There is an organization called the Cascadia Research Collective. This is a group of researchers who are focused on whales in the Pacific Basin. Part of their work involves a partnership with the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. The Aquarium has a partnership with a boat company called Harbor Breeze, and sends people out on the whale watch boats to collect cetacean data. This data is first processed in-house and then sent to Cascadia, for the ultimate purpose of whale conservation.
I applied to intern with this project from Mario's, the chain pizza place at the base of our mountain in Trinidad, where we would sometimes go for Internet. When I got home from Trinidad, there was a voicemail from the Aquarium waiting on my cell phone.
Whales, conservation research, boats, photographs & data, Aquarium, and California? I'm in!
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