Internship
Opportunities

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.

• Death from Above: Microbial communities & disease pressure from forest floor to canopy
• Ecometabolomics, environmental gradients and the growth-defense trade-off in tropical trees
• Watershed resilience: student and teacher-led exploration of land use change and stream health
• Hot Gas from the Deep: Understanding how soil warming and seasonal rainfall transitions affect carbon dioxide and methane emissions from deep soils in a tropical forest.
• Using zooarchaeological and geochemical evidence to investigate ancient human impacts to Panamanian ecology
• Do leaf endophytes influence plant heat stress response?
• Exploring the potential for automated species identification of tropical plants from hyperspectral and 3D scanning data
• Characterizing the climate sensitivity of tropical tree woody growth
• Starch-grain reference collection
• Spider Communication in a Variable World
• Mating systems and reproductive behaviour of marine crabs (Decapoda: Anomura & Brachyura)
• The effect of climate change on butterfly coloration
• Sorting the smooth from the grooved: Documenting taxonomic and functional diversity of tropical marine invertebrates
• Understanding how mangroves capture carbon
• Thermal performance and related stress responses to salinity and temperature extremes in Pocillopora spp. from the Panamanian Tropical Eastern Pacific
• Acacia ant mutualism: co-evolution of behavioral and anatomical traits
• Evaluating microbial-driven internal decay of living trees over time and space, and implications for tree mortality and forest dynamics
• 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
• 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
• Smart Reforestation Forest Restoration Intern
• Phenotypic Plasticity, Evolution, and the Response of Tropical Lizards to a Rapidly Warming World
• Quantifying landscape-level variation in forest structure and dynamics with mobile laser scanning and drone photogrammetry
• 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