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Brie holding a baby American Alligator

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Expand my public speaking skills, and get people excited about conservation.

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I hope to learn from the staff around me as well as from the

• ther interns.

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I hope to get out in New England – experience the culture, food, and entertainment that they have here.

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I hope to have an impact on the people I speak to and work with and for the people to have an impact on me.

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Get a list of graduate programs I’m interested together

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Contact some major sea turtle researchers to inquire about

• penings in their programs

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Oh – and maybe even get a tan?!

 Animal Care  Education/Outreach  Writing (blogs)  Strandings/Animal

rescue

 Fundraising

 Salinity  Diet prep  Filters  Haul outs  Disinfectant

 Plastron ID’s  Measurements  Headstart programs  Husbandry

 How to

weigh/measure turtles

 Ask questions  Crash course in a

variety of turtle ailments

 Observing and

assisting with treatments

 See the full cycle of

rehab and the end goal

 Revisit mass public

education

 See the impact of

letting people get involved at the most basic level

 Cross Contamination  Shift in focus from

zoo animal care

› Food presentation › Enrichment › Veterinary

involvement

 Complexity of

animal rehab vs. zoo care.

 Contamination

concerns

 Temp, salinity, pH,

haul outs, filters, diet prep, etc.

I have a personal interest in these guys because I helped with retrieving them and I was allowed to name

• ne, Vesuvius.

 Proper nutrition  Calcium  Releasable?

Bruce Pierce

Brittany and Kate giving one of the hatchlings their calcium treatments.

 Nitrogen cycle  Coliform bacteria  Healthy ranges  Shift from zoo animal

care focus

 Non-profit work is

variety

 Diet prep  Filtration system  Painting, baseboard,

sanitation

NMLC Interns at our Mass Wildlife field trip.

 Big question: science

• r education?

› …how about both?

 Many age groups

› How to work with

adults, teens, and children

 Thinking on feet  Answering questions  Keeping them

engaged

 Enthusiasm is key!  Making sure kids are

constantly involved

 Trying to make it as

real as possible

 Teaching them real

procedures and recruiting people to this field

 On the road programs

› “Highway” education

 How to talk to people

that may or may not have an interest

 Finding ways to

engage and spark people’s interests

 Exposing people to

new ideas

 Length has changed  Quality of

information keeps getting better

 Tailor it to the group

 Not all a happy story

› Reality check

 Public education  Public safety  Rehab’s role  Need for the

National Marine Life Center

Kathy Zagzebski (President and CEO of NMLC) with IFAW taking the porpoise away

 Network of

• rganizations

 Different type of

wildlife rehab – some similar concerns

 No news is good

news.

 Many ways to have

an impact

NMLC volunteers and interns cleaning up the beach after we couldn’t find the seal pup.

 The animals are easy

in comparison to the people we educate

This seal was harassed on Scusset beach by well- meaning people.

Brittany and I hung out with the grey seal juvenile, the animal was healthy, but we were responsible for educating people and keeping them away from the animal.

 Often, the best thing

you can do for an animal is leave it alone.

 Collaboration

› Bring people

together

 Hopefully lessening

the need for rehab

 Animal rehab is

multi-faceted

 An ounce of

prevention is worth a pound of cure

 Network  Prep work

Brian helping to load donated fish into the van.

 Interns raised ~$500

dollars worth of merchandise and donations for the Mermaid Ball

 How to pitch

› Passion › Guilt trip › Let them see the

vision

› Use your good looks

 Useful in

presentations and standalone

 Educational for all

age groups

 Design changes

› Downsizing

Between a seal and a sea lion?

Seals Sea Lions

We live…

Harbor seal. Photo credit: wikimedia commons via eol.org. www.eol.org/data_objects/6827471

• Mammals: we have live young, have hair or fur and

backbones, breathe air, and are endothermic (warm-blooded).

• Pinnip

nnipeds: which means “fin-footed.”

• Semi-Aquatic

quatic: we spend part of our lives on land and part at sea.

• Prote

tecte ted by the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.

• Preyed upon by polar bears, orcas and sharks.

We are both…

New Zealand sea lion. Photo credit: wikimedia commons via eol.org. http://www.eol.org/data_objects/5900867

Researched by Brie Myre

What’s the Difference…

Betw tween een a a po porpo poise ise an and a a dol

• lphin

phin?

Dolphins Porpoises We are both…

• Mammals: we have live young, have hair or

fur and backbones, breathe air, and are endothermic (warm-blooded).

• Odontoce

ntocetes: toothed whales.

• We have a single blowhole
• Complete

tely y aquati tic: most live in salt water, a few species can live in freshwater.

• Users of echoloca
• cati

tion

• n: to catch prey.
• Prote

tecte ted by the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.

Atlantic White-Sided dolphin. Photo credit: Regina Asmutis-Silvia, WDCS

Harbor porpoise. Photo credit: Ari Friedlaender.

We live…

Researched by Brie Myre

 Research  Finding pictures  Slide

arrangement/design

 Making it interactive  Interactive side:

pictures of animals will be cut into puzzle pieces with the characteristics on them.

 Seals vs. Sea Lions › Some info was too

complex for an inclusive poster – so I wrote a blog on the topic

 Dolphins vs. Porpoises › No background –

complete learning experience

A member of the Phocidae family Can’t rotate back flippers: move like a caterpillar on land No external earflaps Use back flippers for power when swimming Use front flippers for steering when swimming Eat: krill, fish, lobster, birds Claws and fur on front flippers A member of the Otariidae family Can rotate back flippers under themselves to walk and run on land External earflaps Use front flippers for power when swimming Use back flippers for steering when swimming Eat: squid, octopus, birds and fish No claws or hair on front flippers

Seals Sea Lions

Mammals Pinnipeds “fin-footed.” Semi- Aquatic Protected by the MMPA Preyed upon by polar bears, orcas and sharks.

Conical shaped teeth Social animals Long rostrum Sexually mature at 6-16 yrs Live for 20-60 years 16 species Spade shaped teeth Live alone or in small, fluid groups No prominent beak Sexually mature at 3+ years Live for 20 years 6 species Epidermal tubercules Paedomorphosis Small flippers and bodies

Some species live in fresh water Toothed whales (Odontoc etes) Single blowhole

Dolphins Porpoises

 Intro.  Cooter Release  Freshwater turtle care  Monofilament

Recycling

 Nitrogen Cycle  Bourne Recycling

Center

 Seals vs. Sea Lions  Sea Turtles Part 1:

Biology and Behavior

 Sea Turtles Part 2:

Disease, Predators and Conservation

 Part 3: Leatherbacks,

Loggerheads, Greens

 Part 4: Kemp’s, Olives,

Hawksbills and Flatbacks

 Seal Stranding Blog  Dolphin vs. Porpoise?  Conclusion?

 Option change?  Education focus  RA connections

I got some Thai food for lunch my second day at the NMLC – and this was the fortune I got. So true.

First big step You cared – you guys are what made this summer special. I chose this internship because I believed that I would meet great people and learn a lot – I had no idea how right I was.