Summer Internships at Shoals Marine Laboratory
BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS
GENERAL ELIGIBILITY FOR ALL BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS: Applicants must have completed a Shoals Marine Lab credit course in 2012 or earlier EXCEPT for the Project Puffin internship (#5) which does not require a prior Shoals course. College freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors in all majors may apply. Shoals alumni from all schools are welcome to apply; however, Cornell and UNH students receive preference for these internships. Engineering majors, please scroll down!
ROOM AND BOARD: Provided for all interns.
QUESTIONS? Contact shoals-lab@cornell.edu or call (607) 255-3717
(1) Marine Mammal Internship on Appledore Island, Maine
NUMBER OF INTERNS = 4
DATES: Two week sessions between June and August 2013
STIPEND: $150/week (room and board included in the internship appointment)
PREREQUISITE (no exceptions): BIOSM 3210/MEFB (ZOOL) 754 Anatomy and Function of Marine Vertebrates
PROJECT: Interns will be involved in a survey of harbor and gray seals of the Isles of Shoals.
DEADLINE: February 15, 2013*
*All materials must be received by Shoals by 5pm on February 15, 2013; late applicants will not be considered.
(2) Intertidal Ecology Internship on Appledore Island, Maine
NUMBER OF INTERNS = 4
DATES: Late July to early August 2013
STIPEND: $150/week (room and board included in the internship appointment)
PREREQUISITE: Any Shoals college-level course; candidates who have successfully completed BIOSM 3730/MEFB (ZOOL) 630, Biodiversity and Biology of Marine Invertebrates highly preferred.
PROJECT: Interns will be involved in studies of the permanent intertidal transects of Appledore Island, Maine. These transects yield data that are critical for ongoing studies of climate change and introduced species in the Gulf of Maine.
DEADLINE: February 15, 2013*
*All materials must be received by Shoals by 5pm on February 15, 2013; late applicants will not be considered.
(3) Field Ornithology Internship on Appledore Island, Maine
NUMBER OF INTERNS = 2
DATES: Late May to mid-July 2013
STIPEND: $150/week (room and board included in the internship appointment)
PREREQUISITE: Any Shoals college-level course
PROJECT: Interns will engage in their own focused research in avian ecology while contributing to long-term studies of the population ecology of Herring Gulls and Great Black-backed Gulls.
DEADLINE: February 15, 2013*
*All materials must be received by Shoals by 5pm on February 15, 2013; late applicants will not be considered.
(4) Songbird Physiology Internship on Appledore Island, Maine
NUMBER OF INTERNS = 1
DATES: May 16 - June 10, 2013
STIPEND: $150/week (room and board included in the internship appointment)
PREREQUISITE: Any Shoals college-level course; BIOSM 3740/MEFB (ZOOL) 510 Field Ornithology highly preferred
PROJECT: See PDF for full description
DEADLINE: February 15, 2013*
*All materials must be received by Shoals by 5pm on February 15, 2013; late applicants will not be considered.
(5) Project Puffin Internship offered in cooperation with Audubon. Follow the link!
DATES: May - August 2013
STIPEND: $262/week
APPLICATION: Follow the link and/or contact rborzik@audubon.org (607) 257-7308 ext: 13
PREREQUISITE (no exceptions): For all Cornell students with a major in biology, ecology, natural resources or similar field of interest; sophomore-senior preferred. Read about Project Puffin: "By thinking like a social bird, Stephen Kress brought puffins back to the United States."
FOR ENGINEERS IN 2013
Sustainable Engineering Internship Follow the link!
For engineering majors entering junior or senior year during the fall 2013 semester, no prior experience at Shoals is required.
NUMBER OF INTERNS = 4
DATES: June 10 - July 8, 2013
STIPEND: $500 for the term of the internship (room and board included in the internship appointment)
DEADLINE: March 11, 2013
FOR UNDERGRADUATES ENROLLED IN COURSES, SUMMER 2013
Working Internship Follow the link!
NUMBER OF INTERNS = Limited, see Working Internship page for details.
DATES: Variable, see Working Internship page for details.
AND DID YOU KNOW...? SML credit courses incorporate research into everyday lab and field work; design and carry out your very own research project in almost ALL of our courses. Stay tuned by checking out the student section of our website!
INTERNSHIP ALUMNI NEWS:
Cassie Stoddard, Dr. Julie Ellis's intern, is a Harvard Junior Fellow.
Grace Ha, Dr. Robin Hadlock Seeley's intern, was a Fulbright Fellow; she studied harvest sustainability of traditional fisheries in Korea.
Matt Savoca, intern of Dr. David Bonter and Julie Ellis, received an NSF fellowship for graduate study at UC Davis.
If you have internship alumni news, please send it along to shoals-lab@cornell.edu
