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
Day: January 13, 2025
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