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Principal Investigator

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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 (
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2015     MSc                                         University of Alaska Anchorage (
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Lab members, click here to request a Letter of Recommendation.
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The Beltran-Costa lab group, Fall 2021. 

Researchers

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

Post-Doctoral Researchers

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

Graduate Students

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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

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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
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Diana Alvarado
Drones
STEM Diversity
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Sarah Wood
Citizen science
CAMINO
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Christina Langford
​Crittercams
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Alex Yuen
​Programming
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Laura Christianson
Stable isotopes
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Meghan DeCoite
Mark-recapture
​CAMINO

Elephant seal researcher/trainee cohort 2021 !

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