Our docents provide guests with information on our animals and their habitats. Exhibits include our sea lions, beluga whales and penguins. Duties: Relay accurate, consistent, and quality information about MA and its collection to guests of all ages. Docents must be friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable. Docents assist in monitoring the safety of our visitors and animals.

Qualifications: Be willing and able to work one half-day shift per week for at least 6 months. Must be able to work at both indoor and outdoor exhibits. Enjoy working with the public. Enthusiastic and outgoing personality. Comfortable speaking with a microphone to our guests. Must be willing to participate in education sessions by staff. Some experience in biology and public speaking is helpful.

Husbandry volunteers enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and learning about the care of our mammals, birds, fish, and invertebrates. Volunteers in these areas get the opportunity to do some hands-on work such as care and maintenance of animals & exhibits (cleaning, food preparation, operation of life support systems), record keeping, and assisting with presentations and classes.

Qualifications: Be willing and able to work a full 8 hour shift once per week for at least 6 months. Ability to lift 50 pounds, work on your feet, and function as a part of a team. Must be willing to participate in education sessions by staff.

Mystic Aquariums garden volunteers assist with maintaining the grounds and planters across campus. The season for this role is from April to October.

Qualifications: Must be willing to commit to one 2 hour shift per week. (Subject to change based on seasonal work load.) Ability to lift 25 pounds, stand, kneel, bend, and reach.

Education volunteers assist our education team with various roles, including regional conservation and outreach, on-site and off-site educational programming and much more. These volunteers also support our staff at our summer camps.

Qualifications: Enjoy working with the public and children. Enthusiastic about environmental conservation efforts. Comfortable interacting with the public. Volunteers for our summer camps must commit to one full camp week.

Our dive program is an occupational dive program which requires well-developed teamwork, with each worker assigned a task or a number of tasks as part of their role. Your recreational dive training is a prerequisite to our occupational dive program. In addition, our volunteer divers must represent Mystic Aquarium in a professional, courteous, and knowledgeable manner. (Only weekday shifts are currently available.)

Qualifications: Able to make required dive commitment by diving twice a month for six months. Ability to lift 50 pounds. Must show proof of 40 logged dives (a logged dive is considered to be in open water for 20 minutes or more and a minimum of 15 ft.). SCUBA certification at Advanced Open Water Level or above by nationally recognized training program (NAUI, PADI, SSI, SDI).Current First Aid and CPR, AED and Oxygen Administration certifications by recognized agency. Must pass Mystic Aquarium’s written dive exam with a minimum score of 80%. Must pass mandatory dive physical and have recommendation from physician. Must pass required swim test and SCUBA evaluation. Please note, final acceptance into the Volunteer Dive Program will be made at the discretion of the Dive Safety Officer (DSO).