Experience

Año Nuevo Field Shift Log Dive Logs

Field Research Experience

  • Beltran Lab | 2021 - Present

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 | Summer 2023, 2024

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 Nikka Malakooti, a PhD student in the Kroeker and Kilpatrick labs, conduct surveys to quantify the distribution and abundance of diseased urchins to understand disease spread within the reef.
  • BIOE 159 (Marine Ecology Field Quarter) | Fall 2023
  • BIOE 128L (Large Marine Field Vertebrates Field Class) | Spring 2022
  • BIOE 161L (Kelp Forest Ecology Field Course) | Fall 2021

Science Communication

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

  1. Beltran RS, Lozano RR, Morris PA, Robinson PW, Holser RR, Keates TR, Favilla AB, Kilpatrick AM, Costa DP. (2024). Individual variation in life-history timing: synchronous presence, asynchronous events and phenological compensation in a wild mammal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2335

  2. Payne AR, Czapanskiy MF, Kilpatrick AM, Robinson PW, Munro CM, Ong K, Bastidas A, Negrete AO, Theders B, Stillwell B, Coffey D, Schweitzer E, Baugh E, Salazar J, Chau-Pech K, Rodrigues M, Chavez M, Wright S, Rivas S, Reiter J, Costa DP, Beltran RS. (2024) Reproductive success and offspring survival decline for female elephant seals past prime age. The Journal of Animal Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14226

  3. Condit R, Reiter J, Morris PA, Oliver GW, Robinson PW, Costa DP, Beltran RS, Le Boeuf BJ. (2024) Inherent versus random variation in fitness of elephant seals: offspring quality and quantity. Canadian Journal of Zoology. https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjz-2023-0166

Wet Lab Experience

  • Beltran Lab | 2022 - Present
  • BIOE 159 (Marine Ecology Field Quarter) | Fall 2023

Tagging an Oscellated wrasse for the Alonzo Lab’s research

Programming/Software Experience

  • JMP | 2021 - Present
  • R and RStudio | 2022 - Present

Volunteer Experience

  • OdySea Aquarium | February 2017 - September 2018

Feeding Rabbit the Harbor seal :)

Club And Community Involvement Experiences

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