Join Clear Blue Sea
Become A Clear Blue Sea Volunteer
Becoming a Clear Blue Sea volunteer will help you build your skills and the skills of other volunteers/interns. You’ll provide pro-bono assistance to improve Clear Blue Sea’s environmental impact. Get involved with opportunities to share your knowledge, mentor, and more.

Get your Colleagues and Family Involved
Bring your colleagues and family members to work together on a common goal. Bring them to Clear Blue Sea for an experience that’s sure to inspire and unify. Contact us to see how your business can work with Clear Blue Sea.

Internships Provide Challenging Work For Students
Clear Blue Sea has an extensive Internship Program that provides students with opportunities to participate in performing our water clean up mission.
We have internships in robotics, engineering, public relations, sustainability, marketing, fundraising, website development, social media, outreach, business, education and many more.
We welcome students in high school through Graduate school.
Internships are volunteer positions with some providing academic credit. Occasionally some internships are paid based on grant requirements and donor requests.

Professional Development Benefits
We provide training and experience a variety of fields from ocean conservancy and sustainability to engineering, robotics and business. All work is done in a collaborative team environment.
We provide letters of recommendation and serve as job references for both volunteers and interns to support your career development.

How do I sign up?
We are so grateful for your interest joining our team! To help streamline the process and to ensure you are a good fit, we are requesting key information in the form below which facilitates our determination on what specific projects and teams are optimal for you at Clear Blue Sea. We also request you provide a resume with this information. The form should not take more than 10 minutes.
Available Positions
KPBS Features Article on Clear Blue Sea’s STEM Student Internship Team
KPBS visited Clear Blue Sea at our USD Mini FRED Demo Day in Mission Bay. The USD team demonstrated enhanced capabilities of data communication and autonomous navigation on their 6-foot [...]
Meet Susie Baer of Clear Blue Sea (with SDVoyager)
Learn more about the founding of Clear Blue Sea and our mission through an SDVoyager interview with our Executive Director, Susie Baer. Click the button to see the full story. [...]
Herbivore Botanicals Contributes Profits to Clear Blue Sea
Herbivore Botanicals does more than just sell ecofriendly skincare products – they also support nonprofits which are committed to conserving the environment. This year, Herbivore Botanicals made a $15,800 donation [...]
Will FRED the Robot Help Clean Our Oceans of Plastic Pollution?
VMWare’s Pop Culture Tech Podcast featured Clear Blue Sea to discuss their Floating Robot for Eliminating Debris (FRED) for collecting marine debris in response to the ocean plastics crisis. Listen [...]
Clear Blue Sea is a Winner in the Goldman Sachs Analyst Impact Fund Competition
Goldman Sachs awarded Clear Blue Sea $2500 for being in the top 25 of nonprofits assessed and advocated for by 975 GS analyst teams around the world. This year was [...]
January 2021 Newsletter
Happy New Year! We hope that everyone's year has started off bright. We are very grateful for the support raised through our "Save the Warehouse" fundraiser and we are excited [...]