Students Become Researchers

Pacific Marinelife Institute is launching an exciting program in 2011 allowing Primary and Secondary school students the chance to become dolphin researchers without leaving the classroom. Science classes can assist in plotting dolphin sightings, compare pod activity with climatic information and help in identifying individual dolphins from data received from Project boats. The Institute will also be organizing class expeditions at various locations so students who have been involved in classroom based activities can also take on a field role. The Friends of the Dolphin program will also be encouraging the adoption of dolphin pods by the different year levels, so that each year the school based program is continued by the incoming students.