Now enrolling for summer 2026!
We are thrilled to be offering ONE session in summer 2026 with the exclusive opportunity to work and learn at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in beautiful Juno Beach, Florida.
Curriculum: Monday – Friday, we will be at Loggerhead Marinelife Center or on project approximately 8am – 1pm. You will have the afternoons and evenings free when programming is over.
On this program, you will learn about lab techniques such as suturing and bloodwork, shadow hospital rounds of sea turtle patients, participate in lectures on wildlife medicine topics, learn sea turtle handling and restraint methods working with cadavers, participate in a sea turtle necropsy, explore the Hatchling Discovery program, and tour the Florida Atlantic University Marine Science Lab and the indoor and outdoor hospital and aquariums at the LMC. One evening, we will go on a night turtle walk on the beach (approximately 8pm to midnight) to look for nesting loggerhead sea turtles (these are wild animals so of course a sighting isn’t guaranteed, but it is nesting season so chances are high!)
Activities will be dependent on what’s going on at LMC when you are there but may include:
• Indoor and outdoor hospital tour
• Case rounds of hospitalized patients
• Food preparation and animal feedings
• Suture, cytology, and bloodwork labs
• Hatchling Discovery program
• Wildlife medicine lectures
• Sea turtle necropsy
• Florida Atlantic University Marine Science Lab tour
• Nesting and hatching success surveys
• Sea turtle handling workshop with cadavers, including restraint methods, medical administration, tube feeding, and
blood draws
• Guided coastal kayak tour and snorkeling
• Night Turtle walk (approx 8pm – midnight) one evening to look for nesting loggerhead sea turtles
2026 session (FULL): Sunday, July 12 – Saturday, July 18. Arrive Sunday, July 12 for orientation and welcome dinner. Full-day programming at Loggerhead Marinelife Center Monday – Friday. Group beach day on the final program Saturday. Depart Saturday, July 18.
2027 session coming soon
3 credits, 10 vet and animal hours, 50 research hours
2 credits, 70 vet and animal hours, 10 research hours
Two weeks in Bali supporting sea turtle conservation and cat rescue initiatives!
3 credits, 25 lecture hours, 70 lab hours
June 27- July 3, 2027
Two weeks with Dr. Sylvia Earle’s Mission Blue diving Hope Spots and protecting the ocean!
