Biology Opportunities

The Coe Wilderness Field Station Scholarship provides full tuition, travel expenses, and a $2500 stipend to two Carleton students each year to take a course at the field station. This scholarship is open to any Carleton student with an interest in taking a course at the Coe Wilderness Field Station during the summer of 2025. Applicants do not need previous wilderness experience to be eligible. First year students are particularly encouraged to apply.

The MDI Biological Laboratory’s REU program aims to engage students in scientific explorations in the Laboratory’s research focus area, Comparative Regenerative Biology and Aging, while providing them with opportunities to build skills important to successful careers in the biological sciences. Research opportunities focus on uncovering basic cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying regenerative and aging processes in various animal model systems, including zebrafish, African turquoise killifish, nematodes and axolotls. Students will have access to state-of-the-art research laboratories and core facilities, support staff, and our inspirational coastal setting. Students will join in MDI Biological Laboratory’s active scientific community, which includes other undergraduate research fellows, visiting scientists, graduate students, and postdocs as well as research assistants.

The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the rest of the world’s oceans. Warming water in the Gulf of Maine is altering ecosystems and impacting fisheries. Global climate change affects oceanographic patterns, marine populations, and human communities. Climate Change: The Gulf of Maine is a collaborative program exploring the oceanographic science behind the rapidly warming ocean basin, how changes impact marine populations, and how local coastal communities are responding to climate change.

Oceans may contain more than one million species, however, less than one-quarter of these have been identified. Marine biodiversity has the potential to transform medicine, industry, environmental remediation, and energy production, but is threatened by pollution, habitat destruction, over-fishing, and climate change. Studying organisms beyond national boundaries is crucial to understanding and conserving our ocean ecosystems.

The Coe Wilderness Field Station Scholarship provides full tuition, travel expenses, and a $2500 stipend to two Carleton students each year to take a summer course at the field station.

Round River Conservation Studies is piloting a new off-campus studies program in the Madrean Archipelago in Southern Arizona. This Spring Semester “abroad” program will focus on transborder wildlife movement, desert springs, and elevational plant growth patterns.

The program is accepting applications on a rolling basis, so early application is highly encouraged. Find more information here.

This internship opportunity gives post-graduate students the opportunity to work in a sanctuary aiming to end the big cat and bear trade. This program is now accepting applications due April 1, 2020. Click here for more information.

Food, Forests and Resilience: Systems of Socio-Ecological Sustainability in Oaxaca, Mexico is a new off-campus studies program being offered by Biology professor, Dan Hernández during winter break of 2020

OTS offers fall and spring semester programs at their field station in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Students will have a unique opportunity to participate in “boots on the ground research” with field-based, experiential learning. The deadline to apply for spring is November 1st, 2019 and for fall is April 1st, 2020. For more information and application instructions please visit their website at tropicalstudies.org.

Apply for a Fall semester program at the Ecosystems Center in Woods Hole, MA. Students will spend 20 hours/week getting hands-on experience working in the field and the lab in core courses on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

For more information on the program and application, email SES@mbl.edu.