Diann Prosser's lab at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center is now soliciting applications for undergraduate interns for our summer field season. While COVID-19 certainly presented some logistical challenges, we completed a full field season last year and intend to do so again. We take extensive efforts to ensure everyone's safety while out in the field and conduct data entry/other office tasks remotely.
Selected individuals would join our team for the summer and gain hands on experience monitoring breeding waterbird communities in the Chesapeake Bay. While specific focus is paid to Common and Least Terns, this project also includes work with egrets, herons, and gulls. The majority of interns time is spent conducting a mark recapture study, though some time is dedicated to ad
