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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…
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Where are they now? Part XI
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…
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POSTER PALOOZA Part III
The summer undergraduate research program (SURP) poster session was held yesterday and Jeffrey, Kyle, Leo, Mimi and Elika presented posters. Jeffrey presented his poster twice that day, the second time was at a dinner to thank…
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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…
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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…
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A regular Sea Ranch day and many thanks!
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…
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Behind the Scenes: The Sea Ranchers
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)…
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Poster Palooza Begins!
Now that the summer field season is coming to an end, the poster presentations are beginning! Elika presented her research comparing the vertebrates in burned and unburned coastal sage scrub at the biology department end of summer poster session. Elika’s…
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Seabird/Woodrat Selfie Challenge!
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…
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Increasing the taxonomic diversity of my photos
I’ve received reports that some people feel like my photographs are not representative of the taxonomic diversity here at The Sea Ranch. Some people have claimed that my blog posts are still an “old birds club,” “yet another example of the rampant speciesism…