Pennsylvania State University-posted 7 months ago
Part-time • Entry Level
Onsite • State College, PA
Educational Services

The Department of Entomology in the College of Agricultural Sciences is seeking applicants for part-time job of a Summer Research Assistant working alongside a current PhD student who is working on insect biodiversity and monitoring in Stone Valley Research Forest. The assistant will use two common traps for pollinator monitoring, blue-vane traps and bee bowls, and one newer technique, clear-vane traps, to compare trap efficacy and understand how biodiversity changes in different forest areas across time. Traps were placed in 2023 and 2024 for 1 week in 4 unique months per year, with tens of thousands of insects collected.

  • Help identify collected insect materials to the family-level
  • Provide training on insect identification and museum curation techniques
  • Interest in insect biodiversity and museum collections
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
  • Prior study of insect biodiversity preferred but not required
  • Compensation at a rate of $15 an hour
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