Current Research Projects

Navigation and diving abilities of elephant seal pups during their first ocean migration.

Validation of geolocation methods for deep diving vertebrates.

Validation of aerial mass estimation of elephant seals using drones.

Dive data for back-calculating foraging effort and success in elephant seals.

North Pacific isotope landscape using elephant seal whiskers.

Time-activity budgets of molting ice seals in human care.

Links between reproduction and molt phenology in Weddell seals.

Seal diving behavior to infer temporal and spatial variation in resource availability.

Stochastic dynamic programming model of harbor porpoise energetics.

Effect of field-based courses on undergraduate student success.