Category: Senior Thesis
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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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Wrapping up an AMAZING summer!
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…
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POSTER PALOOZA Part II
Mimi presented her summer research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute’s Summer Undergraduate Poster Session. She gave a great two minute talk! For the rest of the poster session she was surrounded. It was really exciting that her Mom and Dad were able to see her in action! I was very proud too!
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Where are they now? PART X
Nola Shi’15 has sent an update on her postgrad research adventures in Oregon! “We finished up our woody riparian and wet meadow point counts. We basically trudged 6-8 miles through marshland (nothing like water and cow poop sloshing around in your hiking boots for several hours!) and through fields with grasses taller than I am…
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Otoliths!
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…
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Officially started at WHOI!!!
Hi Everyone!! Monday was my first day of work here at WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). Let me just say that Woods Hole is AMAZING! It’s so beautiful, the weather is perfect (most of the time… there’s a storm coming in now and the power keeps going out). But here is a picture from Monday…
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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 IX
Kristina’12 who studied Cassin’s auklet diving behavior for her senior thesis, has continued to pursue her passion for birds and remote islands after she graduated. She spends her summers working with the Puffin Project on islands off the coast of Maine and lately has been studying passerines with the Biodiversity Research Institute. http://www.pressherald.com/2014/09/21/a-bird-in-the-hand-is-hopefully-healthy/
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Presenting Seabird Summer Research Results!
Last week students shared their summer research at the Pomona College Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Session. Nicole’15 shared her work creating computer programs to analyze diving data in her poster, “Automating the Analysis of Cassin’s Auklet Diving Patterns Using Time-Depth Recorders and Python Programming.” Ramon’15 presented his poster on the study he carried out at Sea…