I may have been slacking on a new post but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been checking up on our tagged sea lions any less than normal. It’s kinda a fun ritual to come in to the office in the morning (I have no internet at my house) and see where everyone is…and then…Continue Reading It’s all about the Sanctuary…
Category: California sea lion – Año Nuevo Island 2015
Week 3 – The end is in sight
The start of this week did not look promising as the weather kicked up over the weekend and we had some large swells come in. The waves don’t look like much, but they are much larger when you are on the water trying to navigate in a small zodiac. If the swells are too big…Continue Reading Week 3 – The end is in sight
Week 2 – Data!
We just finished our second week, and it was another successful one! We are over halfway to our target sample size and we managed to put out 2 of the remaining three satellite tags. We also managed to opportunistically disentangle a juvenile elephant seal who had rope wrapped around his neck. All in all….another great…Continue Reading Week 2 – Data!
California sea lions – 2015 Año Nuevo Island
I am rolling out our first ever field blog for the Costa Lab with some sea lion field work we just started at Año Nuevo Island yesterday! The field effort is being led by researchers from UCLA to understand the dynamics of Leptospirosis outbreaks in California sea lions. Leptospirosis is caused by a bacteria and is a zoonotic disease,…Continue Reading California sea lions – 2015 Año Nuevo Island
Week 1 – October 1, 2015
The day started out early, as most field days do! Año Nuevo State Park is only about a 20 minute drive from our lab at UCSC, but I had some last minute checks to do on the satellite tags to make sure they were ready to be deployed. Año Nuevo Island, which unlike the…Continue Reading Week 1 – October 1, 2015