Research Assistant - Diving Science - Internship

Divers Alert Network (DAN) is a global organization, headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. As the leader in civilian dive safety research, DAN employs and collaborates with dive science experts to conduct research regarding all aspects of dive safety.The goal of training a SkillBridge participant at DAN will be to expand upon this person’s existing diving experience and knowledge and apply it to scuba diving research in physiology, population health, and accident investigation. This will include understanding how to generally do good research, independent of diving, primarily focusing on human subject research (e.g. ethical considerations and applications, data collection/storage, statistics). Then observe and participate in our ongoing research activities, with exposure to a range of projects, including the early idea stage, proposal writing, regulatory approval, data collection, data analysis, and manuscript writing/presentations. The goal for our SkillBridge team member is to find a good, long-term fit in our Research Department (preferred), another department in DAN, or another diving research-related field or organization.

As a SkillBridge Scholar at DAN you will gain a deeper understanding of diving physiology, dive injury monitoring, and current diving research efforts worldwide, learn to prepare, plan, conduct and communicate scientific experiments and take responsibility for your own research project, learn data acquisition and research techniques, engage with divers while collecting data in the field, and communicate DAN Research endeavors to the dive community at large.The DAN SkillBridge participant will work alongside a mentor at DAN Headquarters in Durham, North Carolina for 5-6 months. Participants will work 40 hours a week in person.