Investigating the Macroinvertebrate Communities Living within the Posidonia oceanica Wracks
Monday, 15 February 2021
My name is Ellie and I am currently studying Biological Sciences at the University of Essex. Currently, I am on a placement year with Archipelagos, from October 2020 until July 2021. Here at Archipelagos, I have developed a marine-terrestrial based project investigating the macroinvertebrate communities living within the Posidonia oceanica wracks. Wrack can be defined
- Published in Intern Experience, Marine Conservation Team, Work Journal
Creation of a Guide for Identification of the Aegean Sea Fish Species of the Littoral Zone
Monday, 15 February 2021
Katja Wolff, a Swiss-Greek intern from Paros island, Greece, who during her gap year worked on creating a fish ID guide based on the fish species she had been recording while on her visual-census surveys. For the creation of this guide she used photos she had collected along with some of her very own illustrations
- Published in Intern Experience, Marine Conservation Team, Work Journal
Migle worked as a member of the Marine conservation team at Archipelagos. She chose Archipelagos after hearing what a great platform it creates for a young scientist to get experience and work on exciting projects. Migle had been with Archipelagos for 9 months, working on a variety of projects and learning different methods. Her main
- Published in Intern Experience, Marine Conservation Team, Work Journal
Assessment of the abundance of invasive fish with the use of a Remote Underwater Video (RUV) method
Monday, 15 February 2021
I am a recent graduate of Ecological and Environmental Sciences from the University of Edinburgh and I joined the Marine Ecology team in Lipsi for a 3-month internship. My project was focused on surveying the abundance of invasive fish in different habitats and at various bays around the island, using a Remote Underwater Video (RUV)
- Published in Intern Experience, Marine Conservation Team, Work Journal
Working towards an improving seagrass mapping methodology
Monday, 15 February 2021
I am a recent graduate student from the University of Birmingham, UK, with a BSc in Geography. The GIS and Remote Sensing internship at Archipelagos stood out to me as it combined independent field projects using a variety of remote sensing techniques with interesting data analysis on research that focus on the most vulnerable ecological
- Published in GIS Team, Intern Experience, Work Journal
Assessing Seagrass Health
Monday, 15 February 2021
My name is Roos and I’m studying Coastal and Marine management at Van Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. During the 3 months I joined Archipelagos as an intern I was part of the marine ecology team on Lipsi Island. During my internship I worked on the data collection on Seagrass Health
- Published in Intern Experience, Marine Conservation Team, Work Journal
Assessing the Biodiversity of Zooplankton in the Aegean Sea
Monday, 15 February 2021
My name is Lisa and I am studying Coastal and Marine management at Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. I joined the Marine Mammal team of Archipelagos on Lipsi Island for a 3-month internship. I have been given the opportunity to start a new project, which was a comparative study between
- Published in Intern Experience, Marine Mammal Team, Work Journal
Remote Internship – a photo-identification study of the short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis
Thursday, 19 November 2020
I study Animal Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. When I first started my remote internship, I thought it would be like learning like I am at the university. I was extremely wrong where I had the freedom and flexibility to customize my remote internship – how I learn,
- Published in Marine Mammal Team, Work Journal
Documentary filmmaking internship
Thursday, 05 November 2020
‘Having recently graduated from a degree studying biomedical sciences in Edinburgh, I am currently working towards pursuing a career in science media, specifically relating to filmmaking. So, after finding out Archipelagos offered a documentary filmmaking internship, it was a very fitting decision to come to Greece for a few months. It has been great experience
- Published in Media Team, Work Journal
Macro-invertebrates around Lipsi island
Friday, 30 October 2020
I am Jan and I am studying marine sciences at the Scottish association for marine sciences in Oban. I have joined the marine ecology team here on Lipsi between July and October 2020 and I recently set up a project on macro-invertebrates and their abundance/activity on different substrates and at different times of the day.
- Published in Marine Conservation Team, Work Journal
A remote project studying site fidelity in Delphinus delphis populations
Saturday, 19 September 2020
As a remote intern on the Marine Mammal research team, much of my work focused on analysis of photo identification data. Previously, I have carried out research involving parasites in marine mammals at Smith College, but this internship provided me with the opportunity to gain experience with field work. Although I was not able to
- Published in Marine Mammal Team, Work Journal
Remote Internship – GIS for Marine Conservation
Wednesday, 09 September 2020
As a geography student from Nottingham Trent University in the UK I worked on a remote internship programme using GIS with Archipelagos for six weeks, opening doors to a new field of research in marine conservation. I began my placement from home on 15th June 2020 where my pre-existing GIS skills were put to the
- Published in GIS Team, Work Journal
Dolphins’ interactions with fish farms & assess the marine litter in the Aegean Sea.
Saturday, 22 August 2020
My name is Caroline and I come from France, where I study agronomy and environmental science. After a study semester in the Netherlands to learn more about the aquaculture and marine resources management, I came to Archipelagos, until the summer, to be part of the Marine Mammal Team. I am working on two separate projects.
