Costa Lab Research in the News

CBS News: Elephant Seal Sets Distance Swimming Record

San Luis Obispo Tribune: Tag retrieved from elephant seal at San Simeon

The Washington Post: The mating game secrets and bloody rivalries of the giant elephant seal

Science: Seal blubber sheds light on deep-sea contaminants

Wildlife Nation: The Power of Pinnipeds

Great Big Story: Mission Wild

USA Today 360: Encounter with Elephant Seals

Coyote Peterson: Elephant Seal Research Mission!

BBC: Super Giant Animals

TEDX Talk by Dan Costa

Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin

This winter, Jeff Corwin and his crew came out and filmed our northern elephant seal field work at Año Nuevo State Park.  You can watch the full episode on Hulu.

Jeff Corwin and two graduate student researchers, Sarah Peterson and Sarah Kienle, are standing  in shallow water on the beach near an adult male elephant seal. They are monitoring an animal being handled for instrument deployment.

KQED Quest

The KQED Quest series has produced several short videos on work done by our lab, including our northern elephant seal research and other work lead by Dan around the world, particularly in the Antarctic.

Dan Costa: Why I do Science

Field Notes from Antarctica