Winter 2025: New Internships!

Santa Cruz County Mosquito & Vector Control

Contact: Amanda Poulsen, pesthelp@santacruzcountyca.gov

Winter 2025: Sponsoring two ENVS 84 interns

Email Amanda if you are interested by Friday, December 13 2024. Virtual interviews will be held on Monday, December 16th.

Description: Santa Cruz County Mosquito & Vector Control is committed to protecting public health from vectors of human disease. Vectors are pests capable of transmitting disease, causing harm, or creating a nuisance. Our services, consultation, and education enable residents to resolve problems and protect themselves with a better understanding of vector biology, behavior, and vector-borne diseases. 

Intern Responsibilities: Intern will assist primarily with field work, and minimal lab work, involving county-wide tick collections for Lyme Disease surveillance. Intern will spend most of their time "Tick Flagging" which involves hiking trails within Santa Cruz County while running a flannel flag over vegetation and collecting ticks that attach themselves. The collected ticks will then be sorted and processed in the lab and data recorded in VectorSurv by the intern. This is an unpaid internship. 

Location: 640 Capitola Rd. Santa Cruz, CA 95062

Requirements: Must have valid Driver's License and your own vehicle to transport you to tick flag sites around Santa Cruz County.