Student Summer Internships at the Yale Peabody Museum

Research Project: Vertebrate Zoology—Ornithology

Mentor: Kristof Zyskowski
Collections Manager, Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology), Yale Peabody Museum
kristof.zyskowski@yale.edu
Division of Vertebrate Zoology Ornithology Website

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Research in Ornithology
I am interested in the evolution and diversification of avian nests and the classification and biogeography of birds of the world. My field research includes studies of nest architecture and nesting behavior of passerine birds. I also conduct avifaunal surveys and specimen collecting, mainly in the New World tropics. Student interns could participate in these ongoing field activities or design independent field or collection-based research projects.

The Yale Peabody Museum collections include over 130,000 bird specimens representing 70% of world species, whereas the nest and egg collections contain mostly North American material.

To Apply

Interested? Send a one- to two-page project description, along with a letter of support from the mentor of this research project, to the internship program coordinator:

Eric Lazo-Wasem
Senior Collections Manager
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118 USA

203.432.3784
Fax 203.432.9816
eric.lazo-wasem@yale.edu


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