A5108903663- Water resources management and optimization
- Marine animal studies overview
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Career Development and Diversity
- Animal testing and alternatives
- Mathematics Education and Programs
University of California, Santa Cruz
2024-2025
The open ocean twilight zone holds most of the global fish biomass but is poorly understood owing to difficulties measuring subsurface ecosystem processes at scale. We demonstrate that a wide-ranging carnivore—the northern elephant seal—can serve as an sentinel for zone. link basin–scale foraging success with oceanographic indices estimate abundance five decades into past, and future. discovered small variation in maternal amplified larger changes offspring body mass enormous first-year...
Archival instruments attached to animals (biologgers) have enabled exciting discoveries and promoted effective conservation management for decades. Recent research indicates that the field of biologging is poised shift from pattern description process explanation. Here we describe how biologgers been - can be used test hypotheses challenge theory in behavior ecology through three case studies many short examples. These examples, spanning predator-prey interactions, state-dependent...
Biologging best practices have been carefully considered since the field’s inception six decades ago. The biologging research community has reduced instrument impacts on study animals by miniaturizing devices, employing sophisticated release mechanisms, and developing novel technological advancements. However, field still needs standardized for balancing data quality animal welfare across scientific process, from design to deployment reporting. We developed a set of guidelines reviewing over...
Long-term studies are critical for ecological understanding, but they underutilized as inclusive opportunities training ecologists. We use our perspective from the Año Nuevo elephant seal programme along with surveys community members to propose that long-term could be better leveraged promote education and professional development in ecology. Drawing on experiences mentors mentees, we demonstrate how can their resources, including rich data, robust logistics extensive networks, improve...
Passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is forcing recognition crisis management in small community systems much earlier than condition would have been recognized normally.