WHY?

Realizing your internship at UCME gives you the best opportunity to learn all about marine ecology, from a close perspective, to participate and collaborate in a research team, practice your English and also to have all the tools and professional help you need to do your thesis.

HOW?

The first week you get an Open Water and an Advanced OW course and licence at the Utila Dive Centre so you can be completely able to participate in the researches. After having the license, you are ready to work with the team; dolphin and whale surveys, Coral, algae and seagrass researches, Mangroves and fishes are going to make your 15 weeks here too short. As part of the team you are going to receive a lot of responsibilities helping in the different projects that the staff is developing; taking data, taking samples in field, evaluating changes, working in the office and giving presentations. Despite it, you also have to give yourself the time to work in your own project; with help of the doctors and masters that conform UCME, you are going to be able to have a professional and developed thesis by the end of the internship.

ACCOMMODATION

At UCME You will receive Housing in a beautiful house with other 6 volunteers and interns, the house has two bathrooms with hot water, a big living room, a great garden and a beautiful front porch with an amazing sight. All your meals are given to you, for breakfasts you can serve yourself anything you like from the kitchen and on Sundays you have the opportunity to cook something typical from your country or go and visit any of the restaurants in the island, you can find meals starting from 50 Lps. In your free time you can find interesting things to do, like going to the beach, explore the island, the bats cave and even have some fundivings around the island.

TESTIMONIALS

"Working at UCME has been a real challenging experience; here you get a unique opportunity to work really close to the nature, have problems and solve them, organize and participate in real surveys. All that makes you grow as a person and as a professional" Alicia Bustillos (Bolivia)

"My time at UCME was amazing, wonderful, because I learned a lot of things. I could improve my English because we lived with other volunteers from different parts of the world and shared our experiences. When I arrived at UCME the first thing that I learned was diving, in the beginning was really scared, because just two weeks before I learned to swim in the swimming pool but now I love diving. We have the alternative that do the thesis here, my work is focus in mangroves and the relationship with sea grasses. Enjoy and help the coral reef with your work!!!" Lourdes Arrueta (Bolivia)