Best Practice Recommendations

New Paper in a Nutshell: Best practice recommendations for the use of fully implanted telemetry devices in pinnipeds. Horning et al. 2017

Spectacled Eider Duckling Update

Our first spectacled eider ducklings hatched around Summer Solstice and we have been rocking ever since trying to understand the effect of salinity on duckling growth!

New milestones in southern sea otter conservation

A collaboration between the Alaska SeaLife Center, Monterey Bay Aquarium, and the Marine Mammal Center is enhancing the conservation of sea otters in the North Pacific Ocean!

Introducing Steller sea lion pup: KULIAK

Kuliak, a male Steller sea lion pup was born on June 22, 2017! Learn about the ASLC breeding program and how this is helping us learn about the reproductive physiology of adult female Steller sea lions.

Training Arctic Seals to Save Ice-Dependent Species

Check out this new video to learn about the type of information being learned about ice seals from our collaborators at the Long Marine Lab, University of California Santa Cruz, and how this knowledge will help us better understand their health and physiology.

Pills and x-rays

The Pills If this sounds like a medical story, it is not. The pills in this case are stomach temperature pills. Stomach temperature pill (STPs) are telemetry devices we use to record or transmit the stomach temperature in an animal. But why would we want to know the temperature in an animal’s stomach? When the […]