{"id":42824,"date":"2021-08-13T17:44:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T00:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=42824"},"modified":"2021-08-13T17:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T00:44:14","slug":"internship-coasst-internship-uw-safs-coastal-observation-and-seabird-survey-team-seattle-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/internship-coasst-internship-uw-safs-coastal-observation-and-seabird-survey-team-seattle-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship: COASST Internship, UW SAFS Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (Seattle, WA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>See full details at <a href=\"https:\/\/environment.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/COASST-Intern-2021.pdf\">https:\/\/environment.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/COASST-Intern-2021.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), a citizen science program based at the University of Washington\u2019s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, is looking for 2-3 undergraduate students to assist with data entry and management; volunteer recruitment, training, and communication; and program outreach.<\/p>\n<p>COASST works with approximately 800 citizen science volunteers, using their data on beach-cast carcasses of marine birds and marine debris to establish the baseline, or &#8216;normal&#8217; pattern of deposition on North Pacific beaches. Baselines of seabird mortality are crucial for assessing the impacts of oil spills, fisheries, and climate change in the marine environment, while marine debris data speaks directly to the source and transport pathways of debris, as well as to the potential harm to people, wildlife, and local coastal ecosystems<\/p>\n<p>COASST interns work as a team directly with staff and gain valuable, hands-on experience with citizen science programs and the complexities of volunteer-collected data. These positions will involve a combination of office-based tasks, occasionally requiring travel to coastal data collection sites.<\/p>\n<p>Internship tasks may include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Recruiting, tracking, and communicating with citizen science participants<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Managing incoming data and photos from beach surveys<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Entering beached bird, marine debris, and social science data<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Preparing materials for beached bird and marine debris trainings<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Representing COASST at outreach events<\/p>\n<p>Opportunities are available in Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer quarters, and the internship can count towards 2-3 college credits meeting departmental requirements. Each credit requires 4 hours of work per week.<\/p>\n<p>Interested students should send an email with Citizen Science Internship in the subject line to: Anna Vallery (Participant Coordinator) at <a href=\"mailto:coasst@uw.edu\">coasst@uw.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please attach your resume and include a statement of interest that contains:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 applicable background in marine biology (coursework, job\/intern experience)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 experience with data, statistics packages, databases (excel, R, catalyst etc.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 experience with volunteers, volunteer programs, and\/or other research labs<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 days and times of availability between 9am and 5pm for the upcoming quarter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3815,"featured_media":34096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,131,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42825,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42824\/revisions\/42825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}