Internship
Opportunities

Kindly note that an internship placement depends on finding a match between your interests and a suitable research project mentored by 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.

• Ecosystem Dynamics in Natural and Planted Forests in Agua Salud
• 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 Evolution of Longevity in Heliconius Butterflies
• The Intersection Between Cell Fate Decisions and Phenotypic Diversification in a Rapidly Radiating Butterfly Lineage
• Mycorrhizal associations as a mechanism of tropical tree resource specialization
• Environmental disturbance and its effect on the immune competence of an insect: respirometry
• Drying Effects on Root
• Exaggerated morphology, metabolism and behavior of the flag-legged bug (Anisoscelis alipes)