I received my Bachelor's of Science from Sonoma State University in 2017. In my undergraduate work there I assisted in research on Sudden Oak Death in the California Bay Laurel and was a research assistant in the Vertebrate Endocrinology Lab with Dr. Dan Crocker where I first began working with Northern Elephant Seals. After my undergrad, I volunteered briefly with Wildtracks Belize were I worked with Black Howler Monkeys and Antillean Manatees in a rehabilitation setting. I volunteered for two years at the Marine Mammal Care Center, Los Angeles in San Pedro, California where I worked with California Sea Lions, Northern Elephant Seals, and Harbor seals as an animal care volunteer. I then received my Master's of Science from Sonoma State in 2022, again working in Dr. Dan Crocker's lab with a project investigating adipose-derived hormones in Northern Elephant Seals. I was then a field technician with the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz where I assisted with research on physiological and behavioral responses of Northern Elephant Seals to both natural and anthropogenic disturbances. I just started my PhD in Dr. Dan Costa's Lab with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCSC. Currently, I am planning to continue the kind of research I have been doing as a field tech, stress physiology in elephant seals.
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