During my twelve week internship, I primarily assisted the research department Bottlenose Dolphin Photo ID program in collecting and processing photographs of bottlenose dolphins in the Mississippi Sound. I also had several cross training days with other departments such as: stranding, veterinary research, aquaria maintenance and animal care (bottlenose dolphins, sea lions, sea turtles, sharks, rays, starfish, birds, and reptiles) and marine education and conservation. Internship duties included data entry, learning all research protocols, cropping and sorting photo-ID fin images, learning to use photo-ID programs such as FinFindR, ArcGIS, and Adobe Bridge, collect photograph-based data and enter it into Microsoft Excel, and boat based research (21’ boat)

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