Principal Investigator

Roxanne Beltran 
roxanne@ucsc.edu; click here for CV
2020-    Assistant Professor               UC Santa Cruz
2019     Postdoctoral Researcher     UC Santa Cruz
2018     PhD                                         University of Alaska Fairbanks (defense video)
2015     MSc                                         University of Alaska Anchorage (defense video).
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The Beltran-Costa lab group, Fall 2021. 

Researchers

Salma Abdel-Raheem
​Field/Lab Technician
Claire Nasr
​Field Technician
Dr. Taiki Adachi
​Researcher

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Dr. Keith Hernandez
​co-advised with Carlos Garza
Dr. Joffrey Joumaa

Graduate Students

Flo Vilches
Fulbright Fellow (Argentina)
Co-advised with Dan Costa
Danial Palance
​co-advised with Elliott Hazen
Allison Payne
​co-advised with Elliott Hazen

 Undergraduate Students
and their superpowers
Jean-Marc Beddow
Thermal drones
Ishana Shukla
​Sleep in mammals
Xaun Wilson
Thermal drones
Doris Duke
Raquel Lozano
Seal molt
Maia Smith
Seal behavior
Cara Munro
Killer whales+salmon
Diana Alvarado
Drones
STEM Diversity
Sarah Wood
Citizen science
CAMINO
Christina Langford
​Crittercams
Alex Yuen
​Programming
Laura Christianson
Stable isotopes
Meghan DeCoite
Mark-recapture
​CAMINO

Elephant seal researcher/trainee cohort 2021 !

Avalon Conklin, Cara Munro, Astarte Brown, Conner Hale, Raquel Lozano, Hannah Jackson, Shay Amster, Allison Coughlin, Katie Felberg, Wade Matern, Natalie Storm, Bella Garfield