HOW TO APPLY TO & SUCCEED IN GRAD SCHOOL

• Eileen Lacey's tips on, "APPLYING TO GRAD SCHOOL"

• Eric L. Walter's,  "PRIMER ON GETTING INTO GRAD SCHOOL"

• John N. Thompson's advice, "ON BEING A SUCCESSFUL GRADUATE STUDENT IN THE SCIENCES"

Internships & Research ExperienceS for Undergraduates

On-campus research opportunities:
Visit my "Team Page" for opportunities in the Behavioral Ecology Lab and the Barrett Program at Mills College

Off-campus research and study abroad opportunities:
Animal Behavior Institute, Jobs, Internships & Graduate Opportunities

Animal Care Opportunities, Oakland Zoo, Oakland, California 

Biological Intern, John Muir National Historic Site, Martinez, California 
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California Academy of Sciences Intern, Golden Gate Park San Francisco, California 

Conservation Research Summer College Student Fellowships, San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego, CA 

Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Naples, Florida 
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Darling Marine Center, Walpole, Maine 
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Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alaska 

Field Projects in Tropical Ecology & Primates, Peru

Fossil Rim Internships in Animal Care & Education, Glen Rose, Texas
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Friday Harbor Laboratories, San Juan Island, WA 

Golden Gate National Parks, San Francisco, California 

Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, Gulfport, Mississippi 

Lindsay Wildlife Museum Rehabilitation & Animal Keeper Internships, Walnut Creek, California

Maritime Studies Program of Williams College & Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut 

Marine Physical Laboratory, La Jolla, California 

Marine Science Internships at Woods Hole, Massachusetts 

Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, California 

Mathematical & Theoretical Biology Institute Summer Research Program, Arizona State Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute, Tempe, Arizona 

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California 

Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida 

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) Undergraduate Program, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 

New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts  

Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon City, Oregon

Ornithological jobs, Ornithological Society of America (study birds!)

REU in Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 

REU in Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

REU in Biological Basis of Human and Animal Behavior, Oklahoma State University

REU in Drought Resiliency and Natural Resources Issues in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin Region, University of Nevada, Reno

REU in Field Biology, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Colorado 

REU: Ecology in Context, Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York 

REU in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder 

REU in Marine Biology and Environmental Science, South Carolina, Natural Resources

REU in Mathematical Modeling of Ecology and Physiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

School for Field Studies (field sites and programs across the globe!) 

Shannon Point Marine Center, Washington 

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois 

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Washington, DC 

Smithsonian Institution Internships, Washington, DC 

Student Conservation Association (Internships across the nation!) 

Teach for America (placements across the nation!) 

Wells Reserve Jobs & Internships, Well, Maine