Author: Intern
Seal Pup Shower Saturday April 16, 2016
We’re expecting here at the National Marine Life Center- the harbor seal pups are on their way! Late April-June is harbor seal pupping season in New England and one of the busiest times for our rehabilitation staff. Each year many pups are abandoned by their mothers, often due to human interaction and will not survive […]
16 Sea Turtles Headed to Release
the National Marine Life Center will release 16 rehabilitated Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, the most endangered sea turtle species in the world, in Florida on Monday. These juvenile turtles were rescued by Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in November and December, and received emergency care at the New England Aquarium before they were transferred […]
The first SEAL-ebrities have landed!
After deciding upon on the 2016 seal naming theme back in December there has been a lot of anticipation as to who our first “Seal-lebrity” patients would be. Well the wait is finally over. In the past week we have admitted not one but two “Seal-lebrities” into our marine animal hospital to kick of the […]
NMLC’s First Round of 2015 Summer Pups Return Home to the Ocean
On Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 the National Marine Life Center’s staff, volunteers, and interns were joined by a crowd of about 500 supporters to send three seal patients back into the wild. Harbor seals Basil, Juniper, and Sea Salt checked out of rehab at about 6p.m. and were transported to Scusset Beach State Reservation to […]
Internship Project: Toys for Seals!
Back in May when we all started our internship (where did the time go?), part of our responsibilities included choosing a summer project to help out with things around the National Marine Life Center. This was a little daunting at first, but the wonderful staff gave out some ideas to start us off: redesign the […]
Mermaid Ball Spotlight: Our New Auctioneer
This year we’d like to welcome Bill Murphy to our team. Bill is the president of the Cape Cod Charitable FunRaisers. He founded the organization in 1994 with the desire to plan and present events for nonprofit organizations. Some of these have included Roll the Rock, Summerfest, The Night of Gratitude, and the Holiday Season […]
You can give a seal a fish, but they may not eat it.
It is finally that time of the season where our oh-so cute harbor seal pups have begun weaning off pup formula and fish gruel and started moving on to being assist fed whole fish then eating fish on their own! Because their mothers are not present, Basil, Rue, Sage, Juniper, and Sea Salt need a […]
A Typical Day @ NMLC
National Marine Life Center – Journal Entry 16 Today was a fairly typical day here at the National Marine Life Center. It is a Saturday, so I had the afternoon shift as well as the late feed – which changed from 11pm to 9pm; I am much less tired at this time! My fellow intern […]
A Day Working on the Animal Care Team
July 6, 2015 This is a blog about one of my days working on the Animal Care team. You would assume every day would be the same – prep feeds, tubing and restraining the animals, cleaning the facilities, etc. However I’ve been surprised with how each day brings something new. Today I was assigned the […]
NMLC’s New Pup Room
This season we have taken in more stranded pups than ever before. With all these beautiful babies in our hospital, we soon found that we were quickly running out of room. Enter our heroes Wendy and Mark Wyman. Mark put his stellar building skills to work, laboring as soon as he got out of work […]