Northeast Fisheries Science Center Announces 2012 Bradford E. Brown Summer Internship Program for Undergraduate Students

enlarge image James Reidy worked at the Milford (Conn.) Laboratory as a Bradford E. Brown student intern in 2010 and 2011. (Credit: NEFSC/NOAA) enlarge image Laura Williams, a 2011 summer student intern at the Orono Field Station, in the Penobscot Estuary in Maine. (Credit: NEFSC/NOAA)

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Research topics include population biology and dynamics, resource assessment and environmental surveys, taxonomy, physical and biological oceanography, social sciences, data management, larval fish/plankton ecology, large marine ecosystems, aquaculture, biotechnology, remote sensing, protected species and apex predators. Further information about the Northeast Fisheries Science Center and its research facilities is available online at: http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/aboutus.html

Pending available funding, summer positions are offered throughout the Center’s six laboratories, which are located in Woods Hole, Mass.; Narragansett, R.I.; Milford, Conn.; Highlands, N.J., Washington, D.C. and Orono, Maine.  Summer positions are filled by matching an applicant’s skills and interest with an appropriate area of research within these laboratories. The 2012 list of summer job/internship opportunities and all related information and requirements can be found online at http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/sstudent/.

To participate in the internship program, applicants must be an active full-time student or half-time undergraduate/graduate student at a college or university for the upcoming 2012 school year at the time of application, or be accepted as a full-time or half-time student in an academic program for the 2012 school year by the time the summer position begins. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen. All completed application materials must be postmarked by April 15, 2012.

Questions about the program may be directed to NEFSC.Summer.Intern@noaa.gov

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