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APPLY NOW   Public Land Name: Wind Cave National Park Position Title: Field Paleontologist / Preparator / Curator Agency: NPS Position Type: GeoCorps Position ID Number: 2015058 Location: Hot Springs, SD Accepting Applications? # of current Applicants: 0 Position Description: The GeoCorps participant will assist the park Physical Scientist with the ongoing paleontological site inventory program; documenting new White River sites through photography and on-site data collection; and preparing, cataloging, and curating all significant specimens collected during cyclic fossil surveys of new as well as known sites being revisited. They will participate in two paleo field camps, one excavating a Hyracodon from a White River site and the other excavating an Ice Age carnivore den site in a cave. They will then help catalog the significant specimens collected during those camps. This position is offered through the Geological Society of America's GeoCorps America Program in partnership with the National Park Service’s Geoscientists-in-the-Parks Program. If you have questions about the application and selection process, please contact GSA's GeoCorps managers.  If you have questions about any aspect of the position — description, qualifications, housing, dates — please direct them to the contact(s) listed in the project description. Remember, application materials can only be submitted online. The project contact(s) will not accept application materials sent to them via e-mail, mail, fax, etc. See the full program details at the GeoCorps homepage.