{"id":45151,"date":"2022-02-09T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=45151"},"modified":"2022-02-09T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:39:09","slug":"internship-cascadia-research-olympia-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/internship-cascadia-research-olympia-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship: Cascadia Research (Olympia, WA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><strong>For more information, please follow this link:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cascadiaresearch.org\/about\/interns\">https:\/\/www.cascadiaresearch.org\/about\/interns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Salary-<\/strong> Unpaid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intern and Volunteer\u00a0Responsibilities <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are seeking interns to help with our U.S. west coast projects and our Hawai\u2018i research, although both internships are office-based positions in Olympia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>US West Coast Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interns\u00a0most often assist staff on our long-term photo-ID studies baleen whales (e.g., humpback, blue, and gray whales) off the US West Coast and the inside waters of Washington state. In this capacity, interns will be expected to spend a large portion of their time comparing photographs to our existing catalogs, and may additionally be involved in digital image processing, data entry, and tasks related to historical catalog maintenance.<\/p>\n<div><a id=\"Required and Desired Qualifications\" name=\"Required and Desired Qualifications\"><\/a><strong>Required and Desired Qualifications for Interns and Volunteers<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The following is required for consideration for a volunteer or internship position:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"rteindent1\">\n<li>The ability to commit to an <strong>unpaid position<\/strong> for a minimum of 20 hours per week for a three-month time period (although we do favor candidates who can commit to 35-40 hours per week)<\/li>\n<li>A minimum of junior standing at a college or university and some background course work in general biology<\/li>\n<li>The ability to work well with others or independently, and with various distractions going on around them<\/li>\n<li>Strong communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Focus and attention to detail\u00a0in an environment with various distractions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following is desired (but not required) of prospective interns:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"rteindent1\">\n<li>An interest in the study of marine mammals<\/li>\n<li>Some experience with independent research<\/li>\n<li>Basic computer literacy and experience using Microsoft Office products (MS Access, Excel, and Word)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9433,"featured_media":34096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18],"tags":[4,36,141,13,131,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45151"}],"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\/9433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45152,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45151\/revisions\/45152"}],"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=45151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}