Tuesday night at Patagonia headquarters Dr Clare Steele, Michaela Miller and I presented our Pervasive Plastics research to the Ventura Surfrider chapter. The rise above plastics campaign from the national surfrider foundation is directly inline with our overall project of removing plastics from our sandy…
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VC Reporter story on Pervasive Plastics was published today about Dr. Clare Steele’s library talk on plastics in our environment and my research on the discovery of microplastic ingestion by Sand crabs.
Reporters are continuing to cover our work on documenting the magnitude of plastic pollution across our world ocean and the potential impacts from all this unintended petroleum waste, both macro and micro. This week our CSUCI team headed over to downtown Ventura for a presentation to the general public on what we have found to date…. Read more »
The Surfrider meeting was a success! For not knowing what to expect and being a liiiiiittle nervous, I’d say it was a pretty good turn out! Everyone was super nice and I am so happy we got the opportunity to share what we’ve been working on. I hope more ESRM students can present some of … [Read more…]
Last semester, I placed five cameras on Santa Rosa Island to detect non native rodents. I have been unable to check the cameras since late October, but the batteries in each camera will last up to six months. Last time I was able to check, much of the local wildlife had been captured. Thankfully, no … Continue reading Update (2/1/2016)
As of today I have sample populations of Sand crabs from 16 beaches processed and will be sharing this data at the Surfrider meeting Tuesday evening. I have been lucky to find 6 undergraduate students that are interested in working…
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The Spring semester has just begun and research is getting back into full swing. Over the break I was scheduled to depart to Santa Rosa Island for a week. Unfortunately the weather had different plans and with multiple craft advisories and high seas the trip was scraped. My partner was able to attend the second … Continue reading Update 1/31/16
The Santa Barbara Environmental Defense Center’s 2014 challenge to Interior’s policy of offshore fracking with limited public notice has met with success by the courts. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and Bureau on Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) have agreed to re-analyze the environmental dangers of offshore fracking, with their environmental impact assessment of the process/policy to… Read more »
In Fall 2015, I started my capstone project on vegetation distribution on Water Canyon Watershed on Santa Rosa Island. Prior to this project, I knew a very minimal amount of plant species. I spent many days both on the main land and island researching and learning different plant species. The beginning of the semester was … Continue reading Brief Overview of My Research and Winter Break Recap →
As embarrassing as this is, it was a very valuable lesson for me so I thought I’d share a careless mistake I made during my research. Before this week long trip, I’d prepared a Plant Identification Chart with photos from Calflora.org and CalPhotos.Berkeley.edu and descriptions of those plants. The one problem I overlooked with this … Continue reading Learning From Mistakes
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