VOLUNTEER FIELD ASSISTANTS (2 positions available) needed for October 1, 2011
to June 1, 2012
(dates flexible but minimum 4 months) to assist with a study on the foraging
behavior of the tropical
frog-eating bat, Trachops cirrhosus. Work will be conducted at Smithsonian
Tropical Research
Institute facilities in Gamboa, PANAMA. No prior experience is required, but
applicants must be
comfortable working at night. Work will include mistnetting bats, behavioral
experiments, and bat
husbandry. Pre-exposure rabies vaccines are required. Assistants are expected
to work 5 days a
week with 2 days off. I will cover housing and $200 per month for food, but no
salary is available. If
interested, please send a resume and contact information for three references
to PATRICIA JONES.
(email: [email protected]).
