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!!! это перепост, есличо обращайтесь к организаторам - их контакты на сайте http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/node/315.
В двух словах - за 2700зеленых ( to
help cover survey costs, local travel, accommodation, and food.) +билеты +страховка можно поучаствовать в мониторинге мелководных коралловых рифов вокруг Филиппин. Продолжительность - 2 месяца - сентябрь-октябрь.

Volunteer Divers wanted -Marine Protected Areas (Philippines), for
Sept/Oct or March/April

Project Seahorse and its NGO partner in the Philippines are seeking
volunteer, certified SCUBA divers (minimum 15 logged dives) who are
interested in participating in a long-term monitoring program for
marine protected areas (MPAs) in northern Bohol, Philippines.

The surveys are conducted biannually, one in the dry season
(March/April) and one in the wet season (Sept/Oct). An eight-week
commitment is required comprising approximately two weeks of training
and six weeks of survey work. Surveys are easily influenced by weather
and other unpredictable events, so the duration of the fieldwork may
vary. If completed quickly, volunteers will be asked to assist with
other conservation work, such as data encoding or assisting with other
biological field programs.


For applications visit the following - note the deadline for Sept/Oct
has been extended to July 15th:


http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/node/315




ADDITIONAL INFO:


Diving Survey Work

In the dry season, sites are surveyed for fish communities and
seahorses. In the wet season, benthic communities, coral complexity
and seahorses are censused. Diving will involve shallow dives,
generally 3-10 m, rarely to a maximum of 14 m, both during the day
(benthic, coral and fish surveys) and during the night (seahorse
surveys). Photography is used in the benthic surveys; although
beneficial, no prior experience with underwater photography is
required. We will select 3-4 international volunteers for each survey.

Requirements for volunteering

The Project Seahorse Foundation requires a donation of $2700 USD to
help cover survey costs, local travel, accommodation, and food.
Volunteers must also provide their own SCUBA gear and are responsible
for the cost of their return airfare to the Philippines, visa costs,
travel/health insurance and appropriate vaccinations, together with
providing proof of a current dive medical and dive insurance.

A working knowledge of coral reef fish families and benthic fauna
(esp. corals) and flora would be an advantage.

Volunteers will be supervised by the Project Seahorse Foundation
Survey Biologist and based in Handumon (Jandayan Island). On arrival
in Cebu City, the Project Seahorse Foundation staff will organize a
comprehensive orientation on its programs and projects, MPA survey
schedule, safety protocols, and community and team living.

Application timeline

Interviews will be conducted in the last week of June 2012 by phone.

Payment of donation: 50% of the required donation should be paid after
selected applicants have been notified, and the remaining 50% at start
of the programme.

Recommended texts

Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide by Allen, G. and Steene, R. (1999).

Marine Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and South East Asia by Allen, G. (1997).

Diving/Scuba equipment (*essential)

Mask & snorkel
Fins for booties (not socks)
Booties (for walking among mangroves and over coral rubble)
Full wetsuit (3 mm, protects against stinging jellyfish and sun)
Weight belt (Project Seahorse will provide weights)
Knife
SCUBA gear
Buoyancy compensation device (BCD) Regulator with content gauge
and depth gauge

Background information

Long-term monitoring of Marine Protected Areas

In 1998, Project Seahorse initiated the long term monitoring programme
for assessing MPA effectiveness in northern Bohol. The motivation
behind the programme is three-fold:

(1) to provide up-to-date monitoring data to inform fishing
communities about the status of their reefs, (2) to catalyze community
interest in managing and establishing additional MPAs, and (3) to
provide scientifically robust data for assessing the impact on MPAs on
the recovery of coral reefs.

Trial surveys were conducted in the late 1990s, and the full design of
the programme was established in 2001. Over the past decade, over 70
international volunteers have participated in the programme, and it is
with their hard work and commitment that we continue to meet our
objective of quantifying the response of seahorses, fishes and benthic
organisms (e.g. live coral) to protection.

Currently a total of seven MPAs are being monitored, each with a
control site situated just outside the MPA. In addition, four more
distant control sites have also been selected (see table). The MPAs
are located in four municipalities in Bohol.

Please email your application to Angelie Nellas at a.nellas@projectseahorse.org.
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