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There will be 9 students presenting at the 25th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, including:
-Stella Raymond – Polar pelts: Morphology and thermal function of the pelts of Weddell seals -Liv Springer – Development of apneustic breathing in northern elephant seal pups -Kenzie Davidson – The northern elephant seals of Piedras Blancas: a story of recolonization, movement, and monitoring -Maria Lopez-Neri – How does a lobster trap modification for sea otter exclusion affect the catch rate of California spiny lobsters? -Katie Saenger – Movement of weaned northern elephant seal pups during their first at-sea foraging migration -Kate Riordan – A novel comparison of southern sea otter fur buoyancy across ontogeny -Adelle Wilkin – Temporal variability of cetacean presence off California’s central coast -Molly Murphy – Novel characterization of adult female northern elephant seal pup attraction calls. -Hayden Dillon – Relating male dominance rankings to aggression behaviors and copulations in a polygynous breeder, the northern elephant seal.
