Dear MARMAM Subscribers,

Me and my colleagues are preparing a report on the situation of early career marine environmentalists. We want to understand the nature and extent of the hardships faced by these starting in our field, with a special focus on time and monetary investment in work and education. Marine mammalogy is one of the fields with many "work opportunities" abusing current legal regulations, thus it is extremely important to document this situation. The aim of the report, which we will make publicly available, is to show clearly the most burning issues and help to solve them.

We hope to shed some light on the various forms of abuse experienced by young marine professionals, but all stories are valid, and we also ask people who have never faced any hardships to share their experiences.

We are mostly interested in the experiences of current students, PhD candidates and those who graduated within the last 5 years. There is no deadline, though we hope to close the questionnaire at the beginning of May 2020.

Link to survey: https://forms.gle/TC6ruUc8E82vut3p8

Thank you for your time and honesty,

Anna N Osiecka