San Diego Coastkeeper believes that we all have a right to live in a clean and healthy environment and we all have a responsibility to join in our environment's stewardship. After all, our environment is where we live. Protecting our watersheds, bays, and shores should be taken as personally as the health of our family, the safety of our homes, and the well being of our neighborhoods. San Diego Coastkeeper encourages citizens to take an active role in protecting our water.
Want to have fun, meet new people, learn new skills and help out a great organization?
We have an opportunity waiting for you. San Diego Coastkeeper is in need of volunteers for the following positions:
Become a Lookout
You can volunteer on your free time by acting as our eyes and ears to protect our coastal waters by reporting suspicious activities to law enforcement authorities, such as the U.S. Coast Guard and Harbor Police. If you own and operate your own boat, kayak, bike, car or feet, and wish to use these to contribute to Coastkeeper's efforts, we can train you how to conduct patrols that you can carry out on your own.
How to Report Suspicious Activity
Community Based Social Marketing in La Jolla Shores
Community Based Social Marketing is a social science approach to uncovering barriers that inhibit individuals from engaging in sustainable behaviors and seeks tools that are effective in fostering and maintaining behavior change. We have completed the first phase, observation phase, of our research in La Jolla Shores. We now need volunteers to begin the second phase which seeks to identify social barriers to the polluting behaviors that were uncovered by our observation data by completing door to door residential surveys. We are looking for volunteers that would be interested in this phase of the research. There will be a short but thorough training session provided prior to the studies. Be outside; enjoy our beautiful coastline, while feeling good about helping to keep San Diego's beaches clean! As the project progresses we will also be performing further observations to identify prevalent polluting behaviors in other watersheds such as Chollas Creek and Clairemont.
For more information about this project, and if you would like to sign up for this opportunity, pleased send an email to Sarah Blakeslee at sarah@sdcoastkeeper.org. For more information about Community Based Social Marketing, please visit www.cbsm.com.
Mission Bay Outreach Volunteers Needed - Available Immediately
Do you visit Mission Bay regularly and have concerns about
clean water and public health?
Gain valuable experience this summer as a San Diego Coastkeeper Outreach Volunteer
We are looking for motivated and outgoing volunteers to participate in a targeted pollution prevention outreach program in Mission Bay. We will be conducting outreach, beach clean-ups and working to develop an integrated strategy for working to prevent pollution and protect public health for visitors to Mission Bay throughout the summer.
This volunteer opportunity will require a commitment of several four-hour blocks through the course of the summer (beginning June 29th, continuing through end -September) in addition to periodic team meetings.
The ideal candidate will: