Tuesday, June 10, 2014

New website to track elephant seals!

Dan Costa's lab at UC Santa Cruz is attaching satellite tags
and time-depth recorders to 20 adult female elephant seals
at Ano Nuevo State Park to track their movements in real-time!

Please follow this link to view the live data (updated daily).

http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/?project_id=1000

 Live Tracking Data

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Novel egg data loggers deployed at Ano Nuevo!

Professor Scott Shaffer and a team of researchers developed
and deployed novel egg loggers to record the nest environment and
egg-turning behavior of seabirds on Ano Nuevo Island.

Check out their new publication!


Rhinoceros auklet update

Oikonos researcher Ryan Carle provides a nice summary of
the recent efforts to protect the rhinoceros auklet population
on Ano Nuevo Island.

Click here to read more!