Sea Search Research and Conservation is offering the opportunity for interested students and young researchers to join our projects to get real work experience working with an active research group on our projects in Southern Africa. The internships are research focused with an emphasis on learning (and using) field skills used in cetacean research such as photo-ID, acoustic and behavioural data collection, strandings response as well as data management and team work. There is also a component of outreach work in all projects. Interns will work closely with the project leaders Dr Tess Gridley and Dr Simon Elwen. We are open to students using data collected during internships for student projects. Three type of opportunity are available at different times of year. 1) Long-term volunteer at Sea Search offices - Cape Town, South Africa - 2 month minimum - Oct 2018 to May 2019 - mix of office/analytical/data processing/outreach and field work. Field work covering multiple species , with a special focus on feeding humpback whales on the west coast over autumn and summer. 2) Long-term volunteer at the Namibian Dolphin Project office in Walvis Bay Namibia - 2 month minimum - Oct 2018 to May 2019 - - mix of office/outreach and field work. Research focuses on bottlenose and Heaviside's dolphins, strandings response, outreach with schools, data collection from tour boats and assisting with ~2-4 boat surveys /month 3) Field intensive training internships at the Namibian Dolphin Project in Walvis Bay Namibia - 1 month minimum - Oct 2018 to May 2019. Interns will assist the research team during our main field work period with daily field work on a range of topics. There is a strong field skills training component during this time. There is a cost associated with each internship to help cover training, accommodation etc. PLEASE CONTACT *info@seasearch.co.za <info@seasearch.co.za> for FURTHER DETAILS. *Please include your CV, availability and a brief motivation of the interests More information can be found on the Namibian Dolphin Project (Namibia) and our umbrella organisation Sea Search Research and Conservation (South Africa) by following these links (www.namibiandolphinproject.org, www.seasearch.co.za) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Simon Elwen Ph.D. NRF Research Fellow at the Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria Based at Sea Search Africa - 4 Bath Rd, Muizenberg, Cape Town. Phone: +27 21 788 1206 (Office SA), +27 71 139 5951 (Mob SA) www.seasearch.co.za & www.namibiandolphinproject.org The first *African Bioacoustics Community conference will be held in Cape Town on the **3rd-7th December 2018*. Our aim is to provide a forum within which people working on all aspects of bio-acoustic research can network and communicate. https://africanbioacoustic.wixsite.com/abcommunity https://www.facebook.com/africanbioacousticscommunity/