Summer 2015 Internship Opportunities
Looking for experience in the field this summer? Summer Internships available for the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge! Internships last 12-weeks (40 hr/week) beginning mid-May through September. Starting dates are negotiable. See descriptions below:
Natural Resource Management Botany Intern
Description: Work with refuge staff on identifying and removing invasive plants and restoring shrub-land habitats (80%): includes manual removal of invasive plants, surveying areas for new invasive plant occurrences, and propagating native plants in the refuge greenhouse. Other occasional duties include: monitoring piping plover nesting activities, including dawn and dusk chick watches, assisting visitors in our contact station, conducting wildlife surveys, assisting with salt marsh research, delivering outreach programs to refuge visitors. For more information and application click here.
Piping Plover/ Least Tern Intern
Description: Work with refuge staff on the management of beach nesting/roosting birds (80%): primarily monitoring piping plover nesting activities, including dawn and dusk chick watches, monitoring least tern nesting activities, developing and delivering outreach programs to beach users, and providing general beach bird conservation outreach. Other duties include occasionally assisting visitors in our contact station, conducting wildlife surveys, assisting with salt marsh research, and controlling invasive plants. For more information and application click here.
Natural Resource Management Salt Marsh Interns
Description: Work with refuge staff on a variety of duties, primarily (80%) working in small teams measuring and surveying salt marsh habitat parameters, carrying heavy equipment and installing Surface Elevation Tables (SETs), entering data, and maintaining project equipment. Other duties include occasionally assisting visitors in our contact station, developing and delivering outreach talks to the public, conducting wildlife surveys and assisting with invasive plant control. For more information and application click here.
For additional information:
Call the refuge office at (207) 646-9226 or send and email to Karrie_schwaab@fws.gov