Marine Mammal Stranding Center Seeks Volunteers On LBI

LONG BEACH ISLAND, NJ — Calling all marine animal lovers. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center is seeking volunteers to help stranded marine animals on Long Beach Island.

Volunteers provide assistance to the Center's stranding technicians when animals like harbor seals, loggerhead sea turtles and bottlenose dolphins become stranded on the shore.

A volunteer may take photos of an animal for identification, stay with an animal until a technician arrives, control the crowd around an animal and help the technician with heavy lifting.

Stranding volunteers will be added to a call list so technicians can contact them when a marine animal becomes stranded near the volunteer's area.

Interested applicants must be at least 18 years of age, live within 15 minutes of the nearest beach year-round, and be able to lift 40 pounds and work in harsh weather conditions.

The Center is also seeking volunteers to work in its Sea Life Museum in Brigantine. Volunteers give short tours around the museum, and may assist with education programs, special events, fairs, festivals and farmers markets.

Interested applicants must be at least 18 years old, live within an hour of the center year-round, and be comfortable standing for long periods of time and answering questions from the public.

Applications for both volunteer positions are available at the Center's Sea Life Museum in Brigantine at 3625 Brigantine Blvd.

For more information, check the Marine Mammal Stranding Center's "Get Involved" website page. Questions about the volunteer positions can be submitted online.

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