The Department of Interior- Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces nine
Academic Year 2016, paid internships in curation and collections management
offered through the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE).
These internships are located in BLM facilities and partner museums
throughout the country.

These internships are open to students currently enrolled in an academic
program in historic preservation or an allied field, or very recently
graduated (degree received August 2014 or later). * Application must be
made though the NCPE website *at
http://preservenet.cornell.edu/employ/ncpe.php. * Please visit this website
for all application and internship information.  Deadline to apply
is October 23, 2015. * Academic year internships typically begin in
January-February 2016.

Current BLM academic year curation internship offerings are:


2674. Interior Museum Program, Bureau of Land Management, National Historic
Oregon Trail: Working with curator, exhibit specialist, and archeologists,
assists with work on cataloguing artifacts, photography, condition
monitoring, conservation of artifacts, fabrication of conservation mounts
for storage and display needs, and updating associated records. Office,
workshop, and collection storage room environment. Located in Baker City,
OR (800 hours).
2675. Interior Museum Program, Bureau of Land Management, Billings Curation
Center: Assists the Billings Curation Center at the BLM Montana State
Office with processing 14 boxes (14 cubic ft.) of artifacts from six
different projects and law enforcement actions. The collections,
originating from more than 36 sites on BLM lands, are essential resources
in our efforts to understand the cultural history of Montana. The goal will
be to identify and inventory this collection, and also to re-package to
Center/DOI specifications, accession and produce a completed catalog.
Located in Billings, MT (600 hours).
2676. Interior Museum Program, Bureau of Land Management, Anasazi Heritage
Center: Assists the Bureau of Land Management-Anasazi Heritage Center
(BLM-AHC) Curation Program with backlog cataloging of archeological
collections and project documentation, focusing on cataloging and proper
storage of items from sites on BLM-Canyons of the Ancients National
Monument. Duties include collections inventory; cataloging; storage of
artifacts; data entry into the Interior Collections Management System
(ICMS); and organization of associated documentation. Other duties include
assisting staff with collections reviews for NAGPRA compliance tasks;
researcher access to the AHC collections; and participating in the AHC
Curation Program's Integrated Pest Management Program. Position may involve
moderate physical activity. Background in southwest archeology and/or
museum studies preferred; familiarity with Microsoft Office and Excel
required. Housing is provided. Located just outside Dolores, CO (1000
hours).
2677. Interior Museum Program, Bureau of Land Management, Utah State
Office: Assists the BLM Utah State Office (UTSO) cultural resources staff
with the management of collections currently in their care. Duties include
maintaining the collections facility according to curatorial standards for
preventative conservation (temperature, humidity and integrated pest
management) and security; processing collections in preparation for their
curation in a permanent facility; facilitating access to the collections as
required for consultations and/or repatriation to Native American
communities; and entering information into the Interior Collections
Management System (ICMS). Depending on intern interest, other duties may
involve working with a committee to assess the research and educational
potential of the collections to assist in identifying materials best suited
to different curation strategies; and/or working with staff to initiate
public education initiatives to reduce looting of archeological sites on
public lands. Background in southwest archeology and/or museum studies
preferred; familiarity with Microsoft Office and Excel required. Located in
Salt Lake City, UT (1000 hours).
2678. Interior Museum Program, Bureau of Land Management, Multi-Office,
University of Kansas: Assists in collections management duties in the
Vertebrate Paleontology Division of the University of Kansas Biodiversity
Institute, which holds thousands of fossils from DOI-administered lands,
including from Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. The collection
includes over 160,000 specimens compiled by one of the oldest university
museums in the country, including original material collected more than 30
years ago from Natural Trap Cave in Wyoming; additional material needing
curation will be entering the collection over the next several years as
part of an exciting BLM-supported research initiative. Duties include
learning to use SPECIFY, a collections management database system developed
by the museum partly under grants from the National Science Foundation,
freely available to public museums and used worldwide. Located in Lawrence,
KS (800 hours).
2679. Interior Museum Program, Bureau of Land Management, California State
Office, Autry National Center: Assists the BLM-California State Office work
curating archaeological collections retrieved from BLM lands and now
located at the Autry National Center in its Southwest Museum Collection.
Work involves assisting museum personnel with curating, research and
reorganization of archeological collections excavated by the Southwest
Museum-led Little Lake Expedition (1947-1951) and others. Duties may
include, but are not limited to, research in the Braun Research Library
identifying objects and sites; repackaging of artifacts; and creating Excel
spreadsheets and Word documents to assist the staff archaeologist and
archaeological collections team organize artifacts and data. Experience in
archeology and California Native Prehistory and familiarity with Microsoft
Word, Excel and the MIMSY database system preferred. Located in Los
Angeles, CA (480 hours).
2680. Interior Museum Program, Bureau of Land Management, Nevada State
Office, Las Vegas Museum of Natural History: Assists with backlog
cataloging of archeological collections and project documentation, focusing
on cataloging and proper storage of BLM museum collections. Duties include
collections inventory; cataloging; storage of artifacts; data entry into
the museum's collections management cataloguing system; and organization of
associated documentation. Other duties include assisting staff with the
curation of the collection for exhibit, researcher access to the BLM
collections; and participating in the Las Vegas Natural History Museum's
Integrated Pest Management Program. Position may involve moderate physical
activity. Background in southwest archeology, anthropology and/or museum
studies preferred; familiarity with Microsoft Office and Excel required.
Located in Las Vegas, NV. (1000 hours).
2681. Interior Museum Program, Bureau of Land Management Paleontology,
University of Washington Burke Museum: Assists with curation of vertebrate
fossils in the Museum's collection. Duties include both the hands-on work
of sorting, identifying, imaging, and cataloging specimens, and the
archival work to update the museum's online digital catalogue. The Museum
has a longstanding relationship with the Dept. of the Interior and its
bureaus, with a significant percentage of their 62,000 vertebrate fossils
having come from Federal lands. Over 1,000 localities are from DOI lands,
including Montana (338), Wyoming (514), Idaho (15), Oregon (60), Washington
(31), Arizona (34), and others. Recent research activities of museum staff
include multi-year efforts in Montana and Arizona. Many of the fossils
collected include "microverts," numbering in the thousands of specimens.
The curation of fossils and making the information and images of specimens
available on the web will enhance researcher and public access to the
information contained in the collection. Located in Seattle, WA (400 hours,
½ time, 20 weeks).
2682. Interior Museum Program, Bureau of Land Management Paleontology, New
Jersey State Museum: Works on a wide variety of Museum activities,
including opportunities to be involved in Museum education programs. Duties
include processing and documenting newly-acquired fossils for addition to
the Museum's extensive collections, involving cleaning, sorting and
curating specimens into the larger collections. The New Jersey State Museum
Bureau of Natural History holds a diverse collection of about 250,000
specimens. It displays an early reconstruction of the first nearly-complete
dinosaur ever excavated, as well as about 300 type specimens of other
fossils. Field crews currently are actively collecting fossils from the
Powder River Basin area of Wyoming and Montana. Summer crews from the
museum conduct reconnaissance for new fossils as well as collecting larger
specimens located in past years. In addition, the museum strives to provide
unique field experiences to young people from inner-city areas to expose
them to science and to places they might not otherwise be introduced to.
The museum is also currently working with the BLM to finalize a museum
collection agreement. Located in Trenton, NJ. (800 hours).

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