[QSB-grads] Fwd: Other: UtahStateU_Smithsonian.Intern.LifeHistoryEvolutionBees

[Miriam Barlow]

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From: <evoldir at evol.biology.mcmaster.ca>
Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 1:33 AM
Subject: Other: UtahStateU_Smithsonian.Intern.LifeHistoryEvolutionBees
To: <mbarlow at ucmerced.edu>



I am seeking a field assistant to help with PhD research on the neotropical
facultatively social sweat bee *Megalopta genalis *at the Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute (STRI) on Barro Colorado Island from Feb-Jun
2019 (four months).

This project will be looking at the relationships between life history
traits important to the evolution of sociality while focusing on the
facultatively social sweat bee *M. genalis*. Work will be conducted on the
Barro Colorado Island (BCI), a research station situated in the Panama
Canal, Panama operated by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The
combination of tropical fieldwork and an internationally-known research
station makes this an excellent opportunity to get experience and exposure
to research.

Main field duties include finding nests of *Megalopta genalis* and
husbandry of bees. This requires hiking through the tropical forest on BCI
both on and off trail system. Duties will also include setting up new
adults in artificial nests for the purposes of tracking colony development.
It’s also expected that the intern will develop an independent research
project curtailed to their own interests over the course of the 4 months,
ideally having to do with the study organism. The candidate will work 5-6
days per week in the field depending upon the available bees. The candidate
must be both able to work in a team while also being self-motivated when
working alone. Further, an ideal candidate will be excited about field
research and be able to live in a relatively secluded area for the four
months, although there are frequent and available trips to the city as
well.

Volunteers/Interns will have food and housing at the field site paid for in
addition to transportation to field site (up to $1000) and be given
$200/month stipend over the four months.

Previous experience in field work or research is helpful but not essential.

Panama is a mainly Spanish-speaking country so Spanish language skills will
be helpful, though they are not essential.

To apply send a CV and a brief cover letter explaining why you would be
interested in the job to frances.hunter at aggiemail.usu.edu with the subject
heading “Field Intern Job”.

Feel free to email me if you would like more information.

Frances (Kate) Hunter
PhD Graduate Student
Ecology(Biology)
Utah State University
BNR 301
7202332791

Kate Hunter <franceskhunter at gmail.com>



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Miriam Barlow
Founding Faculty and Professor
Chair, Quantitative and Systems Biology
University of California, Merced

209.228.4174
miriam.barlow at gmail.com
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