Stress Case

The marine mammal research community has spent the past two decades debating the cause of Steller sea lion population decline in the North Pacific, but one hypothesis in particular has attracted much attention and debate...
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January 18, 2010

Decisions, Decisions
There comes a time each year in every Steller sea lion’s life when it must go without food. But exactly how sea lions pull through in times of decreased energy intake has long been a mystery to scientists. Recently, however, a group of Consortium researchers shed new light on the decisions sea lions make when allocating energy during times of food shortages.

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November 18, 2009

Time Flies When You’re Tagging Seals

The field season has now drawn to a close and Consortium research teams returned home. But before they traded the Bering Sea for highways, traffic lights, and of course, data compilation, we caught up with Chad Nordstrom and Brian Battaile to find out how they fared.

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October 29, 2009

Scat Science

Aiming to improve upon traditional methods of reconstructing pinniped diets, Consortium researchers recently integrated cutting-edge DNA technology into a conventional method of analyzing scat samples — and proved that a little change can indeed be a good thing.

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September 16, 2009