The University of Southern Mississippi
Psychology Department is offering a Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition
internship to college juniors, seniors and recent graduates for the fall of
2009. College credits for the internship are awarded by the University of
Southern Mississippi.
Interns will work with faculty and graduate
student researchers and will have an opportunity to help in the analysis of
data from USM’s Mississippi Wild Dolphin Project, a boat-based research project
surveying the Mississippi Gulf Coast bottlenose dolphin population. Interns may
assist in the analysis of environmental, behavioral, and acoustic data, as well
as photo-ID.
In the research laboratory, interns will gain
experience in different areas, such as behavioral analysis using video and
ethogram data and acoustic analyses of a variety of cetacean species, including
killer whales, sperm whales, beaked whales, and bottlenose and rough-tooth
dolphins. Interns may also have the opportunity to assist graduate students in
the collection of behavioral data of captive rough-tooth dolphins and
bottlenose dolphins. Interns are also encouraged to complete a small personal
research project on a topic relevant to their research interests.
The internship is a full time voluntary
position, and students are responsible for their own transportation and housing
arrangements.
Students interested in the Marine Mammal
Behavior and Cognition internship are required to send:
a resumea letter of intent including career goals and reasons for wanting
the internship (what you expect to contribute and gain from the
internship)an unofficial or official copy of your transcriptsat least two
letters of recommendation (preferably from college
professors who know you personally)
All materials should be sent to:
Internship Coordinator
Department of Psychology
The University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive, # 5025
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5025
Materials may arrive separately or
together, but the complete application
must be postmarked by July 1st.
We encourage interested applicants to
become familiar with the research conducted by the Marine Mammal Behavior and
Cognition Lab. For more information, please visit our website at
www.usm.edu/psy-kuczaj or you can
email the internship coordinator at [email protected].
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