Assistant Curator
Eastern Kentucky University•Richmond, VA
•Onsite
About The Position
Student assistance needed for mounting, digitizing, sorting and preparing duplicates for exchange, processing exchanged specimens, and filing of herbarium specimens. Students will gain experience working with curated specimens and understand the processes necessary to maintain and expand such collections. Students are specifically selected based on their interest working in the botanical world or with natural history collections. Currently the herbarium is maintained by a single curator and one graduate student who works a few hours a week in the herbarium.
Requirements
- Must be enrolled full time
Nice To Haves
- Interest in working in the botanical world
- Interest in working with natural history collections
Responsibilities
- Mounting herbarium specimens
- Digitizing herbarium specimens
- Sorting herbarium specimens
- Preparing duplicates for exchange
- Processing exchanged specimens
- Filing of herbarium specimens
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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