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Paleontology and Quarry Steward Internship with ACE EPIC and BLM

Resource Education: The intern will assist in implementing and delivering hands-on, inquiry and curriculum based education programs to k-6 school students regarding geology, ecology, and fossils. Projects may also include developing new lesson plans, maintaining program statistics, and creating visual aids.

Visitor Center Outreach: The intern will help staff the visitor center and interact with visitors, providing information on the site, interpretative displays, available site activities, and leading guided tours. Additionally, the intern will assist other visitor center duties such as, fee collection, bookstore operation, and general center maintenance (sweeping and care of interpretative displays).

Interns will have the opportunity to work with professional paleontologists, and spend part of the week working at the Prehistoric Museum in Price. This includes learning fossil prep work, supporting in the creation of exhibits, and prospecting in the field for new sites. Some interns enjoy volunteering at the museum on their day's off. Interns may get the chance to work with partners to look for new vertebrate fossil sites in the field as well. 

Interns may also have the opportunity to work with visiting students from the University of Wisconsin/Oshkosh and Indiana University of Pennsylvania teams in the bonebed in July. Teams will be camping in the field and interns will have the opportunity to join them. Other programs include field crews from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. 

Interns are expected to work 5 days per week. Hours are fluid (with starting times ranging from 6am-9am), and work schedules for the visitor center and education staff will require weekend and holiday work.