Together, Costa lab members attended a number of different research conferences in 2024! See some of the highlights! In March 2024, current and former Costa Lab members attended and presented at the 8th International Bio-logging Science Symposium in Tokyo, Japan. (Left to Right) Top: Florencia Vilches, Arina Favilla, Gitte McDonald; Middle: Carey Kuhn, Autumn-Lynn Harrison,…Continue Reading Conference Recap 2024
Year: 2025
Assessment of the Cumulative Effects of Multiple Stressors on Marine Mammals– Elephant Seals as a Model System
In 2021 our lab began a collaborative project to investigate the cumulative effects of multiple stressors in northern elephant seals funding my the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP). How an animal survives, grows, and reproduces within its environment is influenced by its response to intrinsic and extrinsic stressors. Intrinsic stressors can arise from…Continue Reading Assessment of the Cumulative Effects of Multiple Stressors on Marine Mammals– Elephant Seals as a Model System
Caspian Seal Expedition
In winter of 2023, Dan and then PhD student Arina traveled to Kazakhstan, joined by Katie Prager, veterinary disease ecologist from UCLA, to spend 4 days on the Caspian Sea searching the ice for the endangered and endemic Caspian seals. Dan Costa, Arina Favilla, and Katie Prager (from left to right) standing in front of…Continue Reading Caspian Seal Expedition