A minimum of 2 shifts a month is required. Training is provided and new volunteers are paired with experienced volunteers. Make our simulated tide pool and adjacent interpretive station come alive for our visitors. Volunteers give talks on life in the tide pools and work at the interpretive station, demonstrating feeding methods, camouflage, and how animals protect themselves. One shift a week is required.
Training is provided on the job.
Help is also needed to keep the exhibits running. A mentor is selected and a new docent works with this senior docent for approximately 2 months, using the training manual provided for self study. To narrate for our kelp tank cleaning and fish feeding dive show. A minimum of 2 shifts a month is required. Each volunteer has an opportunity to be associated with the world renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography, benefiting from free lectures and other opportunities to learn from ocean specialists.