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After students finish their academic year of course work, they gain additional experience by completing a minimum of ten weeks as an intern with a museum, aquarium, university, zoological or botanical institution, magazine, newspaper, or graphic arts studio. This gives program graduates an important edge over science illustrators who lack such experience and a successful internship, documented by a letter from a pleased field supervisor, is important to a student's early career.

These internships provide students with the opportunity to practice and refine the illustration techniques they have learned in class and to develop the kind of independence, perseverance, and interpersonal skills needed to complete substantial projects in a real-world setting. Internships provide a crucial dimension of the program, for they make possible the firsthand experience of fast-paced urban professional life that a serious student of science illustration needs in balance with the careful attention to craft emphasized in the program.

Past graduates have served as science illustrator interns at the following institutions:

Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Menlo Park, CA Alaska Sea Life Center, Seward, AK Alexander Lindsay Junior Museum, Walnut Creek, CA American Museum of Natural History, NY American Precision Museum, Windsor, VT American Scientist magazine, NC Annual Reviews of Science, Palo Alto, CA Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum, AZ Archipelago Productions, Monterey, CA Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, CA Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, Bermuda BioSystems Books, Santa Cruz, CA Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Brooklyn, NY Bryce Canyon National Park, UT Bureau of Land Management, Hollister, CA California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA California Native Plant Society, Sacramento, CA California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburg, PA Center for American Archaeology, Kampsville, IL Centre ValBio, Ranomafana National Park, Madgascar Colorado National Monument Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY Denver Zoo, Denver, CO Denver Botanic Garden, Denver, CO District Archaeology Museum, Archaeological dig in Larnaca, Cyprus Disney Interactive, Anaheim, CA Draper Museum of Natural History, Cody, WY ELOS Communication, Boulder, CO Exploratorium magazine, San Francisco, CA Filoli Gardens, Woodside, CA Field Museum, Chicago, IL Greatwave, Scotts Valley, CA Harcourt College Publishing Company Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA Huntington Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA Jepson Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley, CA Johns Hopkins Facial Prosthetics Clinic, Baltimore, MD Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, UC Santa Cruz Koch Studios, Felton, CA Krames, Patient Education, San Bruno, CA LAC+USC Medical Center, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Los Angeles, CA Life Lab, UC Santa Cruz Livermore Parks Department, CA Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, CA LucasArts Entertainment Company, San Rafael, CA Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, MA Marine World/Africa USA, Vallejo. CA Martin Ryan Marine Science Institute, University College, Galway, Ireland Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), CA Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ National Gardening Association, VT National Park Service, Channel Islands National Park National Geographic magazine, Washington, DC National Zoo, Washington, DC Natural History magazine, NY Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, CA New Zealand Marine Studies Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand Naturkkundemuseum, Berlin, Germany Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Oregon Zoo, Portland, OR Organic Gardening magazine, Rodale Press, NY Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology, Orkney, Scotland Perry Museum Services, Santa Cruz, CA Pierwatch, Santa Cruz, CA Presidio Trust, San Francisco, CA Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, Australia Ranger Rick magazine, VA Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, UK Rio Grande Biological Park, Albuquerque, NM San Diego Supercomputer Center, CA Santa Cruz Sentinel , Santa Cruz, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA San Juan Bautista Mission Museum, CA Santa Rosa Press Democrat , CA Science World magazine Scientific American magazine, NY Scientific American’s Exploration magazine, NY Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA Sequoia National Park, CA Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Annapolis, MD Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia Southeast Aquatic Research Institute, GA Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA SuperTutor, Sunnyvale, CA The Salinas Californian, Salinas, CA Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, Boston, MA University of Illinois, Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology University of Puerto Rico U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Chesapeake Bay Field Office, Annapolis, MD Visual Art Services, Stanford University, Stanford, CA West Office Exhibits, San Francisco, CA Wild Earth magazine, VT Wilderness Graphics, Tallahassee, FL Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA Wrangell Mountains Center, Glenallen, AK Wrangell-ST. Elias National Preserve in Kennecott National Historic Landmark, AK. Yellowstone Association for Natural Science, History and Education, Inc. Yosemite National Park, CA