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us or call (603) 431-0260.
Do you accept younger students?
Our internships are geared toward ages 18 and above, and
particularly college students. Younger students should contact us
separately about volunteer opportunities. A great place for you to
start is our touch tank, where we are looking for educators to assist on
shorter cruises during the summer! Click here for more
information:
http://www.blueoceansociety.org/tank/ttintern.htm.
Where do
interns live?
Interns are responsible for finding their own housing.
Summer sublets are usually available near the University of New
Hampshire, which is about 20 minutes from our office, and 20-45 minutes
from the whale watch boats. If you are accepted to the internship,
you can work with your fellow interns to find shared housing or look for
your own room/apartment. The University of New Hampshire's housing list
is a good place to start:
http://www.unhmub.com/housinglist/. (The closest towns to our office
are Portsmouth, Rye, Exeter, Hampton, New Castle, Newington, Dover,
Durham and Madbury, and student housing is most plentiful in Dover and
Durham). We'll help you however we can.
How can I earn extra income?
Since our area is popular with tourists in the summer,
many places hire people for summer jobs, so it's generally not too hard to
get a job in the area. Also, many of the boats we work with are
looking for part-time crew, so it's possible to work on a boat
part-time and intern part-time. We try to hire people early so that they
have time to wrap up housing and part-time jobs before they get here.
HOWEVER, we do expect the internship to be your first priority and expect
that you'll work your other job's schedule around the intern schedule. Since
full-time interns can gain the best experience here, qualified applicants
who can work 30+ hours per week and not get another job will receive priority.
Do you accept
international students?
We do accept international students, but you should keep
in mind that you will be responsible for providing your own transportation
(or carpooling) while you're here. Public transportation here is not
readily available, so if this is an issue, you may want to consider
internship opportunities in a larger city or in places where it is more
feasible to walk to work.
How much research will be done
during this internship?
If you choose to do
research as part of your focus, the bulk of your time will
be spent on whale watch boats (where you'll collect data for 1-3 hours at
a time, depending on whale and debris sightings) with additional time
spent in the office working on data entry and cataloging projects. All summer interns
will eventually learn how to collect data and enter data into a database
and be responsible for completing their own research project.
Fall
& winter interns will spend more time cataloging and entering
data.
There are many research opportunities available for
those motivated to put in the time. You have the option to complete a
special research project, which may involve collecting your own data or
using our data to answer a research question. We will assist you in
preparing abstracts to submit to marine mammal conferences if you wish
to present your project to the scientific community. |
