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Category: Senior Thesis

  • Where are they now? Part VIII

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    Dakota’15 is spending her summer at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado on an REU grant (Research Experience for Undergraduates). Charlotte Dohrn’13  who wrote her senior thesis with me is following her passion for sustainable fisheries and is at the UW Fisheries Research Institute field camp on Lake Aleknagik, AK  helping to collect data on the run…

  • 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…

  • “Sea” You Later, Sea Ranch

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    On the morning of July 5th I departed Sea Ranch and made my 9-hour drive back to sunny SoCal. But before that, I needed to take care of a few things: 1. Pack. I still needed to pack that morning, which was not too hectic. Before leaving, I grabbed Jamie’s book, which I’ve started reading…

  • Jamie’s Grand Arrival

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    Saturday evening. It’s almost 9 pm and the sun has just set during a crisp summer night here in the Sea Ranch. I have only a week left and my replacement came two nights ago. The substitute: no other than the acclaimed seabird expert and recent Pomona graduate, Jamie . Even though he’s only been a…

  • My Morning Routine: GPI

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    “So Ramon, what DO you actually do over there at Sea Ranch?” This might be a question that readers have for me, given that I’ve never fully outlined what my day looks like here. And since I’ve talked about the PECOs that I survey every other afternoon, it’s time to talk about what my mornings…

  • Ramon’s First Public Hearing

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    Hi folks! Ramon here, and I’m still alive! Sophie has left me, and will soon be traveling to North Carolina to present her thesis. Best of luck Soph! Now that I am a lone wolf (at least, within my age range), I’ve been pretty busy with collecting and entering data, hence the lack of posts…

  • Pelagic Cormorants!

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    Ramon and Sophie here again! One of our many surveys here at the Sea Ranch include feeding surveys at Breaker Reach, where we watch 7 gorgeous Pelagic Cormorant pairs switch off “nest duty” so that while one is taking care of chicks or incubating eggs, the other is out in the water, “bringing home the…

  • We’ve Arrived!!!

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    Hey all! Ramon and Sophie, reporting all the way from The Sea Ranch, a gorgeous coastal expanse in Sonoma County. Here, we’ll stay for two weeks (and an additional 3 weeks for Ramon), conducting breeding, nesting, and behavioral surveys of the various seabirds that gather in the area. We arrived Thursday night to a lovely…