Write to us via snail-mail at:
Dolphin Communication Project, P.O. Box 7485, Port St. Lucie, FL, 34985, USA.
Email us (but please don’t send file attachments or job opening queries):
info {at} dcpmail {dot} org
Are you a researcher or student interested in collaborating with DCP?
Great! Send us an email and let us know about your ideas.
Writing to ask us about Job Opportunities? Hold your horses! Read this first:
The Dolphin Communication Project does not have any vacancies or job opportunities available at present. We often receive queries from people interested in working with us, and many are surprised to learn that DCP is run almost exclusively by volunteers. Our core team consists of our Director, Kathleen Dudzinski, Research Associate and Bimini Research Manager, Kelly Melillo-Sweeting, and Senior Research Associate (and web guru) Justin Gregg. Working together with a handful of outside associates/volunteers, the DCP team is responsible for creating all of the educational and website content, collecting and analyzing all of the data from our various research sites, overseeing interns, volunteers and students, traveling to conferences to present our research findings, and writing and publishing articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and other science publications. All of these tasks are taken care of in the core team’s “free time,” and only small stipends or reimbursements are provided to DCP research associates, if funding is available. DCP is, and has always been, a labor of love; a result of our researchers’ desire to learn more about dolphin behavior and share our results with the general public. The limited funding that we do receive from our fundraising efforts or adoption kit sales is usually used to purchase more modern research equipment or travel to our field sites or conferences, and not destined for researchers’ salaries. Thus, it is unlikely that DCP will have job opportunities available in the near future. We do welcome queries from those interested in volunteering or interning with DCP, and would most certainly welcome donations from those wishing to help us with our research and education efforts.
Writing to ask us a dolphin science question? Hold your horses! Read this first:
Did you check out our Dolphin FAQs? The answer might be in there. Did you listen to all the episodes of The Dolphin Pod? The answer could be there. Did you read this article on how to do online research into dolphin science? Whew! You’ve been busy! If you still can’t find an answer to your dolphin science question, feel free to email us.