Hi there!
I’m a PhD candidate in the Beltran Lab at UC Santa Cruz.
My current projects use long-term demographic datasets, passive acoustics, and bio-logging to study the ecology of marine predators. Read more about my research, or explore my individual projects.
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz
PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | present
San Francisco State University
MS in Interdisciplinary Marine and Estuarine Science | 2022
University of California, Berkeley
BA in Cognitive Science | 2016
Selected work
Reproductive success and offspring survival decline for female elephant seals past prime age. Payne, Czapanskiy, Kilpatrick, Robinson, … & Beltran. 2024. Journal of Animal Ecology.
Oceanography’s diversity deficit: Identifying and addressing challenges for marginalized groups. Abdel-Raheem*, Payne*, Rivera*, Sturdivant, … & Beltran. 2023. Oceanography.