Paid internship: Flora of Pennsylvania – Botany – Philadelphia, PA
Subject: [HERBARIA] Paid internship: Flora of Pennsylvania,application deadline Feb. 15
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Application deadline: February 15, 2012
Announcing
A one-year internship beginning June 2012, with six hours of graduate credit at the University of Pennsylvania
Location
Time is split between the Botany Departments of the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The Morris Arboretum is located in northwest Philadelphia.
Facilities include botanical laboratories, greenhouses, and an extensive outdoor living collection of trees and shrubs. The Academy of Natural Sciences, in Center City Philadelphia, is the oldest natural history museum in the United States, including a herbarium of more than 1.5 million specimens. Facilities available at the Academy of Natural Sciences include the Laboratory for Molecular Systematics & Ecology. The Intern will work under the supervision of Dr. Tatyana Livshultz at the Academy of Natural Sciences and Dr. Timothy A. Block at Morris Arboretum.
Internship Duties
The internship provides work experience in all aspects of managing collections in a major herbarium and an opportunity to contribute to a modern state flora program through a research project on some aspect of the flora of Pennsylvania. Duties include curation of botanical collections at The Academy of Natural Sciences (www.ansp.org), and participation in the Pennsylvania Flora Project at the Morris Arboretum (www.paflora.org).
As a member of the internship group at the Morris Arboretum, the Pennsylvania Flora Intern will participate in workshops, seminars, and field trips designed to demonstrate the varied aspects of management and operation of a public garden. The appointment includes a stipend plus University of Pennsylvania benefits package, including medical and dental insurance, two weeks paid vacation, sick leave, and tuition coverage for an additional 6 graduate credit hours.
Requirements
Applicants should have an undergraduate degree in botany, or biology with course work in botany.
To Apply
All applicants must complete the Penn online application process. Go to www.hr.upenn.edu/Jobs/Default.aspx. Click on the link to staff positions.
Click on the Search Postings button in the left column. In the school/center box, select Morris Arboretum. Select Pennsylvania Flora Internship from the list of openings. Follow the instructions to complete the application. Print and sign a copy of the completed application and send to the address below.
Also, send a letter of application including statement of interest in the internship, official college transcript(s), and have three letters of recommendation sent to:
Pennsylvania Flora Internship
Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania 100 East Northwestern Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19118
For more information, call or email:
Dr. Timothy A. Block
(215) 247-5777, ext. 130
Tatyana Livshultz | Assistant Curator of Botany The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA
19103-1101 USA ph. 215-299-1051 fax 215 299-1079 livshultz@ansp.org http://www.ansp.org/research/biodiv/botany/ http://ph.ansp.org/ | http://www.ansp.org