The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium is seeking to hire two paid interns as part of a multi-institutional NSF-funded Digitization TCN: Digitizing "Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful: Facilitating Research on Imperiled Plants with Extreme Morphologies."
Interns will assist with the barcoding, imaging, and data transcription of carnivorous, epiphytic, and succulent plant herbarium specimens in the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at The New York Botanical Garden. Applicants should be biology/botany/museum majors or recent graduates, have a desire to work in a museum setting, and be team and detail oriented.
Applications due by January 18th.
Dr. Barbara M. Thiers
Vice President
Patricia K. Holmgren Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium
Curator of Bryophytes
Editor, Index Herbariorum
President, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, NY 10458-5126
bthiers@nybg.org
718-817-8626