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Nicole Teutschel is a student researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has been a part of the tagging effort of northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris, at Año Nuevo State Reserve since 2006. Nicole’s own research addresses the high mortality rate of young northern elephant seals, and how this trend relates to early diet. Nicole is assessing these diet differences by analyzing stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes in vibrissae (whiskers) of known individuals at Año Nuevo State Reserve. This analysis will yield the mean trophic level at which juvenile elephant seals are foraging. In other words: where these young predators fit into the Pacific marine food web.

Currently, Nicole is continuing her research at Año Nuevo while working for TOPP doing social media outreach and education.

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Education and Outreach Coordinator for Social Media at TOPP, Student

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University of California Santa Cruz, Tagging of Pacific Predators