to work in areas that will provide robust research and/or operational experience that will prepare the student for further study in NOAA fields, for application to fellowships or for the NOAA-mission workforce. This internship program enables the National Weather Service, (NWS), Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS), National Ocean Service (NOS) and National Marine Fisheries Service) 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.
To learn more information about the Lapenta Student Internship Program, please refer to the recent update.
