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Spring 2025 Herbarium Intern

  • Category: Professional Internship Program
  • Position Type: Student Hourly
  • Posted on: November 13, 2024
  • Open until: filled
  • Work Hours: Up to 20 hours per week
  • Wage: $12/hr for undergraduate students, $14/hr for graduate students
  • Location: Cedar City, UT

Description:

The herbarium intern will assist with all aspects of specimen management and curation of the Bowns Herbarium at SUU. It is intended to provide relevant work experience for students interested in botany, especially those with an emphasis on taxonomy and working with natural history collections.

This internship is part of the Spring 2025 Professional Internship Program. To be eligible for the program you must:

  • Be enrolled as an SUU student during the course of the internship.
  • Have and maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
  • Be willing to work 10 to 20 hours per week.
  • Provide thoughtful responses in your application.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage herbarium database, accurately entering specimen label data
  • Handle dried plant specimens, including mounting specimens on herbarium sheets and
  • Taking digital photos of specimens to be uploaded to the online database

Qualifications:

  • Have taken at least General Biology 2
  • Have an interest in plants
  • Have an interest in curation/specimen management