Internships
Posted by Parsleybill@reddit | marinebiology | View on Reddit | 4 comments
My daughter is currently looking for a long-term marine biology-based internship. She is an undergraduate biology student and is a qualified diver. Ideally, this would be a longer-term placement of about 9 months although she could do two smaller ones.
She is happy to work hard and pay for her food, lodgings, transport, other expenses etc, but a lot of what we are seeing is very expensive and priced more like vacation experiences. In fact, her university will not give credit for a paid-for internship.
If any of you kind people have any ideas for what we are looking for we would be most grateful. My daughters is based in the UK but is very open-minded when it comes to destinations.
Opposumfart@reddit
She should apply to REUs. Those generally would pay for lodging and give her a stipend as well.
Ocean2731@reddit
There are internships through NOAA at the marine sanctuaries and national estuarine research reserves, among other locations. The NOAA Education website has a nice list.
gladesguy@reddit
These paid-for or unpaid internships in exotic locations are generally not taken seriously as work experience and might even be viewed as a strike against her. She'd be much better off getting a local internship, volunteering locally and/or getting research experience through a professor's lab.
JustAnotherBarnacle@reddit
I don't know if much has changed recently but when I did my degree, internships were not really a thing, outside of the expensive ones abroad that I think you are referring to. She'd be better off looking for volunteer opportunities at local labs that she is interested in and writing to them directly to see if they have anything. That is what the students who were keen on staying in the field did to get experience, that and volunteer at aquariums and charities related to her interest