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Botany intership - ZNP
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Tony Frates
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Mar 10, 2004 12:48 PST
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Botany Internship Opportunity
Zion National Park
Springdale, UT
Summer 2004
Position Title: BOTANICAL ASSISTANT
Major Duties: Assist Research Botanist in the verification
and documentation of botanical voucher specimens for 3
National Park units on the Colorado Plateau: Zion National
Park (ZION), Cedar Breaks National Monument and Pipe
Spring National Monument. Duties include transcribing
herbarium sheet label data and annotations into a National
Park Service standardized database. Work involves many
hours in the ZION herbarium transcribing by hand and on a
laptop computer (75% of time) alongside the Research
Botanist. Although at times tedious, the intern will work with a
skilled desert southwest/Colorado Plateau taxonomic
specialist offering opportunities to gain or improve plant
taxonomic skills and learn about herbarium management.
The intern will also assist the Research Botanist in
making field collections from the 3 parks and mounting
herbarium specimens. In addition, the intern will gain hands-
on experience with the highly motivated ZION Vegetation
Management staff in field projects (25% of time) involving
riparian restoration, native plant propagation, seed
collection, invasive weed management, and leading other
volunteers in the field.
Qualifications: Intern must have a familiarity with botanical
scientific names - and be detail-oriented. An interest in plant
taxonomy is essential.
Timeframe: Flexible according to internīs availability in the
months of May thru August 2004. 3 months
Benefits: Internship is available through the Student
Conservation Association (SCA) - see website for more
information about SCA ( www.theSCA.org). Housing is
provided in ZION within walking distance of the workplace.
SCA provides intern with a $50 stipend per week for food,
transportation costs to and from ZION, and an educational
award (find out how much and insert) that can be applied to
university tuition or other future educational pursuits.
Work schedule: Monday - Thursday 10 hours/day (40 hrs
per week)
Contact: Before March 14: ZION Horticulturist
Cheryl_-@nps.gov
After March 18th: ZION Vegetation Program Mgr
Denise-@nps.gov
To Apply: send resume with 3 references with contact
information to
Denise-@nps.gov or Denise Louie; Resource
Management Division; Zion National Park Headquarters;
Springdale, UT 84767. Please include a brief statement
why you are interested in this internship.
FROM SCA WEBSITE (www.theSCA.org):
Code: ZNP34-1
Dates: 6/1/04-8/24/04
Description:
Zion National Park, located at the junction of the Colorado
Plateau Great
Basin and Mojave Desert, has both dramatic landscapes of
sculptured canyons
and soaring cliffs. This unique geography and the variety of
life zones
within the park make Zion significant as a place of unusual
plant and
animal diversity, with over 900 species and the highest plant
diversity in
the state of Utah. Website: www.nps.gov/zion
Responsibilities include:
assist Research Botanist in the verification and
documentation of botanical
voucher specimens for 3 National Park units on the
Colorado Plateau: Zion
National Park, Cedar Breaks National Monument and Pipe
Spring National
Monument; transcribe herbarium sheet label data and
annotations into a
National Park Service standardized database, assist the
Research Botanist
in making field collections from the 3 parks and mounting
herbarium
specimens, assist Vegetation Management staff in field
projects involving
riparian restoration, native plant propagation, seed
collection and
invasive weed management; leading other volunteers in the
field.
Training/Educational opportunities: on-the-job training.
Require:
familiarity with botanical scientific names; interest in plant
taxonomy;
experience with computer databases; detail-oriented.
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