Data Assistant Fall 2025 Internship with The Wild Dolphin Project, managed by FAU School of Environment, Coastal Ocean Sustainability
Data Assistant Fall 2025 Internship with The Wild Dolphin Project
** Please note: This is not an on-campus job opportunity. This internship opportunity is with The Wild Dolphin Project. Funding for this program is provided through FAU's School of Environmental, Coastal and Ocean Sustainability.
About The Wild Dolphin Project
The Wild Dolphin Project is a non-profit scientific research organization that studies and reports on a specific pod of free ranging Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis). Since 1985, Denise Herzing has been studying dolphin communication in the wild. Objectives of this long-term, non-invasive field research on wild dolphins are to gather information on the natural history of these dolphins, including dolphin behaviors, social structure, dolphin communication, and habitat; and to report what we have learned to the scientific community and the general public.
Internship Description:
Fall Semester 2025 – During this time we are primarily engaged in processing our data from summer fieldwork, preparing for the upcoming field season in the Bahamas. We occasionally go out for the day looking for Florida dolphins under an NMS permit.
An intern could be involved in preparing data for summer fieldwork and participate in occasional Florida days at sea. This would involve
- going through identification photos and preparing and printing the best ones for a field manual
- setting up a working laptop with any new data or programs for the coming field season
- participate in occasional Florida days off the coast and learn how to operate a camera for photo identification shots of dolphins
- process any new dolphin identification shots and work on matching individuals
- organize data sheets for the new field season
Qualifications:
Organizational skills, database entry, Photoshop or photo processing software, video editing. Students will need a US Passport for any Bahamas work.
Intern Title: Data Assistant
Organization Name: Wild Dolphin Project
Hours per Week: 20
Start Date: August 15
End Date: January 15
Job Location City: North Palm Beach
Job Location State: FL
Please note: Students selected for this internship, must register their internship for 0 credit or academic credit with Florida Atlantic University