Karnolab

Category: Farallon Island

  • An update from the lab

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    So starts my 6th week working on my programming project. I’m currently working on putting my programs together so that whole files of data can be analyzed automatically when imputed into the interface I’ll be designing later this summer. The challenge is finding patterns in the file that allow the program to understand when a…

  • Python in the lab!

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    Hi all!  I’m Nicole, a rising Pomona fourth year, and this summer I’m working with data on the diving patterns of Cassin’s auklets in the family Alcidae.  These sea faring birds budget their energy and time depending on prey availability, and the feeding needs of themselves and their chicks.  Auklets also demonstrate different types of…

  • Where are they now? Part VI

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    Eleanor’11 who might remember from her 2009 posts from the Farallones Islands where she collected data for her senior thesis, is currently working on her PhD at Duke University. She writes, “I’m focusing in on a PhD topic regarding convergent evolution in signaling and phenotypes in cleaner shrimp.  I’m interested in why cleaner shrimp have such…

  • Where are they now? PART IV

    Where are they now? PART IV

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    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…

  • pictures!

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    So… I haven’t posted in a while… sorry! Things have been incredibley busyyyyy BUT i have pictures for you to make up for my absence! Our schedules have been very crowded with Murre Diet Watch! This is the map of the study plot we look at for Diet Watch.  Each number represents a mate pair…

  • Chicks are everywhere!

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    To say the last few days have been busy would be quite the understatement! Having 4 people do what essentially 6 people were meant to do can really make for a busy schedule. Since Katrina’s absence, I’ve picked up her daily task in doing the noon weather and taking the surface sea temperature.  The noon…

  • And we are 4

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    Today there was a lot of excitement on the island – but not cheerful excitement.  Katrina, one of the other interns on the island, had to leave the island today for emergency medical reasons.  She didn’t have any work-related accidents or anything severely serious, but had been having appendicitis-like symptoms and the medical practictioners she…

  • what’s your favorite band?

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    Yesterday, we had some VIP’s come visit the island and get a very thorough tour from Pete!  Jane Lubchenco, head of NOAA visited the island with an entourage of about 6 people, including the head of PRBO Ellie Cohen, the manager of the Farallon Island Wildlife Refuge Gerry McChesney (through US FWS), director of all…

  • This isn’t Bodega Bay

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    I thought I’d try to get a few pictures for today’s blog post! So every day I watch “X plot” to try to confirm breeding sites.  This means I watch a specified area of the cliff where Common Murres tend to hang out every day during the breeding season, and record which birds have used…

  • PIGU diet watch!

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    The past few days here on the Farallones have been really foggy! We’ve also had a few visitors – a pod of at least 8 humpback whales started hanging out near the southeast side of the island yesterday and seem to have been here today as well.  Katrina describes them well – she says its…