Internship
Opportunities
Start here to learn about project opportunities for internships at STRI!
Kindly note that an internship placement depends on finding a match between your interests and a suitable research project mentored by a scientist at STRI. After you have reviewed the project opportunities, you may leave your contact information by filling out the form at the end of the page. However, to apply for any of our programs, you will need to follow the guidelines of each program to complete an application to the Smithsonian Institution Online Academic Appointments system (SOLAA). Only complete applications submitted through SOLAA by the deadline stablished on the program description will be considered.
Click on each project title to learn more about the project summary and objectives.
- Invertebrate-derived DNA as a valuable tool to improve species detectability in imperilled Neotropical amphibian communities
- Curation of STRI's legacy archaeology collections
- Reconstructing reef shark communities in the Tropical Eastern Pacific over millennia
- Testing different feeding strategies to increase corals resilience to thermal stress
- Effects of upwelling events on herbivory and predation on Pacific coral-reefs
- Does pathogen pressure shape the metabolome of tropical forest seedlings across the tropical rainfall gradient?
- Sneaking sweet treats:How do neotropical birds evolve to drink nectar?
- Resilience of Tropical East Pacific Reef Corals
- Feeding Trait Plasticity and Adaptation in Reef Fishes Across the Isthmus of Panama
- Diversity and distribution of sharks and rays in the Tropical Eastern Pacific using environmental DNA
- Species coexistence, commonness, and rarity in high-diversity ecosystems
- Lichenivory and the habits of bark-living Lepidoptera
- Mate choice decisions of Heliconius numata and the maintenance of colour pattern variation
- Variation in the strength of coral-symbiont associations
- Vegetation Dynamics Intern: Understanding nutrient limitation in Secondary Forest
- Smart Reforestation Forest Restoration Intern
- Phenotypic Plasticity, Evolution, and the Response of Tropical Lizards to a Rapidly Warming World
- Patterns, causes, and consequences of variation in liana infestation in tropical forests in Panama
- Documenting Diversity in the Panama Canal
- Quantifying landscape-level variation in forest structure and dynamics with mobile laser scanning and drone photogrammetry
- Trophic ecology of marine fishes invading Lake Gatun, Panama
- Effects of environmental variation on coral-reef fish
- When continents join: Insights from the great american schism on the general basis of marine adaptation and resilience
- The Intersection Between Cell Fate Decisions and Phenotypic Diversification in a Rapidly Radiating Butterfly Lineage