<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Please see these great opportunities below for a paid summer internship working on urban monarch conservation. To apply please send 1) your resume 2) a letter of interest stating which position you are applying for, what skills you bring to this position, and how this training and experience would benefit your career goals and 3) contact information for two references to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:aderby@fieldmuseum.org" target="_blank" class="">aderby@fieldmuseum.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">by April 30th.</b> </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Thank you! </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">_________________________________________________________________</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" class="">Urban Monarch Technicians for Summer 2016</span><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; line-height: 16px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><font style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">The </font><font color="#222222" class="">Field</font> Museum is partnered with the US Fish<font style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""> and Wildlife Service to </font><font color="#222222" class="">develop</font> a conservation design for the monarch butterfly in urban areas. The project, called “A <font color="#222222" class=""><font class="">Monarch</font>’s View of the City”, integrates ecological and social information from across the urban landscape to help identify and guide where the best places are to put monarch habitat, and what the best ways are to engage different stakeholder groups who might be interested in putting habitat on the ground.</font></font></span></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><font color="#222222" class=""><br class=""></font></font></span></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><font color="#222222" class="">The Field Museum will be hiring three full-time paid summer positions to help contribute data and information to this exciting project. The duration is for 12-weeks (approximately May 16 to Aug 8, 2016; but start date is somewhat flexible). </font></font></span></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><font color="#222222" class=""><br class=""></font></font></span></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><font color="#222222" class="">The fist position is an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Ecological </b></font><font color="#222222" class=""><font class=""><b class="">Technician</b>. </font>This person </font>will be trained by Museum staff in ecological sampling methodology and monarch biological monitoring protocol in order to collect information at urban sites on a variety of habitat characteristics, including but not limited to: milkweed density, floristic diversity and total habitat acreage. </font></span></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Qualifications and experience:</font></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><ul class=""><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Chicago Region plant </span></font><font class="">identification</font><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> skills</span></font></font></li><li style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Experience with ecological sampling and/or invertebrate sampling </font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class="">Understanding of monarch biology</li><li style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Valid driver<span style="line-height: 17px;" class="">’s </span>license and access to a car</font></li></ul></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px;" class=""><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><font class=""></font></font></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">The second position is a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Social Science Technician</b>. This person will assist with the qualitative component of the project, including </font></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">data entry, coding and maintenance of social survey </span><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">responses and literature review. They will also be trained to conduct semi-structured </font><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">interviews, as well as interview follow up. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Qualifications</font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""> and experience:</font></span></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px;" class=""><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><ul class=""><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Social Science degree (or degree-seeking) and/or professional experience with processing and analyzing qualitative data </font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px;" class="">Basic understanding of social network analysis </span></font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px;" class="">Familiarity with qualitative data coding software </span></font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px;" class="">Detail-oriented and well organized</span></font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Excellent interpersonal skills (including flexibility and ability to balance putting people at ease and maintaining the structure of the interview)</font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" class="">Valid driver</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">’s </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" class="">license and access to a car</span></li></ul></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px;" class=""><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">The third position is a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Monarch Coordinator</b>. This person manages the day to day logistics and scheduling of the technicians, helps to manage data entry, and assist the Social Science Coordinator in research related activities. </font></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Qualifications</font><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""> and experience:</font></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Minimum BA or higher </font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Interest and general knowledge in urban ecology </font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Professional experience in administrative or coordinator capacity </font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Experience managing staff </font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 17px;" class="">Extremely organized </span></font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Basic social science research experience </font></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 17px;" class="">Excellent interpersonal skills</span></li></ul></div></blockquote></div><span class="HOEnZb" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">Abigail Derby Lewis, Ph.D.<br class="">Conservation Ecologist<br class="">Keller Science Action Center<br class="">The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive<br class="">Chicago, IL 60605<br class="">ph.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="tel:312%20665%207488" value="+13126657488" target="_blank" class="">312 665 7488</a> <br class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font class=""><a href="http://fieldmuseum.org/users/abigail-derby-lewis" target="_blank" class="">http://fieldmuseum.org/users/abigail-derby-lewis</a><br class=""></font></div></div></div></div></div></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>