The CGCS Summer Undergraduate Intern Programme pairs University of Toronto researchers in climate and environmental sciences with top undergraduate students interested in pursuing climate-change research.
The CGCS Internship will run from May 4th to August 21st, 2026 for 12-16 weeks. Interns will be paid a $617.76/week stipend, 2/3 of which is provided by CGCS, the remaining 1/3 is provided by the supervisor. All interns must attend the CGCS Research Day on Thursday August 20, 2026 in person to present their research.
The call for applications for the Summer 2026 programme can be found here: link to poster. To apply, students must be 2nd or 3rd yr undergraduate students, submit a *one-page* statement of interest identifying at least one potential supervisor and submit an unofficial transcript or academic history. Your statement of interest must have your name and university at the top left corner as in the example. Please be sure to review the calendar for this summer as well as the Frequently Asked Questions. Apply by Sunday February 22, 2026 by emailed to cgcs@utoronto.ca.
Please click here to see projects that have been supported in the past years.
| Student | Supervisor | Project |
| Andrea Ahumada Ampudia | Frank Wania | Mapping the Atmospheric Phase Partitioning of Brown Carbon Chromophores |
| Beesan Tayyar | Irena Creed | Harmful Algal Blooms: Hidden in Plain Sight? |
| Jake Cohen | Terrence Bell | How do microbial inoculants interact with resident soil microbiomes? |
| Maeve McGuinness | Maria Dittrich | Intracellular Polyphosphate Dynamics in Cyanobacteria: Multidimensional Data Analysis using Machine Learning |
| Rio Takesue | William Gough |
Climate Change Driving Ixodes scapularis Expansion Northward: Current Distribution and Future Projections for Ontario, Canada |
| Clelia de Ferrieres | Debra Wunch | Comparing Different Methods of Computing the |
| Johnny Chen | Nicolas Grisouard |
Inertia-Gravity wave Scattering by Co-rotating Vortex Pair |
| lucy Feng Keyes | Paul Kushner |
Comparing the Response of Increasing Boreal Forest Wildfire Emissions in Two CanESM5.1 Schemes |
| Micah Yoon | Morgan O’ Neill | Modelling Historic Canadian PyroCumulonimbus |
| Samuel Kostousov | Kaley Walker | Remotely-Operated Camera for the PEARL Research Facility |
| Lyana Shaharizan | Russell Pysklywec | Climate-Lithosphere Interactions: Effects of Surface Cooling or Warming and Erosion on Lithospheric Dripping and Dynamic Topography |
| Katerina Sajeniouk | Arthur Chan | Effects of Photochemical Aging on Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals From Plastic Combustion |
| YiLe Wu | Jennifer Murphy | Field Measurements of Food Truck Generator Emissions: Evaluating Combustion Efficiency and Sampling Strategies |
| Jake Kilgour | Megan Frederickson | Which duckweeds are ideal candidates for phytoremediation in Ontario’s freshwater systems? |
| Valeria Quispe Sanchez | Chelsea Rochman | Analyzing the change in microplastic size through time in freshwater ecosystems |