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Interns will work on digitizing the Field Museum's Fossil Invertebrate collection of Devonian marine invertebrate fossils. This will include data entry of specimen label data into our EMu database, photographing fossils and labels, and some Facebook posts about the fossils. This is part of an IMLS grant to digitize the Devonian fossils in the Field Museum's Fossil Invertebrate collections. Interns will work directly with the fossils.The Field Museum will provide EMu and photography training. Experience with paleontology courses and/or database management is a plus.
These internships will be awarded to undergraduate students (or recently graduated - 6 months max.) currently studying geology, paleontology, museum studies, or a related field who have proven verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated knowledge of geology as a discipline, the ability to work effectively as a member of a team on a variety of tasks, and who demonstrate familiarity and have experience and interest with photography and processing digital information. Salary of $16.50 per hour at 35 hours per week.
Applicants must apply through the Field Museum website at www.fieldmuseum.org/careers. Applications through other websites will not be considered.
Important Note: In order to protect the health and safety of our employees, guests and their families, the Field Museum is requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Requests for exemptions from the vaccine will not be considered as given the nature of this position, we are unable to provide an accommodation for anyone who has not been vaccinated.
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