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<div><b style="font-size: large; font-family: Verdana; ">Call for Applications</b></div>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.7651870718691498" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">VertNet is pleased to announce the
</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">VertNet Undergraduate Internship</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">,
scheduled for the </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Summer of 2013</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">.
This internship is an opportunity for two undergraduate students to gain valuable training and practical experience in biodiversity informatics, biodiversity research and systematics, and museum collection management.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Two internship positions are available; one at the University of California, Berkeley, and one at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Internships will not
exceed three months (12 weeks) and will include participation in VertNet’s Biodiversity Informatics Training Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, on June 24-28</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">
</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">(</span><a href="http://vertnet.org/about/BITW.php)."><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">http://vertnet.org/about/BITW.php)</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">,
as a part of the Interns’ training.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Who should apply?</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We welcome applications from eligible student from within the United States and U.S. Territories interested in pursuing
a biodiversity informatics project while exploring the practice of science as conducted at a natural history museum. Undergraduate students and students preparing to graduate in Spring 2013 are eligible to apply. We are interested in individuals who are
self-motivated and can apply new tools and data resources creatively to questions of biodiversity, which may be in ecology, conservation, geography, evolutionary biology, environmental science, computer science, museums, or library and information science.
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Interns will work with the VertNet project team of experienced museum curators, researchers, and informaticists, as well as individuals from VertNet integration
partners, such as AmphibiaWeb, Animal Diversity Web, and EOL, to design and conduct a research project that synthesizes and analyzes data from multiple biodiversity resources. These projects can be informatics-based, writing code and programming novel ways
to analyze or display these kinds of data, or they can be biologically-focused, using data to answer questions about species diversity, ecology, evolution, or distributions. The internship will emphasize the creation, use, and analysis of aggregated biodiversity
data from VertNet, and other sites, for research and data improvement and the contribution of data back to these sites. We expect research project to focus on assembling species dataset for use in spatial ecological modeling or global change biology. We
are, however, open to other research topics and foci. Projects do not need to be fully realized at the time of application.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Publication of the results from the internship is encouraged and will be supported by the VertNet team. Publication may take the form of web-based species
accounts for VertNet integration partners, georeferencing species occurrence data, open-source software, or collaborations on other scientific publications. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">VertNet Project Team members (</span><a href="http://vertnet.org/about/team.php)"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">http://vertnet.org/about/team.php</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">)
at CU Boulder include Robert Guralnick and Javier Otegui. Team members at UC Berkeley include Carla Cicero, Carol Spencer, Michelle Koo, David Bloom, John Wieczorek, and Aaron Steele. In addition to individual research project mentors, Interns will work
with members of the VertNet Project Team and possibly other museum staff at both institutions to learn about daily operations of museum, and how those local activities tie into the larger perspective of global informatics.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">At the end of the internship, participants should have:</span><br>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">an understanding of the evolution of, and the workflows within, a research project;</span></li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; ">
<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">basic skills and experience using data repositories, biodiversity informatics and analytic tools, and an understanding of which tools are appropriate for specific tasks;</span></li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; ">
<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">an understanding of the operation and maintenance of a natural history collection;</span></li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; ">
<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">knowledge of the abundant biodiversity resources and additional training available to them.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Workshop Selection and Support</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Acceptance to the VertNet Undergraduate Internship is a competitive, nation-wide process and is
limited to two (2) participants; one at UC Berkeley and one at CU Boulder. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">All
applications materials and recommendations must be received by 11:59pm PT on January 11, 2013 for consideration</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">.
Accepted participants will be notified in March 2013.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Individuals selected to participate will be considered full time employees of their respective
institutions and paid at the monthly rate of $3150 (CUBoulder)/$3300 (UCBerkeley). Interns will receive additional support to cover costs during the workshop for travel between Berkeley and Boulder and accommodations and per diem (when in residence at the
secondary institution). Interns will be responsible for their own travel to and from the internship and accommodations and daily needs while in residence at the primary institution. Support is available to help find accommodations in both locations.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Application materials are available at</span><a href="http://vertnet.org/about/BITW.php"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">
</span></a><a href="http://www.vertnet.org/about/Internship.php"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">http://www.vertnet.org/about/Internship.php</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">.
Submit all application materials online (</span><a href="http://www.vertnet.org/about/Internshipapplication.php"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">http://www.vertnet.org/about/Internshipapplication.php</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">)
or send all completed materials and one letter of recommendation to </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="mailto:dbloom@vertnet.org">dbloom@vertnet.org</a>.</span></b></div>
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<div>Laura Russell</div>
<div>VertNet Programmer</div>
<div>VertNet</div>
<div>KU Biodiversity Institute</div>
<div>1345 Jayhawk Blvd.</div>
<div>Dyche Hall, Room 606</div>
<div>Lawrence, KS 66045</div>
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<div>Phone: +01 785 864-4681</div>
<div>Fax: +01 785 864-5335</div>
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<div>email: larussell@vertnet.org</div>
<div>email: larussell@ku.edu</div>
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<div>Skype: laura.anne.russell</div>
<div>Gchat: larussell@vertnet.org</div>
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<div>url: www.vertnet.org</div>
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