Trails Monitoring Intern (Position Code: 13664)
http://www.thesca.org/node/171560
Your responsibilities will include: conduct trails monitoring along more
than 90 miles of backcountry trails; use established monitoring protocols
to measure such resource components as tread depth, erosion, vegetative
cover, slope, sensitive resources, human-caused impacts, etc.; collect data
to allow park management to establish best management practices in regards
to the heavily used trail system. You will also conduct biological
assessments and water-quality assessments of trailside streams.
The Mammoth
Cave International Center for Science and Learning is
partnership between Mammoth Cave National Park and Western Kentucky
University. We are a member of a national network of research learning
centers based within the National Parks.
Research Learning Centers
- Facilitate use of parks for scientific
inquiry.
- Support science-informed decision making.
- Communicate relevance of and provide access to
research
knowledge.
- Promote resource stewardship through
partnerships.
website: www.wku.edu/mcicsl
Mammoth Cave National Park
P.O. Box 7
Mammoth Cave, KY 42259
(270) 758-2422
shannon_trimboli@contractor.nps.gov
Geography/Geology Dept
Western Kentucky University
1 Big Red Way - EST 438
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1066
shannon.trimboli@wku.edu