Internship or Supervised Research Request
Getting Started
An internship or supervised research with Wildlife Forensic Sciences & Conservation can help students gain hands-on professional skills that go beyond the online experience.
- Internships: On-site work in conservation, ecology or wildlife management field work, animal care, zoos, or laboratories are great opportunities to apply the knowledge built by the program.
- Grading and Max Credits: Graduate Catalog Info WIS6946
- Supervised Research: Want to explore special topics in-depth? You can distinguish yourself for job prospects by gaining key skills in designing research, working with laboratories and field experience. Syllabus (PDF)
Here is what you need to prepare:
- Fill out the form below. It will be reviewed by the program coordinators, Program Director Susan Underkoffler, MFS, and Dr. Ngaio Richards. It is important to detail your goals and how an internship or supervised research will support them.
- If possible, take WIS6050 Professional Communication in Wildlife Forensic Science to bolster your writing skills.
- Before you can register, the internship or supervised research must be approved. You will submit a detailed plan to Susan Underkoffler, MFS, and Dr. Ngaio Richards.
- After you are approved, you will register for
- For Internships: WIS6946 Internship in Wildlife Forensic Sciences and Conservation (1-6 credits)
- For Supervised Research: WIS6905: Supervised Research (1-5 credits)
- Due to the development time involved, internships and/or supervised research will not be considered in your last semester of the program.
Courses
- Applied Wildlife Forensic Genetics
- Aquatic Animal Pathology & Forensic Science
- Bird Language
- Carrion Ecology and Evolution
- Conservation Medicine
- Cybercrime in Wildlife Investigations
- Environmental Risk Assessment of Veterinary Drugs
- Forensic DNA Statistics and Applied Population Genetics
- Forensic Science for Conservation Biology
- Human-Wildlife Conflict
- International Wildlife Conservation Law, Policy and Ethics
- Introduction to Applied Statistics for Agricultural and Life Science
- Negative and Suboptimal Research Findings in Wildlife Forensics
- Professional Communication in Wildlife Forensic Sciences
- Research Problems in Wildlife and Range Sciences (Supervised Research)
- Skeletal Trauma Analysis in Animals
- Topics in Geographic Information Systems (GIS Fundamentals)
- U.S. Wildlife Law, Policy and Ethics
- Wildlife Crime Scene Processing
- Wildlife Forensic Pathology
- Wildlife Forensics Internship
- Wildlife Toxicology: The Ecohealth Perspective
- Wildlife Tracks and Sign
- Working Dogs in Conservation and Forensic Sciences