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Biscayne National Park
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Volunteer Roger Boone helps a Family Fun Fest participant learn about marine archaeology.
PHOTO BY PARK VOLUNTEER THOMAS M. STROM
Volunteer Roger Boone helps a young Family Fun Fest participant learn about marine archaeology.

Whether you are retired and looking for a way to give back to the community, a college student looking for valuable career experience, or someone actively working and just looking for an occasional change of pace, there are opportunities for you as a volunteer at Biscayne National Park.

Volunteers fill a variety of roles in the park, including:

  • providing visitor information at the Dante Fascell Visitor Center
  • counting and measuring fish at area marinas to provide important data that will help ensure sustainable fisheries
  • roving the park's islands in a boat providing visitor information
  • working with kids and families at the park's award-winning Family Fun Fest
  • serving as a resident host onboard your own boat at Boca Chita Key
  • participating in one of several yearly cleanups to help remove some of the many tons of debris that wash onto park shorelines

Visit our Volunteer Position Descriptions page

Visit our Volunteer Application Forms page

Visit our Critical Volunteer Needs page

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Coral Nursery Club
Volunteer to help care for and document Biscayne's coral nurseries.
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Internships
The Student Conservation Association
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 Family Fun Fest parents demonstrate how tides work.
Family Fun Fest
Learn about the park's award-winning program.
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The Sweeting Family  

Did You Know?
For 50 years, four generations of the Sweeting family thrived on Biscayne National Park's Elliott Key. Here they raised pineapples, salvaged wrecked ships, went to school, worshipped and played at the northern end of Florida's Keys.

Last Updated: August 17, 2009 at 16:17 EST