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Sandra Camilleri, BS, Research Assistant
I came to Florida in January 2006 for an internship with the Chicago Zoological Society’s Sarasota Dolphin Research Program (SDRP). I grew up in southeastern Michigan, on an island south of Detroit called Grosse Ile. I attended Wayne State University in Detroit and graduated in December 2005 with a BS in Environmental Science and a minor in Geology. As an intern, I gained experience with the purse-seining project to assess dolphin prey fish abundance and distribution, assisted in monthly surveys of the dolphin community, learned photo-identification methods, and worked on data entry tasks. In July 2006, I was hired to work as a research technician “deck boss” on the purse-seining fishing project. In the field, I am responsible for the safe deployment and operation of the fishing gear, the safety of those on the boat (primarily interns), and collecting data on the fish community. Responsibilities in the lab include data entry, acoustic analysis of field recordings, red tide cell counts, and the overall maintenance of the 28-ft research vessel Flip. I am interested in toxicology, specifically how contaminants and pharmaceuticals move through and impact the environment, and hope to pursue this at the masters level in the future.
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