Scientist in the Park (26-week internship)
Agency: National Park Service
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Closing Date: March 31, 2021
Contact: Mannie Lopez, mklopez@usgs.gov, 530-520-8653
When you apply, please indicate that you are responding to the posting on Conservation Job Board.
Term/Grade: Paid Internship
Position Summary:
The interns will participate in a variety of ecological research and long-term ecological monitoring in Bandelier National Monument and surrounding landscapes in northern New Mexico. These interns will particularly participate in dendroecological research activities involving the collection, processing, analysis, and reporting on centuries-long tree-ring fire histories in the Jemez and Sangre de Cristo Mountains (including areas in or near Bandelier, Valles Caldera National Preserve, and Pecos National Historical Park), as well as the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. Other ecological research and monitoring activities includes a variety of fieldwork on diverse long-term vegetation monitoring transects (from low & mid- elevation woodlands up through high-elevation conifer forests), post-fire vegetation plot work, and other landscape change research (e.g., repeat photography of old historic photographs). Note that all of these ecological research and monitoring activities involve field data collection, with subsequent data entry, QA/QC, and descriptive analyses back in our offices.
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