Experience

Año Nuevo Field Shift Log Dive Logs

Field Research Experience

Recovered tags from our Piedras Blancas seal! Each year the Beltran lab tracks seals on their post-breeding and post-molting migrations using biologgers.
  • Raimondi-Carr Lab, PISCO | 2023

Heading out for a long day of diving! As a PISCO technician I conducted over 50 dives within five months to contribute to a long-term study designed to understand the California Current’s marine ecosystem and how it may be changing over time.

An urchin with black spot disease. I helped Dr. Nikka Malakooti conduct surveys to quantify the abundance of diseased urchins to understand disease spread within the reef.
  • US Geological Survey (USGS) | 2023

In June, I spent five days on a dive boat to conduct algae, invertebrate, and urchin surveys at San Nicolas Island!
  • BIOE 159 (Marine Ecology Field Quarter) | 2022
  • BIOE 128L (Large Marine Field Vertebrates Field Class) | 2022
  • BIOE 161L (Kelp Forest Ecology Field Course) | 2021

Science Communication

To improve accessibility and engagement with the Beltran Lab’s ongoing research I create plain language summaries of research articles for Año Nuevo docents. So far I have covered these papers:

  1. Beltran, Lozano, Morris, Robinson, Holser, Keates, Favilla, Kilpatrick, Costa. (2024). Individual variation in life-history timing: synchronous presence, asynchronous events and phenological compensation in a wild mammal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 10.1098/rspb.2023.2335

  2. Payne, Czapanskiy, Kilpatrick, Robinson, Munro, Ong, Bastidas, Negrete, Theders, Stillwell, Coffey, Schweitzer, Baugh, Salazar, Chau-Pech, Rodrigues, Chavez, Wright, Rivas, Reiter, Costa, Beltran. (2024). Reproductive success and offspring survival decline for female elephant seals past prime age. The Journal of Animal Ecology. 10.1111/1365-2656.14226

  3. Condit, Reiter, Morris, Oliver, Robinson, Costa, Beltran, Le Boeuf. (2024). Inherent versus random variation in fitness of elephant seals: offspring quality and quantity. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 10.1139/cjz-2023-0166

Wet Lab Experience

  • Beltran Lab | 2022 - Present
  • BIOE 159 (Marine Ecology Field Quarter) | 2022

Tagging an Oscellated wrasse for the Alonzo Lab’s research!

Programming/Software Experience

  • R | 2022 - Present
  • GitHub | 2024 - Present

Volunteer Experience

  • OdySea Aquarium | 2017 - 2018

Feeding Rabbit the Harbor seal :)

Club And Community Involvement

  • Rachel Carson College Council
  • Women in Science Society
  • Student Union Assembly
  • Student Organization Funding Advisory Committee