2023 Marine Interns Blog Week 1: Welcoming the Marine Futures East Coast Interns
Welcome to the opening 2023 blog from the two new marine interns, Sian Peace and Jasmine Brown.
Welcome to the opening 2023 blog from the two new marine interns, Sian Peace and Jasmine Brown.
From sea dipping to treasure hunts in the forest, this week we spent time visiting Lincolnshire nature reserves and getting stuck in with their National Marine Week themed events.
We finished National Marine Week by joining Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust’s Coastal Wardens and participating in the National Whale and Dolphin Watch, in partnership with Sea Watch Foundation.
Discussions with a CEO, discovering our personalities through Insights training, meeting past alumni and big gains in our project work, all at The Crown Estate, London this week.
This week we had the pleasure of attending The Wildlife Trust’s annual Federation conference. This year held at the University of Keele.
We have now concluded our 6 month Marine Futures Internship at Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust! We thought we would share an overview of our experiences and some of our favourite activities in the…
Communications Officer, Rachel Shaw, discovers the hidden lives of one of our favourite insects.
This week we had the pleasure of joining Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s Seagrass Project Officer and Assistant at Spurn point to assist with seagrass seed collection!
This week, I joined Laura Welton, the Native Oyster Restoration Officer at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, and assisted her with some oyster work at Spurn Point National Nature Reserve (NNR).
This week, Jasmine attended Natural England’s Offshore Wind Event in Brighton. The 2-day event began with a conference and ended with a trip out to sea to the 72 km2 Rampion Wind Farm.
We attended Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust’s Conservation Strategy Team meeting last week, where we had the pleasure of presenting our projects to the group and creating discussion over feedback.
As we head into our last month of our internship, we are finishing off our research projects and had the chance to get out in the field for the final time! Over the past two weeks, Jasmine and I…