Dear Marmammers - The Namibian Dolphin Project is a research and conservation organization run by several independent scientists based in southern Africa. We are running research internships in 2017 and would like to invite students enrolled in marine biology, ecology and zoology degrees to attend. These 4 week long internships will take place between 25 June to 23 July 2017 and 30 July to 27 August 2017 in Walvis Bay, Namibia. Interns will join an active research programme during an intensive period of field work aiming to tackle a number of research questions including long-term population monitoring (photo ID and static acoustic monitoring), behavioural acoustics of bottlenose dolphins (linking sounds to behaviours), behavioural and acoustic responses to anthropogenic activities and response to strandeded cetaceans (refloatation/data colleciton). Our focal study species are Heaviside's dolphin, a small population of common bottlenose dolphins and humpback whales with additional data collection on right whales, sunfish (Mola mola), African Penguins and sea turtles and of course any other cetaceans that visit. Internships are research focused with an emphasis on learning (and using) field skills used in cetacean research such as photo-identification, acoustic and behavioural data collection, as well as data management and team work. Interns will work closely with the project leaders Dr Tess Gridley and Dr Simon Elwen. We are amenable to students using data collected during internships for student projects. A fee of 2100 USD is associated with this internship, this covers all research training, field work, accommodation and food for each 4 week field period. Please note we have a limited number of spaces available (max 5 interns per 4 week field period). If you are interested in joining our research team during one of these periods please send a letter of motivation and your CV in an email with the subject Research Internship 2017_Namibia to nam.dolphin.edu@gmail.com. More information can be found on the Namibian Dolphin Project and our umbrella organisation Sea Search by following these links ( www.namibiandolphinproject.com www.seasearch.co.za) Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions regarding this training opportunity. Kind regards Namibian Dolphin Project Team www.namibiandolphinproject.com namibiandolphinproject.blogspot.com