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  • Intertidal Surveys!

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    This past week brought a new adventure for the Sea Ranch team! We (Jeffrey, Kyle, Nicole, and I) volunteered along with several other individuals to help with an intertidal survey conducted by  UC Santa Cruz’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department. Maya, Melissa, Karah, and Molly were our mentors throughout the project as the grad students…

  • Another (Nesting) Day at The Sea Ranch

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    Today we spotted our first BLOY egg! Hopefully there will be more to come and many new hatchlings. PECO nests aren’t too far behind either. And the day wouldn’t be complete without exploring a few tide pools.

  • SAGEHENS MEET THE SEA RANCH SEABIRDS

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    This summer four Sagehens (Jeffrey, Nicole, Leo and Kyle) are studying the seabirds breeding on the offshore rocks of the Sonoma coastline at Sea Ranch. The project started this past weekend with three full days of “bird boot camp” with Diane of the Madrone Audubon Society and Jim from the Bureau of Land Management introducing the…

  • END OF SEMESTER CELEBRATION FOR LAB

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    We had a great time celebrating the end of the semester. Gibson, the parakeet, was in heaven with a roomful of bird lovers!

  • Presenting Seabird Summer Research Results!

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    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…

  • 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…