Undergraduate Resources

Career Information

Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, Careers in Ecology series 2017-2020 (excellent series of articles describing a broad range of careers in ecology): https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1540-9309.Exploring-Ecological-Careers

UTK Career Services: https://career.utk.edu/

UTK Handshake, service to connect students to internships/careers: https://career.utk.edu/handshake/

EEB Resources

Undergrad-Graduate student mentoring program: email eebmentoring@gmail.com for more info

Outreach/service opportunities: https://eeb.utk.edu/outreach/

Naturalist Club: email eeb@utk.edu for more info

Job/Internships Sites

Local/Regional

Conservation Fisheries, non-profit (blog post where they list positions): https://www.conservationfisheries.org/blog

Great Smoky Mountain National Park: https://www.nps.gov/grsm/getinvolved/workwithus.htm

Indeed Internships TN: https://www.indeed.com/q-Science-Internship-l-Tennessee-

jobs.html?vjk=a8baa7882235de09

ORNL post-bacc program: https://orise.orau.gov/internships-fellowships/index.html

Other ORNL Undergraduate opportunities: https://education.ornl.gov/undergraduate/

Panther Creek Forestry Consultants: https://panthercreekforestry.com/careers

TN Dept. of Environment & Conservation: https://www.tn.gov/environment/about-tdec/employment-and-internships.html

TVA opportunities: https://www.tva.gov/Careers/Student-Opportunities

TN Wildlife Resource Agency (TWRA; provides many positions every summer for students): https://www.tn.gov/twra/employment.html

U.S. Forest Service Internships (local and national): https://www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/recruitment_saf/studentinternships.shtml

Zoo Knoxville: https://www.zooknoxville.org/internships/

National (many have TN opp’s too)

AmeriCorps: https://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps/join-americorps

Bureau of Land Management: https://www.blm.gov/get-involved/internships

Conservation jobs: https://www.conservationjobboard.com/

ECOLOG listserv for Ecological Society of America (create web account with ESA to subscribe to listserv)

Ecological Society of America ecology: https://www.esacareercenter.org/

Ecological Society of America ecophys jobs site (broad range of ecological academic positions from undergrads to technician to grad and beyond): http://ecophys-jobs.org/undergrad.html

Evolution Directory (see jobs link at bottom of the page): https://evol.mcmaster.ca/evoldir.html

IdigTRIO – Biology Careers: https://www.idigtrio.org/

Indeed Ecology & Evolution: https://www.indeed.com/q-Ecology-Evolutionary-Biology-jobs.html

Indeed Mathematical Biology: https://www.indeed.com/q-Mathematical-Biology-jobs.html

Marine Biology institutes & organizations (list of all by region; jobs and internships posted on their individual websites): https://marinebio.org/creatures/marine-biology-laboratories-institutes-graduate-programs/

National Park Service, internships and jobs (with links to other internship opportunities): https://www.nps.gov/subjects/youthprograms/jobs-and-internships.htm

Texas A & M jobs board: https://wfscjobs.tamu.edu/job-board/

The Nature Conservancy Globe internship program: https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/who-we-are/how-we-work/youth-engagement/globe-programs/

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: https://www.fws.gov/humancapital/

U.S. Forest Service: https://www.fs.usda.gov/working-with-us/jobs

USGS (U.S. Geological Survey): https://www.usgs.gov/about/organization/science-support/human-capital/employment-and-information-center

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): https://www.usda.gov/our-agency/careers/usda-pathways-programs

USDA (Natural Resources Conservation Service): https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/careers/student/?cid=stelprdb1083252

USA Jobs (for all federal positions): https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/students/