mel ✨

Marine predators are cool 🦭 • @CSU_Ecology Extreme Physiology Lab MS student studying pinnipeds • @SeaverLMU alumna & McNair Scholar • 🇲🇽🇺🇸

[Jessie Williamson @jl_williamson]

World’s smallest falcon (22-25 g) and world’s largest hummingbird (~20-26 g). Amazing to see how form matches function. @NMNH

[みなと まち🐟️ @minato_nat]

陽虹の海🐬

[Dr. Ortiz, Process Chemistry-er @KCGOrtiz]

People from a public tour gazing into the labs like scientist aquariums: 👁️👄👁️

Me trying to hold my cracking sanity together as I shove months worth of work into weeks:

[Scripps Institution of Oceanography @Scripps_Ocean]

🐧 Emperor penguin chicks are leaping from a 50-foot Antarctic ice shelf — but why? Scripps Oceanography emeritus professor and research physiologist Gerald Kooyman, who observed these strange behaviors more than 30 years ago, shares more for @NatGeo.
https://t.co/hZIv04bMoY

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

How the land-to-sea transition influenced pinniped vertebral #evolution: https://t.co/Z4yjVqKHiL
#ProcB #OpenAccess @Alberto_MarSe @FractalBone @Kjonesthebones

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

You in September: “let’s finish these projects no later than the end of November, so we can all enjoy a restful December”

You in late November:

[Tim Casey-Clyde @TimCaseyClyde]

“Who are you wearing?” “thermo.”

[CSU Ecology FRSES 🌍 @CSU_FRSES]

🚨 It’s that time of the year again! Time to register and submit abstracts for the 30th anniversary of FRSES #frses2024 just go to https://t.co/oJ4SAbpY97 and register now, it’s that easy!

[mel ✨ @aniMELbehavior]

Beyond grateful to be able to attend as CSU Chapter President AND represent our awesome programs. Come chat with me and check CSU out at booth 808!! #2023NDiSTEM

[British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @BAS_News]

Fur seal numbers have been declining at Bird Island since 2009.

🦐 80% of their diet is Antarctic krill
🌡️ Krill are sensitive to temperature change
📉 Climate trends correlate with the changing population

Here's the full story 🦭
https://t.co/KGwNqmikfL

[Dr. Joshua Stewart @J0shStwrt]

What will recovering whale populations look like in a changing climate? So happy to see our paper on gray whale population dynamics out today in @ScienceMagazine! We show that gray whales go through major boom and bust cycles in response to dynamic and changing Arctic conditions.

[whalefact @awhalefact]

twilight (2008)

[Baeley🍉 @lovebaileyjo]

My job is just… lab

[WWT @WWTworldwide]

His job is beach

[mel ✨ @aniMELbehavior]

I don't care if I'm a grad student, I WILL be going back-to-school shopping*😤

(*wandering the aisles looking at folders and pens but not buying anything)

[Sigma-Aldrich @SigmaAldrich]

🤔

[Elisa Granato @Prokaryota]

Sorry I'm busy that day

[mel ✨ @aniMELbehavior]

@ScrapNaturalist @flir @WILDLABSNET We used flir thermal imaging cameras for our hummingbird night work and they are SO awesome!

[mel ✨ @aniMELbehavior]

Dreams do come true - I FINALLY get to do the amphibians lecture!!! 🐸🐸🐸🐸