Volunteers are required to assist PhD students from Deakin University, Victoria, Australia on projects studying the foraging behaviours of Australian and New Zealand fur seals. Volunteers will gain experience in the capture and restraint of adult female, juvenile and pup Australian fur seals. Volunteers will also assist in gas anaesthesia, the attachment and removal of data loggers, the collection of blood and tissue samples and the remote chemical restraint of New Zealand fur seals for the purpose of attaching or removing data loggers. Fieldwork will be carries out on Kanowna Island, a remote island off the coast of WIlsons Promontory, Victoria. Life as well as work on the island can be physically demanding and as such volunteers should be relatively fit and healthy. Volunteers will need to provide their own transport to and from Tidal River, Wilsons Promontory; alternatively, carpooling may be able to be arranged with other volunteers travelling down. Accomodation is basic (camping in tents) but is provided, all food will also be provided. Volunteers will need to bring personal items such as clothes and sleeping bags. The length of field trips vary from 10 days to up to 20 days, trips will be carried out between the months of July and September of this year with the potential for positions to also be available for trips being carried out during the summer months. Please direct all correspondences (preferably via email) to: Before July 7th Andrew Hoskins PhD candidate Deakin University Email: ajhos@deakin.edu.au Mobile: 0403456738 Or after July 7th Dr John Arnould Senior lecturer Deakin University Email: jarnould@deakin.edu.au