Cetacean Field Work Update, Summer 2023
This summer 2023, Costa Lab graduate students Haley Robb, Theresa Tatom-Naecker, and Florencia Vilches received UC Santa Cruz EEB Department summer funds to support their field research efforts. Read more about their adventures below! Sampling humpback whale blubber and hormones in Juneau, Alaska – Haley Robb This summer, I traveled to Juneau, Alaska, to collect data for my dissertation. My fieldwork primarily takes place in Maui, where I study the reproductive physiology and behavior of…