The New York Botanical Garden is pleased to announce the Belize Internship Program. This new initiative, part of the Ethnobotany and Floristics of Belize Project, seeks to further document the flora of Belize and build capacity for botanical science through teaching, research and development.

Museums and herbaria throughout the world have embarked on ambitious programs to make their collections available to a wider audience through digitization and internet access. With the Virtual Herbarium, The New York Botanical Garden continues to be a world leader in these efforts. The Virtual Herbarim is a database of plant and fungal data transcribed from specimen labels of the Garden collections. Included in the catalog are high-resolution digital images of select specimens. An average of 7,500 new specimen records and 5,000 images are added to the database each month.

Goals: This program is designed to make herbarium specimen information from the New York Botanical Garden's Belize holdings available to a wider audience via the internet. As they acquire skills in nomenclature, computerization and basic botany, it is hoped that all participants will gain a greater appreciation for and capacity to safeguard the plants around them.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must have completed some college-level coursework in biology.
• Willingness to work in a team environment, following direction of the team leader
• Must be detail oriented and not easily bored performing repetitive tasks

Desired Qualifications:

• Coursework in botany
• Familiarity with databases
• Desire to work in museum or research environment

Application Instructions:

Send letter of interest, resume stating work and study experience and 3 letters of recommendation to: Mr. Daniel Atha, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY. 10458 or email package to: datha@nybg.org.