Study extra about a few of the unbelievable careers we now have right here at Georgia Aquarium.
Bailey Dawson
Supervisor of Schooling Packages and Operations
Hi there – My identify is Bailey Dawson and I’m the Supervisor of Schooling Packages and Operations right here at Georgia Aquarium. I’ve been working on the Aquarium for 2 years.
What impressed you to decide on this profession?
I’ve at all times labored within the training discipline. Nonetheless, I actually needed to do one thing completely different. I needed to have a possibility to influence pupil learners on a bigger scale. I additionally needed to supply college students with the flexibility to see and expertise the world and its oceans. Georgia Aquarium offers me the flexibility to perform all of this stuff and a lot extra. Every year, the training division is ready to attain some 200,000 youth by way of varied teaching programs, summer time camps, STEM Camps, and Schooling Partnerships.
What was your diploma/main in school?
Bachelor of Science in Well being Schooling from Alabama State College
Grasp of Schooling in Educational Expertise from Kennesaw State College
Schooling Specialist Ed.S. in Academic Management from Kennesaw State College
What are some belongings you do every day in your job?
Effectively, one of many stunning issues about my job is the truth that no 2 days are ever the identical. My day can consist of an entire vary of actions and adventures. Nonetheless, usually I take part in quite a lot of conferences that assist form the route and way forward for the Schooling Division. We will focus on issues similar to funding alternatives, acquiring training partnerships, in addition to the day by day operations of the division. My day can also be usually crammed with a lot of children. Every year we usually see upwards of 175,000-180,000 visiting college students and teams. Due to this fact, I additionally oversee the security of all of our employees and visiting college students.
What’s your favourite half about your job?
My favourite a part of this job is with the ability to see the enjoyment on the faces of each pupil that walks into GAI. Having the ability to witness youngsters expertise issues that I didn’t get to expertise as a toddler brings me a lot pleasure.
What recommendation would you give to anybody involved in the same profession?
My recommendation can be to maintain your choices open. You by no means know the place the smallest alternative will lead you sooner or later. There isn’t a direct path to happiness or success. You need to discover the trail that you simply need to take after which beat that path. Acquire as a lot expertise in varied conditions, as you may by no means predict what might enable you to alongside your journey.
What kind of training/coaching, technical data, or expertise is important for this sort of work?
Somebody would want a working data of the present formal training panorama. It’s essential to have an understanding of your audience. One must also be capable of apply State and Nationwide Science Requirements to the work that’s accomplished inside the division. Additionally it is essential to know STEM/STEAM and learn how to combine these practices into our on a regular basis operations.
What kind of pursuits, skills, and expertise would assist an individual to achieve success in your occupation?
Understanding formal and casual training. A working data of standards-based studying. Understanding twenty first Century Studying. Nice group expertise. Management improvement expertise. Understanding classroom administration. Skill to realize a rising data and understanding of marine science.
What’s your favourite half about working at Georgia Aquarium?
My favourite a part of working at GAI with the ability to work together day by day with the employees that works right here inside the constructing. I get pleasure from speaking and laughing with all of my co-workers right here at GAI. I’m motivated day-after-day by seeing the work that the employees does of their respective departments. The employees dedicates a lot time and vitality to permit the constructing to function with such effectivity.
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Kerry Gladish
Government Assistant, Mammals and Birds Registrar, and IACUC Administrator
Hi there – My identify is Kerry Gladish and I’m the Government Assistant, Mammals and Birds Registrar, AND IACUC Administrator right here at Georgia Aquarium. I’ve been working on the Aquarium for over 16 years.
What impressed you to decide on this profession?
Since I used to be a child, I used to be obsessive about sharks – whale sharks, particularly, have been my favourite. I used to be additionally fortunate sufficient to reside close to Sea World rising up, in order that was my profession aspiration- to get into animal husbandry. So far as changing into an Government Assistant, my inspiration was my children.
What was your diploma/main in school?
B.S. in Environmental Sciences
What are some belongings you do every day in your job?
