Bozen/Bolzano
internship
Institute for Alpine Environment
BMS is an ongoing survey of biodiversity that serves as basic research, but it is also intended to provide a scientific base for political decisions concerning spatial planning, agriculture, and nature conservation.
BMS surveys animal and plant groups that react sensitively to climate and/or land-use changes, at habitat and landscape level.
These surveys occur in 320 terrestrial and more than 100 aquatic sites distributed over the entire province of South Tyrol (7400 km²), including a large share of the diversity of habitats in the region.
For details please consult our webpage biodiversity.eurac.edu
**Tasks**:
- Support of soil surveys for the season 2025 within the monitoring standard program and within special projects of the Biodiversity Monitoring (installing and regular emptying of pitfall traps
- Supporting with lab work, e.g., sample processing and storage and presorting of invertebrate samples
- Support of field work for other taxonomical groups, e.g.
bats, butterflies, grasshoppers and bees
**Requirements**:
- Bachelor/master's degree in biology or Environmental Sciences (or similar; degree obtained not more than one year ago).
- Willingness and availability to work in alpine areas
- Good faunistic knowledge and identification skills for invertebrate groups (soil and ground-dwelling macro-invertebrates).
- Experiences in biodiversity monitoring programs is advantageous
- Good English skills, additional skills in German and Italian are advantageous
- Good interpersonal and collaborative skills to integrate in a working group
- Efficient organization skills
We offer:
- Internship contract for 3 to 6 months (beginning March/April 2025)
- Possibility to include the gained data into a master thesis
- State-of-the-art technical facilities (soft
- and hardware, communication tools)
- Opportunity to work in a young interdisciplinary team
- Physically demanding fieldwork in astonishing landscapes
- Attractive living and working conditions (Great Place to Work©)
How to apply:
- Company: Eurac Research- Location: Bozen/Bolzano
- Contact person: Plunger Julia
Phone number: +39 0471 055 346