The Claisse Lab (current and former students) celebrated

Matt & Daniel completing their theses!

Ella & Hailey show

off a fish they'll be dissecting.

Natalie shows how

our lab processes sonar data to quantify artificial reef habitat characteristics

James stereo-videos

a 4m high relief module on the Palos Verdes Restoration Reef.

Casey loves

Panama

Whitney holds

a delicious live prawn when working for her CSU COAST summer internship.

Matt explains

how fish assemblages vary with artificial reef construction material

The Claisse Lab stops

for a photo on the continental divide in Panama

Chelsea injects tetracycline

as part of her study to validate annual ring formation in Garibaldi otoliths (inner ear bones used for aging).

The Claisse lab cruises

through Bocas del Toro Panama

James, Jacob and Austin

conduct fish habitat use surveys on the LA Habor breakwater.

Mantas swim

a little close...

Matt, Brenda, and Maggie

get certified to breath air with more 02 in it.

Jacob, Gabby, Jeremy & Austin

were in the mouth of a Great White Shark!

Natalie, Brenda, and Maggie

are happy to be diving in the Northern Channel Islands

Matt shows off

a millipede?

Jeremy, Ben and Chelsea

in front of the Hilma Hooker shipwreck in Bonaire.

Matt, Casey, Smith Lab folks

& Taylor (US Forestry Service) use a pink filter.

Ben carefully lifts

a Pacific ELECTRIC Ray (Tetronarce californica) caught in a trawl during BIO4820L Biology of FIshes.

Jacob records

Garibaldi gut contents data for his thesis research on spatial and habitat variation in their diets.

Maggie and Brenda train

doing kelp forest monitoring scuba surveys out at Catalina.

Lab door

is decorated

James and Austin

return from doing stereo-video surveys of fish on the PVR

Daniel tells

Matt what to say when presenting his poster.

Gabby processes

a Garibaldi stomach (pre-COVID - they smell bad) under the watchful eye of Jacob, while John watches and learns.