- Published in Marine Mammal Team, Work Journal
Seagrass distribution mapping
Saturday, 22 August 2020
I am a master’s student in the Sea and Society master’s program at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and I hold a master’s in computer science. Due to my technical background, I was very interested in the GIS and remote sensing internship that is offered at Archipelagos. I decided to spend my summer there and see
- Published in GIS Team, Work Journal
Tursiops truncatus (bottlenose dolphins) and their habitat use/ abundance in relation to different seasons
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
My name is Luke Rodgers and I study Marine biology at Queen’s University in Belfast. I came to Archipelagos as part of my placement year and will be working on the Island of Lipsi from January until the end of June, here I joined the Marine mammal team in their ongoing research in the Aegean
- Published in Marine Mammal Team, Work Journal
Remote program – preliminarily start analysing social organization and site fidelity of the Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) population
Sunday, 19 July 2020
My name is Margarida, I am from Portugal. I am currently doing an international master program – IMBRSea (International Master of Science in Marine Biological Resources). From April 21st to June 16th , 2020 I did my master’s Professional Practice on Marine Mammal Research and Conservation with “Archipelagos – Institute of Marine Conservation”. Due to
- Published in Marine Mammal Team, Work Journal
Marine Bioacoustics, focussing on the effect of boat presence and anthropogenic noise
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
I am a third year University student from London (UK), studying Biological Sciences (MSci) at the University of Birmingham. I joined the Marine Mammal Research team at Archipelagos because I love fauna and have a passion for conservation! My research specialises in Marine Bioacoustics, focussing on the effect of boat presence and anthropogenic noise on
- Published in Marine Mammal Team, Work Journal
Creation of a Guide for Identification of the Aegean Sea Fish Species of the Littoral Zone
Tuesday, 23 June 2020
Katja Wolff, a Swiss-Greek intern, is currently working on making a fish ID guide based on the fish species she has been recording during her visual-census surveys. To create this guide she is using photos she has been collecting as well as her own illustrations to point out the characteristics that differentiate each species. Her
- Published in Marine Conservation Team, Work Journal
Producing short videos for the Marine Conservation projects
Monday, 22 June 2020
My name is Yassir Elbashir, and I’m part of the media team. I decided to join Archipelagos because I wanted to try photography and videography in a new field and gain experience while working abroad. While searching for internships, Archipelagos was recommended to me by a friend. I have been at Archipelagos for 3 months
- Published in Media Team, Work Journal
Increase knowledge about the Delphinus delphis
Saturday, 30 May 2020
I was always looking for a job in which I could make a small contribution to the protection of our environment. After a long search, I stumbled across my current study program – Geoinformation and Environmental Technologies in Villach, Austria. I realised that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were exactly what I was looking for. By
- Published in GIS Team, Work Journal
Developing a documentary about Archipelagos’ marine mammal team
Friday, 22 May 2020
My name is Delaney Rea, and I’m from the United States. I graduated from the University of Oregon in June of 2018 with a degree in journalism and multimedia, with an emphasis on video and design. At Archipelagos, I’m a member of the media team. I mainly work on video projects for the organization, but
- Published in Media Team, Work Journal
Promoting awareness about plastic pollution through Media Team
Friday, 24 January 2020
My name is Melanie Wagemans, and I am a member of the Archipelagos Media Team. I attend university at the Grafisch Lyceum (School for Graphic Design) in Utrecht, the Netherlands—my home country. There, I follow a course in audiovisual studies. Before I came to Archipelagos, I was mostly working on music videos for rock and metal
- Published in Media Team, Work Journal
Using GIS and Remote Sensing for Conservation
Thursday, 28 November 2019
We (Emma, Casey, and Luciana) have now been working on the GIS Team at Archipelagos for the past eight weeks, allowing for the opportunity to work on many interesting projects. We all arrived around the same time at Archipelagos and it has been very beneficial to collaborate and exchange ideas and knowledge when tackling new
- Published in GIS Team, Intern Experience, Work Journal
Assessing Microplastic Content in Marine Megafauna
Friday, 22 November 2019
I come from Denmark where I study Aquatic Science and Technology at Technical University of Denmark. I came to Archipelagos for 4 months to be a part of the Marine Mammal Team, in the subteam Microplastics. In the Microplastics team I am working on a project assessing the microplastic content in gastrointestinal tracts of marine
- Published in Intern Experience, Marine Mammal Team, Microplastic Team, Work Journal
Working on Dolphins’ Behaviour in Archipelagos
Friday, 22 November 2019
I study Biological Sciences at University of Birmingham. I came to Archipelagos to join the Marine Mammal Team and I am working on the dolphin behaviour project, looking at the behaviours of Delphinus delphis (short-beaked common dolphin). Behavioural data taken during a sighting includes behavioural states (swimming or diving) and behavioural events (bow, breach, leap,
- Published in Intern Experience, Marine Mammal Team, Work Journal
Research on Island Habitats Aiming to Contribute to their Conservation
Thursday, 24 October 2019
As a member of Arhcipelagos’ terrestrial research team, my aim is to learn about the fauna living on the Samos island in order to preserve it better. We have multiple projects (most of them seasonal) on the different species that we monitor around the island, such as the jackal bioacoustics surveys, jackal scats analysis, jackal
- Published in Intern Experience, Terrestrial Conservation Team, Work Journal
Using Macroinvertebrates as a Bio-indicator for Seagrass Health
Monday, 23 September 2019
Soon after arriving in Samos, Greece in June 2019, Vivienne and Amy transferred to the island of Lipsi. Here, they spent the majority of their internship working with Archipelagos on the marine conservation team; Amy, being a recent graduate who studied wildlife conservation and ecology at the University of Chester, UK and Vivienne, who is
- Published in Intern Experience, Marine Conservation Team, Work Journal