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<div dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">The LADCO Summer 2026 internship is posted! The internship is open to advanced undergrads or grad students.</div>
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LADCO Summer 2026 Internship</h1>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">The Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium (LADCO) is hiring a summer intern to investigate patterns in air pollution concentrations across the city
of Chicago. The intern will analyze data from a dense network of low-cost sensors in the city and explore spatial patterns and the drivers of these patterns. This project will involve both examination of the scientific literature and new analysis of environmental
datasets.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bolder;">Applications are due on March 20 @ 5:00 Central</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bolder;"><u>Project Description</u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Air pollution can adversely impact human health and contribute to premature mortality. Significant work at the federal, state, and local levels over
the last few decades has resulted in large reductions in air pollution around the country, including in Midwestern cities. However, urban and lakeshore areas in Chicago and other Midwestern cities continue to experience persistent ground level ozone and fine
particulate matter (PM</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 0;">2.5</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">)
pollution episodes. Developing effective strategies to further improve air quality requires increased understanding of the sources and distribution of air pollution in our cities. Recent innovations in high spatial and temporal resolution observational platforms
offer the potential to bridge the gap between emission sources and ambient concentrations. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(3, 96, 133);"><b><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdph/supp_info/Environment/open-air-chicago.html__;!!Mak6IKo!NqED3WqamCJscYAiH80dIIZqkYhB-OhxLsj7DHZnP_4mk0MRaHyVghRsRsBJCO3Yy3tPcigQ24taB1XGUyI$" target="_blank" data-outlook-id="d35440e3-2cb7-415d-92f6-08cc400a6f7f" style="color: rgb(3, 96, 133); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Open
Air Chicago</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> is the densest network of low-cost air quality sensors in the country. This network was deployed by the City of Chicago
and the University of Illinois Chicago in summer 2025. Sensors measure nitrogen dioxide (NO</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 0;">2</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">,
a precursor to both ozone and PM</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 0;">2.5</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">)
and PM</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 0;">2.5
</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">concentrations across the city with devices that are less than 1.5 km apart at sub-hourly time scales. The availability of air quality data
at this high spatial and temporal resolution allows investigation of fine-scale variations in concentrations within the city, including identification of pollution hotspots. Such hotspots may be particularly dangerous if located in communities that are already
subject to environmental health disparities. This analysis in turn should improve our understanding of emissions sources in the city, which can increase our understanding of the sources of pollution and help improve computer models of air pollution.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">The summer 2026 LADCO intern will analyze the data from the Open Air Chicago network to investigate temporal and spatial trends in NO</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 0;">2</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> and/or
PM</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 0;">2.5</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> around
the city, in collaboration with the Open Air Chicago team. This analysis may involve application of statistical tools, such as cluster analysis, to investigate spatial variations in pollutant concentrations around the city. The intern may also use statistical
tools to explore variations in measured pollutant concentrations based on land use and proximity to emissions sources such as highways or industry. The intern will compare the sensor data with data from the more sparse but higher quality regulatory monitoring
networks.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">The objectives of the project are to (1) identify spatial patterns in concentrations of NO</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 0;">2</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> and/or
PM</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 0;">2.5</span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> across
Chicago, including any hotspots, (2) explore how these spatial patterns change over the year, and (3) investigate the origins of concentration hotspots, including their connection to known and previously unknown emissions sources.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">The final products of the internship will be a report describing the intern’s analysis and findings, and a presentation to staff from LADCO, U.S.
EPA, and LADCO member states.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bolder;"><u>Terms and How to Apply</u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(3, 96, 133);"><b><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ladco.org/wp-content/uploads/Documents/Jobs/LADCO_Summer2026Intern_Sensor_Network.pdf__;!!Mak6IKo!NqED3WqamCJscYAiH80dIIZqkYhB-OhxLsj7DHZnP_4mk0MRaHyVghRsRsBJCO3Yy3tPcigQ24taZx_aEhs$" target="_blank" data-outlook-id="969cc999-6948-458e-9196-ba74d2745f6e" style="color: rgb(3, 96, 133); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Learn
more about the internship terms, pay, and how to apply.</a></b></span></p>
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