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  • Where are they now? PART IV

    Where are they now? PART IV

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    Derek Buchner’08 was part of the 2007 field team that went to the Arctic to study little auks. He has continued to pursue his passion for birds and now works for the peregrine fund with CONDORS! There is more information about his work on this facebook page:www.facebook.com/CondorCliffs Nik Tyack’11 and Eleanor Caves’11 graduated this past…

  • Vigorous Video Watching

    Vigorous Video Watching

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    When you walk by the lab this summer you will see three students in a darkened room hunched towards computer screens. They are intently watching very compelling videos. The star of these movies are the Xantus’s murrelets that nest on Santa Barbara Island. Last summer Channel National Park biologists with the support of the Montrose…

  • 2011 Adventures on Santa Barbara Island by Jamie

    2011 Adventures on Santa Barbara Island by Jamie

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    Sea lion heads swivel as our boat powers up to their cliff-side colony. The captain alternates between forward and reverse, edging us closer and closer to the dock structure that clings precariously to the cliff face. A sea lion chorus arises as we clamber one by one up the rusty ladder onto the first level…

  • Gone Fishing

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    Written by Ali Corley On our last trip to Santa Barbara Island this May, we did an extra survey of fish abundancy and diversity on the Osborne shelf in addition to the usual bird observations and net tows on the regular transects.  Well, in other words, we spent several extra hours on top of the…

  • Wanted: A Pair of Sea Legs

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    written by Ali Corley This semester I joined Professor Karnovsky’s lab with the hope of being able to study birds and do field work in beautiful places.  I had just gotten really interested in bird ecology after a semester abroad in Costa Rica where I studied bird song in the sloping trails of the cloud…

  • A Day Aboard the R/V Shearwater

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    I had never been on a boat trip longer than a day before beginning field research aboard the R/V Shearwater, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a full kitchen area and sleeping quarters aboard, as well as tons of deck space for our CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth sensor) and net tow…

  • The Beautiful Brown Pelican

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    We often saw groups of Brown Pelicans flying in formation around both Anacapa and Santa Barbara Island during our voyage. These birds were everywhere! Pelicans prefer to nest on islands that are not inhabited by humans, making Anacapa and SBI prime nesting sites. Though featherless and helpless after hatching, immature Brown Pelicans grow quickly and…

  • Put Up Your Sticks

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    Once again, we had a great team on the flying bridge. From Left to right: Kristen (Pomona), Darryl Whitworth (California Institute of Environmental Studies), Augie (Pomona), Jen Boyce (NOAA, MSRP), Annie Little (Fish and Wildlife Service), Christie (Channel Islands Natl Park), Harry Carter (Carter Assoc.) Photo By: Nina Karnovsky (Pomona College). The dowels the boundaries…

  • The Fight for SBI

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    Our project makes up only a fraction of the Xantus’s murrelet and Santa Barbara Island restoration projects.  Many of the Channel Islands were disturbed by agriculture and ranching before they became protected. While the feral cats that preyed on the native, nesting seabirds are no longer there,   Invasive plants, however, still run rampant on the…