● Connect with guests and interpret exhibits, lead encounters, interpret public-viewed training sessions, monitor touch tank● Prepare diets for mammal and avian collections● Clean enclosures, work areas, buckets, toys, etc● Participate in and observe operant conditioning training sessions with 3.1 northern sea otters, 3.1 steller sea lions, 3.1 spotted seals, 3.1 ringed seals● Organize and administer environmental enrichment devices● Observe animal behavior to conduct ethograms● Assist with research data collection, equipment maintenance● Comply with AZA and USDA protocols

● Engage with guests, interpret exhibits, communicate animal handling to volunteers and guests● Performed basic aquarium husbandry (e.g. diet prep, feeds, cleaning, water changes)● Utilized operant conditioning for target feeds and interactions with guests● Maintained large exhibit through the use of snorkeling and free diving● Assisted with tropical quarantine, animal capture and transfer, monitored animal health o bat rays, diamond ray, horn shark, epaulette sharks, wolf eels, rockfish, red octopus’, green sea turtle, white sturgeon, fish-eating anemones ● Collected weekly water quality samples

● Interact with bystanders during coral out-planting; interpreting research and promoting environmental stewardship● Performed basic coral husbandry and aquaculture maintenance duties● Micro-fragmented corals and catalogued 17,000 corals● Participated in staff experiments, veterinary checks, coral spawning and out-planting process● Maintained laboratory cleanliness and safety

● Designed and carried out an experiment measuring blue crabs’ ability to eat invasive apple snails● Collaborated in designing and carrying out an experiment on ability to grow seagrass in controlled laboratory settings● Collected and analyzed water/organism samples, sediment, and from adjacent estuaries and bays