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  • Wrapping Up At Sea Ranch

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    Hi All, Today is my last day collecting data at Sea Ranch–the weather is very foggy and a little bit rainy. I think Seattle might be sending its weather down here, telling me it’s time to head home. Here is a photo from this morning at GPI N that shows the fog and the difficulties…

  • Update From Sea Ranch!

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    We have a chick! On June 17th, the first Pelagic cormorant chicks were seen at Breakers Reach at Site E, nest #4. There appears to be at least 3 chicks, but may be four. Two days ago (June 26th), I saw the first chick at Site C, which is the site I am doing feeding…

  • Where are they now? Part XI

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    Sagehens with Albatrosses! Both Kristina McOmber’12 and Nai de Gracia’14 are working on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge! Here they are fixing a gapped band of a black-footed albatross. Albatross are so long lived that they need their bands re-closed if they start to develop gaps in order to last the next several decades.  

  • Wrapping up an AMAZING summer!

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    Hi everyone, I just wanted to say THANK YOU to all of the wonderful people who made this summer so spectacular, especially Joel Llopiz and everyone in his lab! Joel was SO generous and made space for me to bring in and work on a new project in his already very busy lab. Also happening in…

  • A regular Sea Ranch day and many thanks!

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    Hi all! I’m still at Sea Ranch with my family but Kyle, Leo, and Jeffrey went home yesterday and our field work is done!  For a while I’ve been meaning to upload a “day in the life of” type post where I describe one of our normal days, so here it is even if it…

  • Behind the Scenes: The Sea Ranchers

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    Here are just a few sneak peeks into what goes on in the quest for blog material and research data. Jeffrey and Kyle taking photos of some type of cliff rodent. (The hats are part of the process too!) (Me) doodling caricatures of the nesting pelagic cormorants. Field research means field sketches too right? Jeffrey…

  • Seabird/Woodrat Selfie Challenge!

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    Mimi passed on the selfie challenge to me, and after a bit of a Wifi mishap yesterday here it is! Here’s Kyle and I during our survey of Gualala Point Island, which you can see along with our scopes behind us! I pass the torch on to Leo!

  • SEABIRD/WOODRAT SELFIE CHALLENGE!

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    So, I have been tasked with beginning a selfie challenge in which you take a selfie in the lab/field and then pass the torch on to another person in the Karnovsky lab! This is me and my darling otoliths. You can’t tell, but this one is totally making a duck face in honour of this…

  • Otoliths!

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    So, I’m up to my ears in otoliths (pun intended). I’ve gotten a decent way through sorting all of them and picking out a pretty representative sample from each season to put in immersion oil, and I’ve finally started taking pictures of and ageing the otoliths that I put in oil last week and the…

  • Night Owls

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    Well only some of them are actually owls… Great horned owl attempting to bore holes into the camera with its eyes Barn Owl (This is the first time we’ve seen owls in the project so far!) Rabbits staring into the distance contemplatively… What is life? What is love? Woodrat looking very guilty… Of being adorable Coyote…