Internships
The Center for the Urban River at Beczak offers internships to students looking to gain hands-on experience in education, the sciences and more. Interns play a vital role in supporting our education programs by assisting educators with our inquiry-based Hudson River lessons, team-teaching and leading classes. Interns also help out with our various research projects including water quality monitoring, eel sampling, and fish surveys (seining).
Internship placements are available during the spring, summer, and fall semesters and may be non-credit or for academic credit. Prior experience in education, research, and/or Hudson River ecology is desirable but not necessary as training will be provided. All positions are unpaid unless otherwise noted. For additional information contact Outreach Coordinator Jason Muller at jmuller@sarahlawrence.edu. Please see below for available positions.
Paid Internship Opportunity for Sarah Lawrence College Students
CURB is seeking a student intern for our paid River Ecology Internship position. This internship will span both the fall and spring semesters, and is specifically for Sarah Lawrence College students.
The CURB River Ecology Intern’s primary responsibility will be to assist with a variety of hands-on Hudson River Ecology research projects as part of an afterschool program for Yonkers high school students.
The program, called the EELS (Evaluating Estuarine Lateral Species) Team, gives 10 Yonkers high school students the opportunity to conduct paid afterschool research at CURB. Their research projects will focus on Hudson River Ecology and include data from seining, migratory eel monitoring, eDNA analysis, and use of water chemistry data. With mentorship from staff, Sarah Lawrence students, and their teachers they will create presentations to be shared with the community. The intern will work side-by-side with the EELS Team and CURB staff to conduct this research and mentor the students.
For more information about this position, please click here.
Applications are being accepted for Fall 2024 internship positions with our seining research and education programs.