The Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research project

Employment begins June 5, 2006 and ends August 11, 2006

south of Albuquerque, NM

Workdays are long and the schedule and duties will vary during the course of the summer. Applicants must be in excellent physical condition and willing to live and work in close proximity with other interns. Preference will be given to applicants with undergraduate coursework in ecology or biology and some prior experience conducting field research with minimal supervision.

The Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research project is now accepting applications for Summer Intern positions. The Sevilleta LTER is an ecological research project funded by the National Science Foundation, where scientists and students are conducting long term studies of ecological pattern, processes and dynamics in riparian, grassland, shrubland and woodland ecosystems. Our research site is located 80km south of Albuquerque, NM, in and around the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge.

Internship

Send a copy of resume, references and an unofficial
transcript by email or mail.

Jennifer E. Johnson, c/o U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, P.O. Box 1248, Socorro, NM 87801

Duties will include but are not limited to:
Data Collection in the field, setting up field experiments, taking down
old experiments, repairing current experiments, monitoring experiments,
data entry, collection of soil and biomass samples and sorting collected
samples.

$9.50/hr. at 40hrs/week

Housing is provided AT NO COST at the Sevilleta Field Station,
houses are furnished three bedrooms with the basic kitchen set up
(dishes, etc.), microwaves and washing machines. Interns are expected
to live at the Sevilleta Field Station. Comfortab

March 31, 2006 or until the positions are filled.