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Info on Marine Bio Major

Websites

Environmental Defense Fund research

Marine Mammal Rescue Center

Video

The Big Picture

Marine biologist Tierney Thys (Monterey Bay Aquarium) tags the Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish.

Robert Ballard on ocean exploration. Crittercam is a videocamera attached to ocean animals to observe their behavior. UCSC alum will showed this work April 5th at UCSC. See Costa and Fowler below.

Dolphins playing with bubbles

Audio

An amazing whale story (Realplayer required)***

Our Ocean World

'Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest' by Sy Montgomery (several chapters on audio)

Sea Slugs

List of UCSC departments involved in researching the ocean.

UCSC Alumni

Teresa Ish helps comsumers find sustainable fish.

Brock Dolman (College Eight '92, Environmental Studies/Biology), Director of The WATER Institute Ecologist Permaculture Program

John Francis, vice president of research, conservation, and exploration for the National Geographic Society works with Crittercam

Current Students

Melinda Fowler tags very large elephant seals

Hoyt Peckham studies endangered turtles

Allison Luengenstudies toxins in the ocean

Engineering students develop a coral reef monitoring system.

Faculty

Rachel Barnett-Johnson, a fisheries biologist, investigates salmon population.

Dan Costa and his students are tagging marine life to send back realtime information never before available. You can follow activities at TOPP and see Video from KQED's Quest

Global Warming research is being done by Christina Ravelo, a professor of ocean sciences and James Zachos, professor of Earth and planetary sciences.