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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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Grad school: pandemic edition
By Lauren Cooley, MLML Vertebrate Ecology Lab I think it’s safe to say that before the start of this year, no one could have possibly predicted the truly wild twists and turns of 2020- and the year isn’t even over … Continue reading
Posted in Grad Life, Research, What's Happening at MLML
Tagged student life, Vertebrate Ecology Lab
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The SODA Project (no calories, all marine science)
MLML researchers recently participated in a collaborative research project orchestrated by the Office of Naval Research to study stratified ocean dynamics in the Arctic (SODA). Two seas were examined for this project, the Beaufort and Chukchi seas; with the MLML team … Continue reading
Posted in Fieldwork, MLML Around the World, Oceanography
Tagged Arctic, Research, student life, surveys
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A Day on the Water Tagging Whales
Brijonnay Madrigal of the Vertebrate Ecology lab authored this post on whale tagging as part of Dr. Gitte McDonald’s Marine Mammal class blog series. Tagging marine mammals is a highly difficult procedure and a skill that requires extreme … Continue reading
MLML Students at the Forefront of Marine Science: Will Fennie, Ichthyology Lab
Whether it be out in the field or inside the lab, conducting research is often what people imagine as the highlight of science. However, once that research is completed, then what? For many scientists, it’s the impact of their research that … Continue reading
Posted in MLML in the News, Uncategorized
Tagged fish, ocean acidification, Research, rockfish, student life
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The Slippery Seaweed Commando Crawl to Glory
Recent Invertebrate Zoology graduate Amanda Kahn completes the kelp crawl challenge during a past MLML Lab Olympics competition. It has been said MLML students never graduate because we keep having too much fun…but Amanda proved it’s possible to do both!
Posted in Just for Fun, Surviving Grad School, What's Happening at MLML
Tagged seaweed, student life
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