Volunteers Needed for Second Half of the 2016 Season!!! TWO volunteer field assistants needed for a study of ecology of colonial, cooperative breeding and foraging behavior in the Hispaniolan Woodpecker in the Dominican Republic. Field research assistants will participate in data collection during an intensive ~3.5-month field season. Assistant duties will include (but are not limited to) nest monitoring, focal behavioral observations (including nest watches and foraging records), assisting with tree-climbing, color- band reading, nest-searching, assisting with bird capture and processing, and data entry. I am currently looking for:
TWO volunteer assistants needed to arrive between 15 and 30 April (flexible) and remain until ~30 July. Applications will be accepted until positions are filled, but preference will be given to those submitted by 26 March. Please read the full position announcement for more details: https://sites.google.com/site/joshlapergola/volunteer2016 Application instructions: Please send: 1) a cover letter (1 page) detailing your interests and career goals and how you see this internship fitting in with them, 2) a resume or CV (keep it to relevant details), 3) an unofficial transcript (or simple list of courses and grades on a spreadsheet), and 4) the names and contact information (email and phone) of 3 references (ideally with some experience with how you work in a research/field context). Please also indicate the nature of your professional relationship to EACH reference (e.g., field supervisor, academic advisor, professor for a class, etc.). PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU DO NOT REQUIRE A STIPEND. Contact: Joshua B. LaPergola email: jbl96 AT cornell.edu ************************* Joshua B. LaPergola, M.S. Ph.D. Candidate Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Cornell University W343 Seeley G. Mudd Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Cornell office ext. 4-4370 contact in Dominican Republic: 829-321-8582 [email protected] https://sites.google.com/site/joshlapergola/ Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail or any unimportant document. "For in the end, our society will be defined not by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy." - John C. Sawhill, 2000
