{"id":3827,"date":"2022-07-11T11:40:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T10:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/internships\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2022-07-11T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T10:40:47","slug":"student-case-study-climate-emergency-and-energy-intern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/internships\/2022\/07\/11\/student-case-study-climate-emergency-and-energy-intern\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Case Study: Climate Emergency and Energy Intern"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Name of Student:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Janka van der Merwe<\/p>\n

Degree Subject:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0BSc Physics with Astrophysics<\/p>\n

Job Title:\u00a0<\/strong>SCP 6029 Climate Emergency and Energy Intern<\/p>\n

Company Name:<\/strong>\u00a0 University of Exeter<\/p>\n

Type of Internship:<\/strong>\u00a0 Student Campus Partnerships (SCPs) \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

What were your key duties and responsibilities during your internship?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conduct research of rainfall, doing analysis on rainfall observations in the Northern African\/Sahel region.<\/p>\n

What was your biggest achievement on your internship?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Creating a report of the findings of the research.<\/p>\n

Were there any challenges and how did you overcome these? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Working remotely was challenging, and making sure I did the right amount of hours each week. I kept up with this by going onto campus and joining a friend who was also doing an internship, where we would work together.<\/p>\n

Another big challenge was the high level of knowledge that I had not entirely been experienced with, regarding the climate field. Luckily my supervisor gave me access to a few of his lecture slides on the code that I was working on, and that was really helpful. I would also google the keywords, and that gave me a much better understanding.<\/p>\n

Skills Learnt:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n