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Subject: 	[BIOnews] Gray Whale Count - Paid Intern Opportunity
Date: 	Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:51:34 -0800
From: 	Alina Haas <haas at lifesci.ucsb.edu>
Reply-To: 	haas at lifesci.ucsb.edu
To: 	bionews at lifesci.ucsb.edu




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*PAID INTERN OPPORTUNITY*

*Gray Whales Count*, a research and education project of UCSB's Coal 
Oil Point Reserve + 
The American Cetacean Society-Channel Islands + Cascadia Research 
Collective, Olympia, WA + 
NEW THIS YEAR — Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of 
Oceanography, UCSD
is seeking six interns to train to be Supervisors, assisting the project 
coordinator operate the shore- based Gray Whales Count from Coal Oil 
Point: January 28 through May 11, 2008.

/Support for this opportunity was provided by UCSB's Coastal Fund./

*Please attend an information meeting in the Marine Science Research 
Building Auditorium on Thursday, January 10, 2008  7 to 9 PM*

If you have a keen interest in marine mammals and a passion for our 
environment, this is for you! All will be trained by Michael Smith, 
project coordinator, and current GWC Supervisors.

Interns are required to work a four-hour shift each of the fifteen weeks 
of the survey. They will be key members of the observation team locating 
and identifying marine mammals and recording data. We also record data 
on vessels, which may interact with the animals, and this year we will 
be coordinating our visual data with Scripps's acoustic data.

*— 60 hours with a stipend of $500 —*

Priority will be given to availability through the conclusion of Gray  
Whales Count: May 11, 2008. Hours are flexible, but must be scheduled.

This is the fourth year of this valuable research. The intent is to 
establish baseline data on the migration through the nearshore of the 
Santa Barbara Channel. The project has become urgent because there is 
a proposal to renew and to expand drilling from Platform Holly, offshore 
of Coal Oil Point. (See webpage _graywhalescount.org_ 
<http://www.graywhalescount.org/> for Project description) 

For additional information about the project and information about 
volunteering to be an Observer, please visit the 
webpage: _graywhalescount.org_ 
<http://www.graywhalescount.org/> Volunteer Observers sign up for 2-hour 
shifts. We encourage volunteer Observers to work a shift a week, but 
there is no commitment. It is an easy way to participate.

Please contact Michael Smith: _grays-n-blues at cox.net_ 
<mailto:grays-n-blues at cox.net>



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