Links and Resources
Instrumentation Summer Schools/Workshops
Dunlap instrumentation summer school
Short courses at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes
Summer School for Adaptive Optics
University of Rochester, Institute of Optics Summer Short Course Series
Keck Visiting Scholars program (for graduate students/postdocs)
NYRIA Workshop (Network of Young Researchers in Instrumentation for Astrophysics)
Software-oriented conferences, events and workshops
Astro Hack Week (2019)
AstroInformatics (2019)
ADASS (2019)
Instrumentation Internships
NASA AS&ASTAR - must be in first 2 years of grad school, Need to find NASA advisor
Akamai Internship Program - college students from Hawaii
ESA Student Internships - Masters students. Astronomy establishments are ESTEC and ESAC; also covers Earth observation and all areas of ESA activity. Applicants should be nationals of an ESA member or associate member state (e.g. Canada)
Instrumentation specific Fellowships (postdoctoral)
ESO Engineering & Technology Research fellowship
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astronomical Instrumentation (not offered in 2017)
ESA Research Fellowships - in any area of ESA’s activities. Applicants should be nationals of an ESA member or associate member state (e.g. Canada)
Other Resources
SPIE Field Guides (If your institution does not have these, you can recommend to the library that they get copies)
Electronic Imaging in Astronomy
Network of Young Researchers in Instrumentation for Astrophysics (Includes a list of instrumentation institutes in Europe and upcoming workshops in the field, along with other useful information)
Prizes and Awards in Astronomical Instrumentation
Royal Astronomical Society Jackson-Gwilt Medal