Zoe Hosford

I completed a semester long internship with the USFWS as a Sea Otter Stranding Response Intern in Homer, AK. I got the opportunity to respond to live and dead sea otter stranding calls, along with assisting in sea otter necropsies, working very closely with the Alaska Sealife Center. I also got the opportunity to assist with a study being completed at the SeaLife Center involving the scat of sea otters. While assisting with this study, I got to collect scat samples from various places around Homer, learning to take AMIE swabs, and whole scat samples.