My day by day duties embody organizing varied discipline actions for our analysis and conservation groups, coordinating inter-departmental communications, coordinating zoological operations and animal well being journey, and helping with administration wants. As a registrar, I’m answerable for assuring all record-keeping and governmental protocols are adopted concerning mammal and chook acquisitions and depositions. As IACUC administrator, I help the committee with software procedures, researcher coaching, and coordination of inspections.
What’s your favourite half about your job?
Typically I get the chance to take part in varied discipline actions, like free swimming with dolphins and helping with manatee well being assessments.
What recommendation would you give to anybody involved in the same profession?
In administration, I’d say hold your finger on the heart beat of the departments you’re employed for and step in the place you may assist. As an aquarist, get all of the expertise you may get. Whether or not that’s volunteering, internships, something you are able to do to get expertise and perceive the animals you’re employed with.
What kind of pursuits, skills, and expertise would assist an individual to achieve success in your occupation?
You must love the water and be comfy in it. Being detailed oriented and versatile may even enable you to to succeed, that goes for any job on the Aquarium. It’s additionally good to familiarize your self with no matter division you’re employed with.
What’s your favourite half about working at Georgia Aquarium?
The ocean is part of my soul and my old flame. I’m fortunate sufficient to have stored my connection to it all through my careers, and I’m equally fortunate to work with individuals who share the identical admiration for the aquatic world as I do.
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Sam Herman
Supervisor of Visitor Packages
Hi there – My identify is Sam Herman and I’m the Supervisor of Visitor Packages right here at Georgia Aquarium. I’ve been working right here for nearly three years.
What impressed you to decide on this profession?
Visiting aquariums after I was youthful bought me within the ocean. After going to highschool and exploring completely different marine biology choices I attempted an training internship at an aquarium on the Outer Banks. I fell in love with the concept of inspiring others to care concerning the ocean the identical means I did and determined that was the very best path for me. Now, 15 years later, that is the fourth aquarium at which I’ve interned or labored, and I nonetheless adore it!
What was your diploma/main in school?
I went to Northeastern College in Boston and majored in Biology with a focus in Marine Science.
What are some belongings you do every day in your job?
Day by day I be taught one thing new and get to unravel issues for my crew and our company. The much less glamorous facets of my day are issues like creating schedules, price range planning, and many conferences however these are all essential and play into the general success of the crew. I additionally get to spend time within the Aquarium educating each my crew and our company about our animals and the way we’re linked to the ocean.
What’s your favourite half about your job?
My favourite a part of my job is attending to be artistic in fixing issues. Georgia Aquarium is an enormous place and I’ve a big crew, so issues change on a regular basis. Particularly during the last 12 months, issues are altering continuously! I actually benefit from the problem of developing with options that profit the company, my crew, and the Aquarium general.
What recommendation would you give to anybody involved in the same profession?
Keep it up! The aquarium discipline, basically, is de facto aggressive and it will probably really feel troublesome to interrupt into it. It’s a discipline the place you actually should put your time in, however for those who’re devoted and affected person issues will work out.
What kind of training/coaching, technical data, or expertise is important for this sort of work?
The beauty of a division like Visitor Packages is that so long as you’re comfy speaking to the general public you could be profitable. A background in science is at all times going to be useful and coaching, or expertise in public talking, is nice however to get began on this discipline the fervour for the ocean and for educating others is de facto an important factor.
What kind of pursuits, skills, and expertise would assist an individual to achieve success in your occupation?
You must care concerning the ocean and it’s worthwhile to care about individuals. Robust public talking expertise, time administration, delegation, and adaptability are all expertise I depend on day-after-day. On prime of that, on this function it’s worthwhile to have an understanding of mission-based interpretation, which is a approach to mix the pursuits of our company with the mission of our establishment right into a enjoyable and academic expertise.
What’s your favourite half about working at Georgia Aquarium?
