Matthew, Brenda and Whitney

embrace life on Catalina Island during the AAUS scientific diving course.

Chelsea injects tetracycline

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

James and Austin

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

James stereo-videos

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

Jacob, Gabby, Jeremy & Austin

were in the mouth of a Great White Shark!

Jacob records

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

Brenda drives

the boat with intensity.

Gabby holds

a large clam

Ben carefully lifts

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

Whitney holds

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

Austin heads out

to the LA Harbor breakwater to collect data for his thesis research.

We crouched awkwardly

to not block Akaka Falls.

Garibalid (Hypsypops rubicundus)

were captured alive using barrier nets, tagged and released as part of Chelsea's thesis research.

Matthew rests peacefully

on a break between dives on Catalina during the AAUS scientific diving course.

Jeremy, Ben and Chelsea

in front of the Hilma Hooker shipwreck in Bonaire.

Jeremy holds a

Pacific Seahorse (Hippocampus ingens) caught as part of a Vantuna Research Group fisheries inventory survey of San Deigo Bay.

James, Jacob and Austin

conduct fish habitat use surveys on the LA Habor breakwater.

Matthew operates

a small boat as part of the MOTC course.

Gabby processes

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

Albino Yellow Tang

(Zebrasoma flavescens) are very rare along the Kona Coast of Hawaii, but unique color patterns made them "naturally tagged" in the movement study.

Brenda completes her

PADI Advanced Open Water certification with a nice photo!

Matt holds

a mullet we caught in a beach seine.

Brenda poses

with her coconut (James and Whitney also pictured).

Gabby, Brenda, John

and Sandra (CPP snail lab) on a weekend scuba certification course to Catalina through the BRIC, and Jacob was the divemaster!

James and Austin

are masked-up doing field work during the pandemic.

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