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On May 17th, with the suburban packed to the gills, we made our way to Santa Barbara harbor to load the R/V Shearwater. This time we had Augie Lagemann’10 with us. Augie is a biology major at Pomona College. He…
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Murrelets in the Spotlight
         After dark all the murrelets come back to the island to socialize and rest from a long day of feeding. Not only do they have to watch out for hungry sea lions, but also our fearless crew of bird-netters!…
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Pursuing Plankton
Every few kilometers we stop the ship to put our zooplankton net in the water. We want to see what kind of zooplankton (the main food for Xantus’ murrelets and Cassin’s auklets) there is in the top 50 meters of…
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In Search of the Xantus’ Murrelet
The most important part of our study was counting seabirds and marine mammals around Santa Barbara Island. We repeated surveys along the transect lines originally done by G.L. Hunt, Jr. in 1976. Whenever the boat was underway, we recorded all…
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Sagehens at Sea!
On April 24th, Kristen’10 and I boarded the R/V Shearwater to begin oceanographic surveys around Santa Barabara Island. The R/V Shearwater is the research vessel of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. The purpose of this project is to assess the…
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Gearing up!
Lately the lab has been filled with crates, boxes and bottles as we gear up for the 2009 field seasons. This spring and summer we will be investigating the diving behavior of Cassin’s auklets on the Farallon Islands, avian diversity in…
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