intern exp =]

The first week of internship is a training week. I have to read many data about dolphins and whales, and annual reports to government. That can make me rich in knowledge of dolphins and hence help me to handle the field works well.

        The land-base field works in Tai O let me observe the behaviors of humpback dolphin clearly and I have learnt finishing the works by GPS and theodolite. The theodolite can accurately detect the position of dolphins and boats.

    

        In the boat observation, I have to adapt the differences from the land to the boat physically, and the long-tern observation with telescope. Also I have to learn how to distinguish the different levels of wave and the format of information recording.

        In the school speech, I can learnt the technique of speech and know more about educational information.

 

The second week of internship is a training week. I started to try entering the researched data about Chinese white and finless porpoise last week. That data can make me know the distribution of dolphin in HK waters. Also the press conference impress me very much that how a NGO to proclaim message to the public and the message from Samuel inspire me how to consider the poin the long-tern observation with telescope t of views of new policy of government, especially the tricky statements and the motivation.

 

        In the boat observation, I started to try do locating which is the long-tern observation with telescope and the recorder of data. For me, I think the difficulty is hold the telescope and search for dolphins for 30mins. The boat is instable which increases the difficulty on focusing and which is very exhausted. The solution is spending longer and longer time to adapt physical problems. And I think it would be solved very soon.

Invaluable Experience - Internship@HKDCS

This is my first entry on the HKDCS Intern's Blog. In just the first two weeks of the whole internship program, i have gained a lot of great experience which I never expected when deciding to apply this program.

In the first day of work, I came to the office early in the morning. After all the full time stuff came back, the doorbell rang again. I knew the person must be the other intern student. A boy or a girl? Can I get along well with him or her? A lot of question came to my mind. He is a boy. A boy who seems I met before. He sat down and introduced himself. His name is Nekky. Then I asked a embarrassing question, “What is your full Chinese name?”. He smiled and spoke out my full name. It’s just amazing! My intern partner is my primary school friend who I lost his contact for over 10 years! The fate leads me to join this internship program and leads me to meet my old friend! A great beginning of my internship!

In the next day, we started our land-based survey training on using Theodolite to track dolphins and boats. I started to experience the harsh working environment my colleagues always facing. I felt I was inside a microwave oven, heat and heat and burn. I really got sunburn! And this was just the second day of my 3-month internship program! I knew I may face even harsher working environment in coming weeks, but I am ready to overcome them!

The most important component of the research work done by HKDCS is the line-transect boat survey. This is a challenge to me because I get seasick easily. With the help of anti-seasick pills and auto-adaptation, I feel much better now when travelling on the boat now. I hope I can throw the pills away few weeks later. After 5 boat-survey trainings involved both off-effort and on-effort, I found that it is very difficult to discover the appearance of dolphins using telescope especially at high beaufort levels. It requires 100% concentration. I knew I missed sighting of CWDs when I was the primary observer in a true on-effort survey. I must put more effort on using the telescope.

Moreover, I also took part in educational talks and press conference. That's my first time to take part in a press conference. That really widens my horizon. Thought the press conference, I understood more about the drastic decrease of the number of CWDs and their worsening living environment likely caused by the increasing trend of high-speed ferry traffic, reduction of fishery resources and underwater noise. Also, it gave me an insight about the topic-in-the-limelight, the proposed 3^rd runway. But it left me a question, “How can we have win-win situation for economic development and conservation of environment?”.

Thanks to this internship program which provides me a great variety of experience. I am now very excited about the coming 3^rd week of internship life with my lovely colleagues and Nekky. I hope I can make continuous improvement of my performance and I am looking forward to experience more!

Last but not least, I really realize how bad my hand writing is! I must try my best to improve it!