MARCH 11, 2002
CABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OFFERS PAID SUMMER INTERNSHIP

The Cable Natural History Museum is offering a paid summer internship to a currently enrolled college student with an interest in natural history and phenology – the observation and study of seasonal change. The internship will last 10 weeks during the summer, during which the intern will work full-time at the Museum. Applications are due by April 12, 2002.

The intern will create and develop the Museum Phenology Society, an organization that will provide a network of support and resources for the Museum’s volunteer phenologists. In addition to the stipend, interns will be provided with housing for the duration of the internship at the Musem’s guest an intern house near Cable.

For the past six years, the Museum has published an annual phenology calendar using data submitted by about 100 volunteers from around northwest Wisconsin. The Phenology Society will provide a supportive organizational structure and recognition for these volunteers through a regular newsletter, development of a phenology database on the Museum’s web site, and other resources.

Applicants must be undergraduate students currently enrolled in any Minnesota, North Dakota or Wisconsin college or university and who will be continuing their undergraduate studies in the fall of 2002.

The internship is made possible by a grant from the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs’ (HECUA) Partners Internship Program. HECUA is a non-profit consortium that has been developing academic-community partnerships for social change regionally and internationally for over 30 years.