Georgia Aquarium is such a distinct expertise than working at different aquariums. It’s enormous, for one factor! We’ve animals nobody else has and we see extra company than simply about some other aquarium 12 months over 12 months. The chance to encourage that many company is de facto particular, and I believe we are able to have a huge effect due to that.
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Dr. Lisa Hoopes
Director of Analysis, Conservation and Vitamin
Hi there – My identify is Lisa Hoopes and I’m the Director of Analysis, Conservation and Vitamin right here at Georgia Aquarium. I’ve been working on the Aquarium for 11 years.
What impressed you to decide on this profession?
Since a toddler, I’ve at all times beloved the outside and the animals inside wild areas. Rising up in Michigan, my sister and I spent our summers on the lake with my grandparents, which cultivated a life-long love of the water. Watching documentaries with Jaques Coustous, Eugenie Clark, and Sylvia Earl made me need to be a marine biologist.
What was your diploma/main in school?
Bachelor of Science in Zoology, Michigan State College
Grasp of Science in Wildlife and Fisheries, Texas A&M College
Physician of Philosophy in Wildlife and Fisheries, Texas A&M College
What are some belongings you do every day in your job?
Design and take part in compelling analysis each on the aquarium and within the discipline, analyze knowledge, learn new analysis, share our analysis outcomes with our company and different scientists.
What’s your favourite half about your job?
Day by day brings one thing completely different. New inquiries to reply, new puzzles to be solved.
What recommendation would you give to anybody involved in the same profession?
Comply with your ardour. Speak with others who’re working in a scientific discipline you discover fascinating. Study extra concerning the completely different job alternatives inside your space of curiosity. Volunteer. Take that chemistry class you’ve been avoiding!
What kind of training/coaching, technical data, or expertise is important for this sort of work?
A masters or Ph.D. diploma are beneficial for positions inside analysis, as these applications educate the technical expertise required to assume critically and ask good scientific questions, accumulate sound knowledge and analyze it, and current your findings to the general public and scientific group.
What kind of pursuits, skills, and expertise would assist an individual to achieve success in your occupation?
A curious thoughts is a should! Scientists are curious concerning the world round them. Persistence. Scientists usually should repeat experiments or one discovering results in one other set of questions, and the cycle continues.
What’s your favourite half about working at Georgia Aquarium?
I’m fortunate to get to work with an AMAZING assortment of animals day-after-day, each onsite and within the discipline. It’s my dream job!
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Roger Montiel
Supervisor of Advertising Occasions and Partnerships
Hi there – My identify is Roger Montiel and I’m the Supervisor of Advertising Occasions and Partnerships right here at Georgia Aquarium. I’ve been working on the Aquarium for ten years.
What impressed you to decide on this profession?
My entire household is rooted in hospitality; my dad and mom and sisters have all labored for the airways. We’ve been a service-oriented household my entire life, so it was very pure for me to fall right into a hospitality function. Once I was at school I used to be a resident’s assistant and a corridor director, and after I left school and bought my first skilled job, I labored in pupil housing. The hospitality side of working with college students and their households is what I loved most. So when the chance got here for a job on the Aquarium, I naturally fell right into a hospitality function.
What was your diploma/main in school?
Bachelor of Science in Enterprise Administrator with a focus in Advertising and Promoting from the College of Miami
Masters in Schooling from Florida State College
What are some belongings you do every day in your job?
As a part of my function on the Aquarium, I am answerable for planning our revenue-driving and fundraising occasions. That features occasions like our Purple White and Brew, a well-liked program referred to as Sips Below the Sea, wellness actions like Yoga by the Water, and our kid-friendly actions like Toddler Time. My favourite exercise and program to plan is our New 12 months’s Eve get together as a result of it is such an enormous celebration the years we’re in a position to do it. It is loads of enjoyable, it is excessive vitality, we now have music, good meals and the company are actually right here to have an excellent time.
What’s your favourite half about your job?
