Content Development for Oregon Coast Aquarium -- Environmental Interpretation and Marketing
Location: Newport, OR
Undergraduate student will work with the Aquarium’s Education and Marketing departments to develop content for their volunteer training, website, and social media in support of their new Connected Coasts and Jellies galleries opening in Fall 2024. The Aquarium is remodeling all of its indoor galleries, which will include changing the theme of two galleries to include tropical animals and interpreting the connection of all Pacific ecosystems via currents. The intern will conduct research, compile information, and write content in templates for each medium. Additionally, as time allows, the intern may be involved in evaluating the content with our guests, which would include approaching guests and asking them to complete surveys. Strong writing skills needed.
Coastal Bird Stewardship and Outreach
-- Community Engagement and Environmental Education
Location: Newport to Florence, OR
The intern will assist with the Coastal Bird Stewardship Outreach Project along the central coast (Newport to Florence) by cultivating visitor stewardship of coastal seabirds and shorebirds, e.g., marbled murrelet. This involves increasing visitor understanding of their role in sensitive seabird and shorebird conservation at Siuslaw National Forest and Oregon State Park areas on the Oregon Central Coast. Activities include developing, producing and delivering interpretive messages at recreation areas (e.g., campground programs, nature hikes) via social media, and collaborating with state and federal interpretive and field rangers to develop and deliver program content.
Cutting-edge Environmental Monitoring: Scientific Technology Development and Testing
Location: Newport, OR
This internship offers the opportunity to explore how academia and industry can work together to advance the understanding and monitoring of the ocean. Specifically, the intern will work with Sea-Bird Scientific (a leader in oceanographic instrumentation) on a project related to the design, testing, calibration, and/or validation of bio-optical oceanographic instrumentation used to sense ocean biogeochemical variables such as surface ocean light fields (irradiance, radiance), chlorophyll fluorescence, oxygen, pH, nutrients, particulate organic carbon, and/or dissolved organic matter. The intern will focus on one or more of the following activities: deployment and maintenance of instruments in nearby coastal waters, data collection and analysis, laboratory validation of instruments using water samples or reference standards, and/or implementation of oceanographic instrumentation project kits for educational workshops.
Redfish Rocks Marine Reserve Interpretation and Science Communication
-- Marine Research and Conservation
Location: Port Orford, OR
The Marine Reserve Interpretation Intern is a combination of field scientist, science communicator, and marine reserve interpreter. The intern will communicate the story of the Redfish Rocks Marine Reserve, and the importance of collaboration with the fishing community to visitors to Port Orford. In 2024, the Redfish Rocks Team will acknowledge more than a decade of marine stewardship at the Redfish Rocks Marine Reserve and Marine Protected Area through its outreach and education program, and the intern will work with the Redfish Rocks Team to support these efforts. The intern will be responsible for an independent research project, to be developed with the mentor, will collect data, compile these data into a report, and present results at the annual State of the Coast Conference. The intern will also recruit volunteers for community science programs with partner agencies such as Coast Watch, COASST, and the Marine Mammal Stranding Network, and will be part of the team sampling juvenile fishes as part of an OSU/ODFW long term monitoring collaboration at Redfish Rocks. There will be additional opportunities to participate in field research and monitoring activities. Scuba diving experience is preferred.
Environmental Interpretation at Yakona Nature Preserve & Learning Center
Location: Newport and Cascade Head, OR
The Yakona Nature Preserve & Learning Center is a living laboratory on a peninsula in Yaquina Bay that serves to protect, preserve, and enhance the natural ecosystems and cultural history of Oregon’s central coast spruce habitat and its wildlife through the arts, education, and stewardship. The intern will research and create professional brochure(s) featuring Yakona's animals, plants, etc., making them child-friendly while appealing to families and other community members. Intern will create a minimum of 3 different brochures. One of these brochures will compare two locations on the coast: Yakona Nature Preserve & Learning Center and the Cascade Head Biosphere. To accomplish this the student will travel for at least one overnight trip to Cascade Head to tour the area and refine content.
Climate Change from Forests to Sea at Cascade Head
Location: Newport and Cascade Head, OR
Working in the internationally recognized UNESCO Biosphere Reserve at Cascade Head, the intern will work with a team studying climate-change impacts from forest to sea in this amazing natural environment. The intern will engage in a variety of activities including learning about ongoing monitoring of change, interpreting measurements of changing temperatures and ecosystem response, and finding ways to engage the public, especially youth. The intern will work together with the intern from the Yakona Nature Preserve & Learning Center to compare these two locations on the coast within the larger central Oregon coast and ocean ecosystem.
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