UTD Journal Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2014 | Page 5

We look forward to offering this training program to our volunteer divers in 2013. Some of them have even quick started their learning process by getting UTD Essentials training through Brian and Jeanna. They then only have to complete the balance of their scientific academics to become Seattle Aquarium Scientific Divers. Conservation awareness in the Pacific Northwest dive community is strong and local divers are seeking ways to contribute to efforts to document and understand our aquatic ecosystems. Introducing the aquarium’s one hundred twenty volunteer divers to this course will give them the tools they need to make meaningful contributions to research done by the Seattle Aquarium, educational and research institutions and citizen science organizations throughout the region. TM