After working right here for ten years, I’ve had the chance to serve in a number of completely different roles. I began as a sleepover employees member, then moved into managing the visitor applications crew, then the visitor providers crew and now I work with advertising occasions. I’ve actually loved attending to work in loads of completely different sides of the Aquarium and with loads of completely different groups that contain the general visitor expertise. One of the vital rewarding issues I’ve skilled is seeing these moments come along with our company. Whether or not that is a marriage, a wedding proposal, a birthday, and even simply celebrating an event like New 12 months’s Eve or Fourth of July, or having an excellent time on a Friday night time throughout a Sips Below the Sea occasion – seeing these moments lastly come collectively is simply so rewarding.
What recommendation would you give to anybody involved in the same profession?
My recommendation when you’ve got a ardour for hospitality and serving individuals, is to realize expertise. Whether or not that be working at a theme park, lodge, and even right here on the Aquarium. That have working and interacting with company provides you with the data to achieve any kind of service-oriented function.
What kind of pursuits, skills, and expertise would assist an individual to achieve success in your occupation?
Planning occasions is loads of particulars, so it’s a must to be actually detail-oriented and arranged. Whether or not that is coordinating meals, or leisure, or house. It is loads of enjoyable work, nevertheless it’s actually teamwork so you may have to have the ability to work with loads of different groups and coordinate loads of shifting components.
What’s your favourite half about working at Georgia Aquarium?
My favourite half about working at Georgia Aquarium is being part of particular moments in individuals’s lives. One in all my favourite recollections is, whereas we have been closed as a result of pandemic, we have been in a position to put collectively a reside Zoom session with our sea lions and a few children from Make-A-Want. We have been in a position to nonetheless grant a few of their needs of assembly a sea lion and their trainers, though they couldn’t come to the Aquarium. That was a extremely particular second as a result of, not solely did these children get a enjoyable expertise, however we have been in a position to really feel the enjoyment it dropped at them and their households throughout a tough time.
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Carly Pope
Senior Supervisor of Content material and Improvement
Hi there – My identify is Carly Pope and I’m the Senior Supervisor of Content material Improvement at Georgia Aquarium. I’ve been working right here for simply shy of ten years.
What impressed you to decide on this profession?
My enthusiasm for science and the pure world, coupled with my expertise for writing and communications.
What was your diploma/main in school?
Inventive Writing and Anthropology
What are some belongings you do every day in your job?
Day by day could be completely different! That’s one of many issues I like about this job. However I might say confidently that day-after-day I create new content material for speaking to the general public fascinating details about an animal and its conservation. This could be for an indication, an audio tour, or some other Aquarium medium. One other factor I do just about day-after-day is evaluation materials that will likely be utilized in visitor communications, for instance, Academic applications, to make sure it’s updated and according to our targets as an establishment.
What’s your favourite half about your job?
My favourite a part of my job is the second I see a visitor learn and perceive an animal signal or id I wrote. To see somebody be taught one thing new about an animal, and by extension, the world round them, by way of one thing you created could be very rewarding.
What recommendation would you give to anybody involved in the same profession?
Hone your writing and enhancing expertise, create and hold up-to-date a portfolio along with your work, and create ties with locations you’ll get pleasure from working by way of volunteering and internships! Don’t be afraid to intern or volunteer in a division or function that isn’t precisely what you’d wish to pursue – it’s at very least a foot within the door with different professionals, and doubtlessly might introduce you to a brand new ardour!
What kind of training/coaching, technical data, or expertise is important for this sort of work?
Technical/sensible expertise for writing and enhancing in many various mediums is essential. I might say an in depth second to that’s having a excessive consolation stage with shifting priorities and with the ability to steadiness a number of targets for any given challenge.
What kind of pursuits, skills, and expertise would assist an individual to achieve success in your occupation?
Curiosity within the always-changing nature of science, analysis and conservation, a ardour for communication, persistence and the flexibility to vary priorities on a dime.
What’s your favourite half about working at Georgia Aquarium?
Seeing the animals on a regular basis! Nothing beats attending to work early within the morning and strolling by way of the empty galleries, seeing all of your favourite animals swim by.
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