Generation Z Interns Light Up NASA Goddard as
CISTO Celebrates National Intern Day 2022!
Clockwise, from top left: Mariana Blanco-Rojas, Anansa Keaton-Ashanti, Bianca Ortega, Isa Nawaz, Noah S. Oller Smith, Jakob Silver, and Adarsh Sivasubramani.
To honor National Intern Day on July 28, 2022, the NASA High-End Computing Program at Goddard Space Flight Center introduces seven summer 2022 NASA interns working in various groups across the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO).
These up-and-coming interns are collaborating virtually with their NASA mentors, working in groups that span CISTO, including the Data Science Group (DSG), the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), the NASA Science Managed Cloud Environment (SMCE), and the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS). These interns are challenged with a variety of exciting research projects that include machine learning, cluster computing, supercomputer benchmarking, scientific visualization, and DevOps.
This highly motivated group of NASA summer students are perfect examples of Generation Z’s “digital integrators,” having grown up with digital devices and mobile media and blurring the boundaries of those technologies. They are the future of NASA and high-end computing.
Learn more about each of these summer interns and their respective projects by clicking on the buttons below.
Title
NASA Pathways Intern – CISTO Data Science Group
Terms with CISTO
Spring 2022 and Summer 2022
Internship Overview
Developing a machine learning approach to crater identification on the surface of Enceladus, a geologically active moon of Saturn.
The Cassini–Huygens mission captured this stunning mosaic of the surface of Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, on Oct. 9, 2008. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. See Related Links below for other images of intriguing Enceladus.
Mentor
Dr. Mark Carroll
Education
Mariana is a rising senior at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Related Link
Title
NASA Pathways Intern - NASA Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS)
Terms with CISTO
Summer 2022
Internship Overview
Creating engaging visuals for NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, including a visualization to show the output of Marshall Space Flight Center’s machine learning algorithm to identify dust in GOES imagery.
Mentor
Dr. Mark SubbaRao
Education
Anansa is pursuing a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Related Link
Title
NASA Summer Intern - SMCE
Terms with CISTO
Summer 2021 and Summer 2022
Internship Overview
High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the Cloud, specifically in Amazon Web Services (AWS): automating the creation of HPC clusters based on CloudFormation templates and state machines.
Mentor
Hoot Thompson
Education
Homeschooled, High School
Related Link
Title
NASA Summer Intern - NCCS
Terms with CISTO
Summer 2021 and Summer 2022
Internship Overview
High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the Cloud at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS). Moving scientific applications from the Discover Supercomputer to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the cloud and benchmarking in order to compare various factors on each platform.
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation's Discover Supercomputer, located at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Image credit: NASA.
Mentor
Hoot Thompson and Laura Carriere
Education
Noah is finishing his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics at Purdue University.
Title
NASA Summer Intern - NCCS
Terms with CISTO
Summer 2022
Internship Overview
Applications of data visualization and machine learning to HPC. Bianca is working with ELK data streams to identify ways to use ELK to identify and predict system events.
Mentors
Laura Carriere, Lyn Gerner, and Jordan Caraballo-Vega
Education
Bianca is currently enrolled in a dual B.S./M.S program, studying computational science and engineering with a minor in applied physics at Kean University in Union, New Jersey.
Title
NASA Summer Intern – SMCE
Terms with CISTO
Summer 2022
Internship Overview
Developing a JupyterLab extension to enable Science Managed Cloud Environment (SMCE) users to access, modify, and take bucket actions on AWS S3 buckets directly on DaskHub.
Mentor
Jeremy Raupp
Education
Jakob will study computer science at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) in the fall of 2022.
Title
NASA Summer Intern - SMCE
Terms with CISTO
Summer 2022
Internship Overview
Integrating Voice Atlas, a question and answer platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI), with NASA's Common Metadata Repository (CMR) to enable researchers to effectively search for datasets. CMR is a high-performance, high-quality, continuously evolving metadata system that catalogs all data and service metadata records for NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) system.
Mentor
Hoot Thompson
Education
Adarsh is a rising senior at John P. Stevens High School in Edison, New Jersey.
Related Link
Sean Keefe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
July 29, 2022
