PAID - Salt Marsh Intern
Buzzards Bay (New Bedford, MA)
The Buzzards Bay Coalition, in partnership with the MarineBiological Laboratory Ecosystems Center (MBL), the Westport Fishermen’s
Association, and the Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program, is seeking a Salt
Marsh Intern for summer 2016 to examine rapid salt marsh loss in the Westport
Rivers.
With guidance from project partners, the Salt Marsh Intern
will perform the core elements of a three-part project: develop a historical
timeline of salt mash loss and upland land used changes based on aerial
imagery, execute a field sampling plan, and perform laboratory analysis of the
samples collected. This full-time, temporary position will employed by the
Buzzards Bay Coalition and report directly to Linda Deegan, and Christopher
Neill, Scientists at the MBL, while working closely with project partners.
The Salt Marsh Intern will have a desk at the Buzzards Bay
Center in New Bedford but will also spend significant time in the field in
Westport and at the MBL lab facilities in Woods Hole. This is a full-time,
temporary position for 8-10 weeks over the time period of June 10 to August 19,
2016.
The intern will be compensated with a stipend of $500 per
week with an option for subsidized housing. No health insurance or other
benefits are available. More information available at
www.savebuzzardsbay.org/jobs Interested applicants should send a cover letter
and resume to: Rachel Jakuba, Buzzards Bay Coalition Science Director at