Benefits/Costs: Housing and Food are covered while living at the field station. No Transportation included
Contact: Fabián Andrés Sánchez Dorado (fasanchez@racsa.co.cr)
The Volunteer Coordinator will be essential in including the volunteers in every aspect of the program. The obligations of a Volunteer Coordinator will include:
- Prepare new volunteers with orientation of our methodology used for the project.
- Coordinate groups for night patrols on the beach
- Verify that the work equipment and vehicles are clean and in good shape
- Revise the data from the previous night in the morning.
- Coordinate management of the hatchery; including 3-hour checks, and excavations
- Maintain the kilometer markers on the beach in good condition
- Maintain hatchery in good conditions
- Help with the coordination of activities for volunteers
Research with your local medical facility on what inoculations or vaccinations you need to protect yourself against tropical disease in the Osa peninsula (Our staff does not take malaria medication and there have not been any cases of malaria in the Osa for a long, long time.). This will be an unforgettable experience where you will learn a lot about the tropical ecosystems of the Pacific southern zone of Costa Rica and help to protect and important sea turtle nesting beach.
Requirements for Volunteer Coordinator
- Must be a University graduate studying biology, ecology or a related field, graduate student or a person with experience working with a similar project.
- Complete and send in the application form for Volunteers
- Send a copy of University transcripts.
- Two recommendations from professors or people who know your work(send the with application)
- Must have the attitude and dream to help conserve sea turtles
- Must be in good physical condition to walk for many kilometers on soft sand
- Bilingual in Spanish and English is helpful
- Valid Drivers License helpful
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Research with your local medical facility on what inoculations or vaccinations you need to protect yourself against tropical disease in the Osa peninsula (Our staff does not take malaria medication and there have not been any cases of malaria in the Osa for a long, long time).
This will be an unforgettable experience where you will learn a lot about the tropical ecosystems of the Pacific southern zone of Costa Rica and help to protect and important sea turtle nesting beach.
Travel information:
There are a few different ways that you can get to the field station in Carate.
The cheap, but very long way: there are one bus from
The quick but expensive way: there are two domestic airlines that fly to Puerto Jimenez multiple times a day. The trip takes about 45 min and costs up to $90 per person. We fly Nature Air.
NATURE AIR
Telephone Puerto Jimenez:(506) 735-5062 OR 735-5722, fax:(506) 735-5043
Telephone
http://www.natureair.net
SANSA
Telephone Puerto Jimenez: (506) 735-5017, fax: (506) 735-5495
Telephone
http://www.flysansa.com
Once you arrive in Puerto Jimenez there is a collectivo bus that will take you to Carate. It leaves twice a day at 6am and 1:30pm. The trip takes about two hours and costs approximately 2500 colones (approx. $6US). This will be the transport you take back and forth from Carate to Puerto Jimenez for email, laundry, etc. Just tell the driver that you are headed for the sea turtle conservation project in Carate and they will drop you off at the Field Station.
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FABIÁN ANDRÉS SÁNCHEZ
Ecólogo
A.A 13700 1000
(Tel. (506) 838 9171 / Tel. Fax: (506) 244 2061)
