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JOINT UCSB-MMS
PACIFIC OCS STUDENT INTERNSHIP AND TRAINEE PROGRAM
Principal Investigator: Jenifer Dugan
(UCSB) and
Edward Keller
(UCSB)
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Summary of Research
 The CMI internship program experienced continued success
with excellent interest and participation by prospective interns and
mentors. Feedback from all participating interns and mentors
continues to be very positive and enthusiastic. As in previous
years, the UC Santa Barbara Environmental Studies Internship Program
served as an effective mechanism for advertising positions, screening
applicants and reviewing intern performances. The expanded distribution
of advertisements for intern positions to other academic departments at
UC Santa Barbara including: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine
Biology, Department of Geology, Department of Geography, Girvetz
Graduate School of Education and the Donald Bren School of
Environmental Science and Management was effective in locating
prospective interns and was successful in reaching students from a
range of academic majors, levels and backgrounds to fill various
internship openings.
 We work with MMS personnel to develop position
descriptions and advertise new internships through UCSB academic
departments and programs. Student
interns were jointly mentored by MMS staff and/or a member of the UCSB
faculty or professional research staff. During recent years more
than 9 graduate and undergraduate student interns were involved
in 6 projects at MMS headquarters and on
the UCSB campus. Projects
included 1) assisting with the development of websites and online data
reporting for the MARINE rocky intertidal monitoring program (Jennifer
Klaib mentored by Ms. Dunaway of MMS and Dr. Engle of UCSB), 2) the
development and implementation of a comprehensive
compilation of scientific reprints resulting from >15 years of MMS
funded research and provided program assistance (Jennifer
Lape mentored by Dr. Dugan), 3) taking
photographs and developing content for use in updating the CMI website
(Beth O'Connor mentored by Dr. Dugan) and 4)
assisting with the development of K-12 educational curricula and materials comparing alternative energy
sources (Kristina Estudillo mentored by Ms. Dunaway of MMS).
 With funding
provided by the UCSB Shoreline Preservation Fund, our
internship program was expanded to support a number of additional
undergraduate interns who assisted CMI Principal Investigators with CMI
research projects. Student interns for these projects included
Shannon Herrar who assisted with demographic studies of fishes on reefs
and oil platforms mentored by Drs. Brooks and Lenihan, Sabrina Beyer,
Rachelle Fisher, Justin Hoesterey, and Stacie Fejtek who assisted with
sample analyses to compare benthic invertebrates from offshore oil
platforms and natural reefs mentored by Drs. Page and Dugan of UCSB,
Peter White who assisted Dr. Ohlmann with drifter studies, Zuag
Yang who assisted with research on hydrocarbons in natural
petroleum
mentored by Dr. Valentine and Tom Littlejohn who assisted
with otolith studies on fishes mentored by Drs. Brooks and Lenihan.
Joint UCSB-MMS Pacific OCS Graduate
Trainee Program
Graduate students and post-doctoral
researchers continued to be directly or indirectly exposed to research
sponsored by the Coastal Marine Institute through a variety of
mechanisms. This exposure ranged from short term participation in
field studies to the development of thesis proposals related to CMI
projects. Students involved in short-term participation in CMI
projects received summaries of the objectives and the relevance of the
studies to decision-making and policy development at MMS. In
addition, some of the information produced by CMI sponsored projects
has been incorporated into graduate and undergraduate curricula at UC
Santa Barbara. A list of participating graduate students and
postdoctoral researchers appears our Annual Reports.
Information Transfer Seminars (ITS)
Information transfer seminars are
scheduled as requested by MMS personnel.
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CMI Interns
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accomplished web designers:
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