Summer Employment on Marth'a Vineyard

[David L. Wagner]

The Nature Conservancy on Martha's Vineyard is looking for a student 
(undergrad, grad, postdoc) to conduct insect surveys on the 
Vineyard this coming summer.  The thrust will be on sampling for sand 
plain grassland and pine barren insects.  Focal taxa will include 
butterflies, moths, dragonflies and damselflies, ants, and ground 
beetles (but think and read MOTHS).  

I have approximately $3,500 available for the project.  There would 
be some money for supplies and travel as well.  It would include free 
lodging.  Martha's Vineyard is one of the nicest spots 
localities in New England and faunistically very interesting.

The thrust will be to sample two new properties that are of interest 
to TNC as well as establish a protocol for background invertebrate 
monitoring on other key Nature Conservancy properties.

I am especially interested in getting livestock of caterpillars 
for a project that I am working on, hence I am looking for someone to 
do considerable collecting at sheets as well as  beating (for 
larvae).

The grant would come to my lab and I would oversee the project:  
helping with ID's, report writing, etc. 

I will be away from 7-25 March.  I prefer you send messages here to 
this email address, but if you need to move quickly you may contact 
me at alas at sloth.ots.ac.cr (after the 8th).
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David L. Wagner
U-Box 43
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
Ph. 860-486-2139; Fax 860-486-6364