The San Juan Archipelago is ecologically important to numerous marine bird species. The Pelagic Ecosystem Function Apprenticeship has conducted Fall surveys in this area since 2006. This study took place in the San Juan ...

The Salish Sea, an area of complex oceanography and bathymetry, supports a number of apex cetacean species. In the last decade, anomalous sightings of cetaceans have become more frequent and shifts in species abundance ...

I investigated the affect of ontogeny on the structure and function of pre-opercular spines. By measuring how these spines matched up against the standard length of the animal. Spines were surgically removed from ...

While the use of accelerometers in the aquatic environment becomes an increasingly used tool in remotely observing animals; however, the data obtained from deploying accelerometers still needs better understanding. ...

This study analyzes the diets of Lontra canadensis populations on San Juan Island, Washington. It tests the hypothesis that the majority of river otter diets, in the populations studied, is composed of fish and crustacean ...

As global biodiversity continues to decline greater attention is being paid on ways law can be a mechanism to advance conservator efforts. Currently, southern resident killer whales are listed ...

The San Juan Channel (SJC) lies within the Salish Sea between Washington state, USA and British Columbia, Canada. As an estuary, the physical oceanographic conditions of the SJC change constantly over small and large periods ...

Hagfish are marine chordates that, despite lacking jaws, are able to feed on large, tough carcasses with the protraction and forceful retraction of toothplates. Using muscle stimulation experiments, we studied the function ...

Drift algae are an important resource in marine food webs and undergo a vital change in chemical composition during the degrading (or aging) process. I investigated the effects of aging algae and different species of algae ...