Grasslands Bird Study Internship

The Center for Environment & Society, is hiring three interns for our summer research project on grassland birds. The team will contribute to a multi-year study on breeding biology of Field Sparrows, a common bird in decline. Our study site is the grasslands of the River and Field Campus, just across the river in Queen Annes County You will start the day before sunrise and stalk birds through the fields, identifying individuals by their colored leg bands, take GPS points of bird locations and search for their nests (harder than it sounds). After the field work is done, there will be some office work such as data entry. Youll work side-by-side with Field Ecologist Maren Gimpel and biology Professor Dr. Jennie Rinehimer and all the data you collect is for peer-reviewed scientific publications.

Each internship comes with a salary of $15.00 an hour and requires approximately 35 hours of work per week over a 10 week period starting in late May. Shared on-site housing is available. The field house is about a 10-minute drive from campus. Owning a vehicle is not necessary, but is preferred.

Please include your resume and a cover letter when applying.

For more information on these projects, please see our website:

https://www.washcoll.edu/learn-by-doing/rafc/index.php

Be sure to save your resume and cover letter in one file and label with your name as the file name.