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Contents
Background
Our Elephant Seal Movie Clips
These short Quicktime and MPEG video
clips are here to support your teaching.
Links
to information on Northern Elephant Seals
education, migration, physicology, research,
skulls, toxicology
Links to information on Southern Elephant Seals
animations, Australian, Italian and British
Research Groups, metabolic calculations, human impacts
Curricula
The Core Lab
This computer lab exercise is designed
to familiarize students with the web site (especially the
image archive) and to demonstrate the seasonality of elephant
seal reproduction.
Elephant Seal Reproduction
These five classroom activities help students
discover that life is harsh for an elephant seal, and reaching
reproductive maturity is chancy - the odds are against it.
Students will gain insight into what forces shape elephant
seal aggression, the dynamics that form an elephant seal
population, and the dangers that face young seals.
Elephant Seal Adaptations
This module introduces students to the
methods scientists use to study the physiology of the large
and cumbersome elephant seals on land and at sea.
Imagery
Good set of Elephant Seal Photos
Large digital photos for classroom use.
CSUMB Radio Cam at Año Nuevo
9am to 5pm Pacific Standard Time - check
if seals are there now.
CSUMB Elephant Seal RadioCam Archive
Over 70,000 JPEG images from a marginal
rookery at Año Nuevo collected since April 10, 1999,
and arranged by day in a cumbersome UNIX archive on science.csumb.edu/seal
- Allow some time to load as there are over
900 days represented on the first page.
Research Photos from Dr. Paul Webb
Some basic behaviors and research techniques
recorded by Dr. Webb at Año Nuevo.
Maps
Virtual Reality Model of Año Nuevo
an elephant seal rookery with sound and
animation.
Northern Elephant Seal Rookeries
maintained by CSUMB student Kristi West...
contains excellent photos taken by Kristi and other researchers
at Año Nuevo and Piedras Blancas
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