Volunteers needed! Your chance to give the low-tide lowdown

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(January 2011 photo shared by Lisa)
Just about everyone loves walking our beautiful beaches at low tide. Are you ready to help beach visitors learn more about what they’re seeing – as well as how to make sure they don’t cause unintended harm? The Seattle Aquarium‘s volunteer Beach Naturalist program – which stations volunteers on area beaches (including two in West Seattle) during summertime low tides – is looking for help. Here’s the official announcement just out of the WSB inbox:

Care about beaches? Good with people? Sign up to be a volunteer beach naturalist at a Seattle-area beach this summer. Naturalists will attend a program orientation on Tuesday April 12, and receive training from marine and interpretative experts on four weekday evenings (April 19, May 3, 10 and 17) and three weekend days (April 23, May 7 and 21). Once trained, volunteers spend three summer days educating visitors about beach ecology and beach etiquette at Carkeek Park, Constellation Park (South Alki), Des Moines Beach Park, Golden Gardens, Lincoln Park, Olympic Sculpture Park Beach, Redondo Beach, Richmond Beach or Seahurst Park. To sign up or get more information, please email beachnaturalist@seattleaquarium.org or call (206) 386.4365.

kate March 7, 2011 (1:59 pm)

I was a Beach Naturalist for two years and a Seattle Aquarium volunteer for several years. I highly recommend it. Actually, I think I need to get retrained and go back for more. It’s such a fun job. You would not believe the amount of cool creatures we have living in our waters. I was surprised to learn that Puget Sound is home to deep water sharks. We also have one of the richest tidal exchanges in the world which is why the water so often looks green. Don’t even get me started on nudibranchs!

Machel Spence March 7, 2011 (3:32 pm)

I did this for 7 years and loved it! m-

mcbride March 7, 2011 (4:03 pm)

That there is one fine photograph.

John March 7, 2011 (7:37 pm)

I signed up for this program for purely selfish reasons: I wanted to learn about the critters we see at low tide. I was thrilled to discover how much fun it is talking to other people about them and seeing how excited people get!

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