Category: Channel Islands
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Andreah’22: Art, Biology and Citizen science!
Andreah is a talented biologist and artist! Read a recent article about her senior thesis. If you have 10 – 20 minutes, take the survey she is conducting. SURVEY LINK
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Planting Halos
Once upon a time, during the spring bloom, you could have looked out onto the Channel Islands from the Southern California coast and seen one island with what would have appeared to be a bright yellow halo around it. That island, Anacapa, is angelic no more. But let me back up a little. A few…
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? PART XII
Nik’11 who studied how the distribution of seabirds varied around Santa Barbara Island for his senior thesis, is finishing his Master’s degree in Economics at the Univerzita Karlova, in Prague, Czech Republic. He is doing the important work of environmental economics. He has managed to combine his interests in biology, botany and economics! Nik made…
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All Present at Pomona Valley Audubon
We were invited to share our bird related research at the Pomona Valley Audubon March meeting. So much fun to present our research to fellow bird enthusiasts! Birds of a feather…..
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Pacific Seabird Group 2015!
In February, we presented at the annual Pacific Seabird Group conference. While there we met Kristina’12 and alum Steve Hampton. Sagehens were well represented! A shout out to the PARENTS who attended the meeting! Thank you for your support! Nicole’s parents are pictured above and Mimi and her Mom are below.
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Where are they now? Part VII
Here are a few more updates from recent grads. Nikki’13 who worked on the murrelet project counting zooplankton, spent the last year having all sorts of tropical wildlife adventures and is off to veterinary school in the fall! You can read about her amazing year here: Nikki’s blog Rose’14 was a student in my…
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Where are they now? PART IV
Derek Buchner’08 was part of the 2007 field team that went to the Arctic to study little auks. He has continued to pursue his passion for birds and now works for the peregrine fund with CONDORS! There is more information about his work on this facebook page:www.facebook.com/CondorCliffs Nik Tyack’11 and Eleanor Caves’11 graduated this past…
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Vigorous Video Watching
When you walk by the lab this summer you will see three students in a darkened room hunched towards computer screens. They are intently watching very compelling videos. The star of these movies are the Xantus’s murrelets that nest on Santa Barbara Island. Last summer Channel National Park biologists with the support of the Montrose…
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2011 Adventures on Santa Barbara Island by Jamie
Sea lion heads swivel as our boat powers up to their cliff-side colony. The captain alternates between forward and reverse, edging us closer and closer to the dock structure that clings precariously to the cliff face. A sea lion chorus arises as we clamber one by one up the rusty ladder onto the first level…
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SUMMERS of FEATHERS and FUN
An article has just been posted about summer “vacation” with pictures of Augie, Kristen and Charlotte: http://www.pomona.edu/news/2010/08/16-summer-vacation.aspx