Paleontological Research Institution, its Museum of the Earth, and the Cayuga Nature Center need your help!

Our volunteers are integral to our overall organization. Become part of our diverse and dynamic group and expand your knowledge about paleontology, geology, evolution, sustainability, environment, climate change, and nature issues. Your volunteer efforts will help others discover the exciting world which they inhabit.

Where else can you:

• Help a Museum visitor identify a found fossil or a Nature Center visitor discover a leaf or butterfly

• Teach a school group about the Northern right whale, mastodons, or New York’s native animals

• Curate specimens from PRI’s world-renowned fossil collection

• Help care for the Nature Center’s live animal collection

• Assist with special events and other marketing needs

• Prepare a fossil specimen in the Museum’s Prep Lab

• Assist in PRI’s library and possibly contribute to one of our publications

• Participate in building an exhibit

• Be a trail or butterfly guide

• Help with youth camps throughout the year

• Or just be part of the many and varied happenings here.

Share your passion for the natural world!

If you are interested in volunteering at the Paleontological Research Institution, its Museum of the Earth, or Cayuga Nature Center, please reach out directly to our Volunteer Coordinator, Rob Katz [email protected].

Please Note: The Paleontological Research Institution will require all volunteers serving Palmer Hall, the Museum of the Earth, and Cayuga Nature Center to show proof of having received a department of health approved COVID vaccine. This requirement is being instituted to protect the safety and health of PRI employees, and other persons that provide services to this operation and is designed to support the public health objectives of our community, provided this hiring requirement complies with NY State and Federal guidelines and directives.