Undergrad internship alert.....Its unpaid but you get to work with sharks Two unpaid spring 2014 internship positions are available for current upper-level undergraduates (incoming juniors or seniors) or recent graduates at the NOAA Fisheries Southeast Fisheries Science Center Panama City Laboratory in Panama City, FL, to work with the #Shark Population Assessment Group. Spring #internships begin in January and end in May. Deadline for application is October 31. Spring internships are field intensive. Interns will participate in the GULFSPAN survey. This survey is highly weather dependent and consists of day trips 2-3 times per week to several bays and inlets in the panhandle of Florida. Interns will also participate in the Smalltooth Sawfish Abundance Survey in the Florida Everglades. These are week-long excursions to Everglades City, FL. Sampling takes place in Everglades National Park and the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge. In the field, interns aid staff biologists in sampling, identifying, measuring, tagging, collecting, and cataloging elasmobranch and teleost samples. Interns are required to have a dry bag, hat, sunglasses, bathing suit, closed-toed water shoes (Crocs, Keens, or the like), personal medications, and clothes that can get dirty. Additionally, interns are charged with basic gear maintenance. When not in the field, interns will participate in on-going studies of elasmobranch age and growth, bioenergetics, diet and foraging ecology, distribution and movement, and reproduction. Interns may also participate in other laboratory activities during the spring. Interns will be supervised by Dana M. Bethea, but should be able to work independently once trained. For further information on shark research at the NOAA Fisheries Panama City Laboratory, see: pclab.noaa.gov/content/80_Sharks/Sharks.php. Please send a letter of interest, unofficial transcripts, CV/resume, and three professional references to: [email protected]
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:09:53 +0000
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