Call of the Beachmaster

UC Santa Cruz science-communication student Nala Rogers put together a great summary of the work being conducted by the Reichmuth lab, part of the dissertation of Caroline Casey.  Follow the link below for an in-depth description of the research that is beautifully illustrated.

http://sciencenotes.ucsc.edu/2015/pages/seals/seals.html

Brandt's Cormorants raised at Ano Nuevo Island

The Brandt's cormorants at Ano Nuevo Island have spent the past

few months rearing chicks and they will soon fledge.  Here is a video

taken by Pat Morris on August 18th, 2015 showing how the adults

feed the chicks:

New research on the role of vocal cues in elephant seals!

New research by UC Santa Cruz Researcher Colleen Reichmuth and graduate student Caroline Casey give us a glimpse into the acoustic world of male elephant seals!  Their work is an extension of a project done by Burney LeBoeuf many years ago when the Ano Nuevo elephant seal colony was quite young.

CLICK HERE for a detailed description of their recently published findings.

Real time elephant seal tracking!

This is an exciting time for Dan Costa's team at UC Santa Cruz.
Satellite tags and time-depth recorders are being attached to
elephant seals at Ano Nuevo AND San Nicolas Island.  Please
follow this link to see the latest data and track these seals in real
time over the next 8 months!

http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/?project_id=1100

Elephant Seal Research on TV!

Jeff Corwin filmed an entire episode of his show "Ocean Mysteries" at Ano Nuevo.  This episode, focused on UCSC Professor Dan Costa's elephant seal research program, will air on Saturday May 1st on ABC.  It will also (eventually) be available on-demand at Hulu.com:  http://www.hulu.com/ocean-mysteries
Be sure to catch this exciting view into the research happening at Ano Nuevo!

New website to track elephant seals in real-time!

The researchers and volunteers in Dan Costa's lab at UC Santa Cruz are busy deploying satellite tags, time depth recorders, and a variety of novel tags to study the at-sea behavior of northern elephant seals.  You can track their movements in real time over the next few months during their "short" post-breeding migration.

Click here to see the tracking data!

Data From a Weanling's First Trip to Sea!

Last spring we deployed a satellite tag and time-depth
recorder on a weanling seal for his first trip to sea.  After
exploring the California and Oregon coastlines for a few
months, the seal returned to Ano Nuevo and we recovered
the instruments.  Here is a first look at the data from this
seal's first trip to sea:

The satellite-tracking data:





The development of diving depth:

Development of diving duration: