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Undergraduate Summer Employment

Wildlife Ecology majors at the University of Maine add greatly to their educational experience via summer employment.  The Department actively assists students in finding and obtaining summer and other employment.  Below are examples of agencies, organizations or projects that employed University of Maine Wildlife Ecology majors in summer 2003, 2004 and 2005.  Following that is a list of examples of positions held by our students in prior years.  In most cases, students were field technicians or held positions of a similar level.  If a student worked with a particular species in their job or in an allied field that information is in parentheses.

Note:   Some students work in the Wildlife Ecology program during the academic year, primarily through work-study and work merit programs.

Summer 2005

• Idaho Department of Fish & Game (fisheries)

• U S Fish and Wildlife Service (black brant)

• University of Michigan (fisheries)

• Penobscot River restoration project

• Maine Department of Marine Resources (anadromous fishes)

• USGS Cooperative Unit Vermont (grassland birds)

• Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge

• U S Forest Service

• Platte River Trust/University of Nebraska (grassland birds)

• College of the Atlantic (marine mammal stranding network)

• Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge

• Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge

• Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Maine (lynx, fish/mussels, seals, amphibians, small mammals, turtles, least bitterns)

• Atlantic Salmon Commission

• Maine Conservation Corps

• Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (Swans' Island)

Summer 2004

• Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge

• Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Maine (endangered mussels, fishless ponds, seals, lynx)

• Atlantic Salmon Commission

• Maine Department of Marine Resources (anadromous fish)

• Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (muskie)

• Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maine (white-throated sparrows)

• USDA (blueberries)

• Holt Forest, University of Maine (small mammals)

• Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences (amphibians, weed ecology)

Summer 2003

• Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge (seabirds)

• Sunkhaze National Wildlife Refuge

• Vermont Fish and Game (bats)

• Atlantic Salmon Commission (salmon)

• USDA Cooperative Extension

• Arizona Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

• Maine Conservation School

• Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (dolphins)

• Utah Division of Wildlife Resources

• U S Fish and Wildlife Service - Alaska (salmon)

• New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (environmental educator)

• Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Maine (least terns, fish, amphibians)