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Have you ever wondered what being a marine biologist is really like? Well then you’re in the right place! Welcome to The Drop-In, a blog run by the students of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in beautiful central California. In January 2021, The Drop-In moved to a new location on the MLML Student Life Website.Search the blog
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Marine science snapshots: Fieldwork, wildlife, and community at Moss Landing Marine Labs
By Lauren Cooley, MLML Vertebrate Ecology Lab While working on the latest Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Annual Report, my friend and fellow MLML student employee Caroline Rodriguez collected a bunch of amazing photos from the Moss community. While she used … Continue reading
Posted in Cool Creatures, Fieldwork, Grad Life, Research
Tagged Vertebrate Ecology Lab
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Marine snow & climate change
By Annie Bodel, MLML Plankton Ecology and Biogeochemistry Lab Endings are Beginnings In a forest when something dies–a leaf, a plant, an animal– it likely settles onto the ground where it begins a process of decay and integration into the … Continue reading
A glimpse into the shifting community structure of a Southern California kelp forest and the benefits of long-term monitoring
By Lauren Parker, MLML Ichthyology Lab I can’t tell you how much I miss spending the majority of my day underwater. It’s difficult to communicate the feeling it gives you; the feeling that you have somehow been given the opportunity … Continue reading
Living among emperor penguins: 2019 field expedition to Antarctica
by Parker Forman, MLML Vertebrate Ecology Lab Transcript of radio chatter from the penguin scientists at Camp Crozier 13:15 hrs on November 15th 2019: Markus: Gitte and Parker ……. This is Markus ……. Do you copy? Gitte: This is Gitte and Parker … Continue reading
Posted in Cool Creatures, Fieldwork, Research
Tagged Antarctica, penguins, Vertebrate Ecology Lab
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How does pollution ‘coral’ate with coral bleaching in American Samoa?
By Melissa Naugle, CSUMB Logan Lab & MLML Invertebrate Ecology Lab You may have heard stories about the Great Barrier Reef and coral reefs worldwide that are succumbing to ‘coral bleaching.’ Maybe you’ve seen the pictures of stark white corals … Continue reading
Improving soil health on farms: better for the farmer, better for the planet
by Stefanie Kortman, CSUMB Haffa Lab My research in sustainable agriculture practices was born from two passions: my love of food and my concern for protecting and preserving natural resources. I came into my role as an agricultural scientist in … Continue reading
A picture is worth a thousand words: using underwater photography to predict coral reef recovery
By Caroline Rodriguez, MLML Invertebrate Ecology Lab & CSUMB Logan Lab If you have seen photos of coral reefs, you probably agree that coral reefs are beautiful, colorful seascapes. Coral reefs are indeed picturesque, but they are also extremely important … Continue reading
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Tagged coral, field research, Hawaii, invertebrate
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CSI: Marine Mammal 🐋 – A day in the life of an MLML stranding responder
By Lauren Cooley, MLML Vertebrate Ecology Lab The hotline rang at 2pm and I quickly ran across the lab to grab the phone, excited to find out what new adventure awaited me. “Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Stranding Network, this is … Continue reading
Kelp and Piscos in the Southern Sun
This week’s post was written by Ann Bishop of the Phycology Lab as a companion to the recent post about the Global Kelp Systems course. While both Chile and Monterey are dominated by kelp, they are not identical. Part of … Continue reading
Habitat Mapping: Investigating Potential Impacts of the Soberanes Wildfires to the Big Sur Coastline
By: Jessie Doyle, Gilbert Mak, and Katie Szelong To wrap up our coverage of the Habitat Mapping class projects, this week’s post walks us through an investigation of the ways in which wildfires can impact both the physical condition of … Continue reading
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