My advisor Dr. Roxanne Beltran and I led a class of 14 undergraduate students in designing and executing this project connecting basin-scale oceanography to elephant seal fitness, allowing us to use elephant seal success to monitor the twilight zone.
The work was published in Science in February 2025, with all fourteen undergraduates as coauthors. Click here to read the paper and here for a short interview on CBC’s Quirks and Quarks.
Seals as Sentinels Infographic by Allison Payne