Conservation Biology
Under the umbrella of the Department of Conservation Biology, internships are available in a variety of individual subject areas including: behavior, ecology and GIS, genetics, and nutrition.
Interns may assist with field ecology projects on wild animal populations through vegetation sampling and monitoring, animal capture and marking, and behavioral observations. They may become involved in projects studying the ecology of neotropical migrant birds and white-tailed deer, or they may take a global approach by conducting habitat analyses of world-wide ecosystems using remote sensing and GIS technologies.
In addition to field-based ecological studies, interns placed
in the Department of Conservation Biology may study the subtle
complexities
of animals interacting within their environment utilizing
cutting-edge genetics or nutrition laboratories. Interns may
work on such diverse projects as identifying the nutritional
needs of wild populations of endangered species like the North
American desert tortoise, or mapping the genetic phylogeny
of Papua New Guinea’s Pitohui (poison feathered birds).
