Undergraduate Internship in Tropical Ecology and Evolution – Summer 2011

University of Puerto Rico

The Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies is accepting applications
for the Summer 2011 internship in Tropical Ecology and Evolution at El
Verde Field Station, Puerto Rico. The internship will run from May 30
to August 7th, 2011.

Application deadline: 15 March 2011.

The program will offer students the opportunity to have hands-on
experience fields such as:

- Stream Ecology and Consumer-Resource Linkages
- Plant-animal interactions
- Aquatic Insect Ecology
- Plant Reproductive Ecology and Evolution

Students will receive a stipend of $5,000 for the ten weeks duration
of the program. Round-trip plane ticket from home institution to
Puerto Rico will be reimbursed, up to a maximum of $600. The program
will cover housing at the University of Puerto Rico and El Verde Field
Station. The National Science Foundation and the University of Puerto
Rico, Rio Piedras campus, fund the program.

The program is limited to undergraduate students pursuing a bachelor
degree at a college or university during summer 2011 that are US
citizen or permanent resident.

Application materials and further information can be found at
http://web.ites.upr.edu/reu/