Herbarium Assistant Curator - Botanical Collections
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Job summary
Eastern Kentucky University on the Richmond Campus seeks an Assistant Curator to support mounting, digitizing, sorting and preparing duplicates for exchange, and to assist with processing exchanged specimens and filing herbarium records. As a student position, you will gain hands-on experience working with curated specimens and learn the workflows necessary to maintain and expand the herbarium collection.
The team currently includes a single curator and a part-time graduate student.
Qualifications
- Must be enrolled full time.
Responsibilities
- Assist mounting, digitizing, sorting and preparing duplicates for exchange.
- Process exchanged specimens and file herbarium specimens.
Job description
Eastern Kentucky University on the Richmond Campus seeks an Assistant Curator to support mounting, digitizing, sorting and preparing duplicates for exchange, and to assist with processing exchanged specimens and filing herbarium records. As a student position, you will gain hands-on experience working with curated specimens and learn the workflows necessary to maintain and expand the herbarium collection.
The team currently includes a single curator and a part-time graduate student.
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