Wildlife Internship Opportunity
Foraging Behavior and Movement of White-Footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) Study
From Grace Hummel, ENST graduate student:
I am a Master student in the ENST program, looking for help on an upcoming project that will start August 28, 2017 and run until November 10, 2017. Applications should be submitted no later than September 8 2017. In this study, I will be collaring white-footed mice to track their movement and behavior as it pertains to tick control treatments. This study falls under a larger research project run by the USDA in Howard County, Maryland. Interns will be required to help collar and track white-footed mice. Interns are expected to work a total of 10-16 hours a week, and trapping will occur 5 times a week to place collars on mice and retrieve collars from the field. Interns are expected to come out for 1 or 2 of those days each week. This job requires extensive telemetry work and training will be provided before technicians enter the field.
Technicians would be required to:
Foraging Behavior and Movement of White-Footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) Study
From Grace Hummel, ENST graduate student:
I am a Master student in the ENST program, looking for help on an upcoming project that will start August 28, 2017 and run until November 10, 2017. Applications should be submitted no later than September 8 2017. In this study, I will be collaring white-footed mice to track their movement and behavior as it pertains to tick control treatments. This study falls under a larger research project run by the USDA in Howard County, Maryland. Interns will be required to help collar and track white-footed mice. Interns are expected to work a total of 10-16 hours a week, and trapping will occur 5 times a week to place collars on mice and retrieve collars from the field. Interns are expected to come out for 1 or 2 of those days each week. This job requires extensive telemetry work and training will be provided before technicians enter the field.
Technicians would be required to:
- Work early mornings or late evenings depending on grid trapping or collaring schedule (telemetry work will be done from 7:00 pm to 12:00 am.
- Use GPS units to record trap locations.
- Use telemetry equipment, and be comfortable finding points under 4 minutes (training will be provided.)
- Use a topographical maps.
- Help take tissue, blood and tick samples from mice.
- Help manage mouse transects and telemetry walking trails.
- Help clean and bait Sherman traps.
- Organize and upload data points.
Grace Hummell
USDA-ARS, IIBBL
BARC-West, Bldg 007