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Tech On the High Seas: Teaming Up With Animals to Transform Ocean Exploration

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June 2, 2026

12:00 pm to 12:45 pm EST

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Tech On the High Seas: Teaming Up With Animals to Transform Ocean Exploration

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Tech On the High Seas: Teaming Up With Animals to Transform Ocean Exploration

Join us as we explore how putting tech on marine life is revealing their hidden lives like never before! The Beltran Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz studies how environmental change shapes animal movement, behavior, physiology, and population dynamics in marine predators. The lab is led by Roxanne Beltran, Explorer’s Club 50 awardee and National Geographic Young Explorer.

Technological advances in animal-borne sensors are transforming our ability to study life in the open ocean, revealing remarkable variation in how individual animals move, forage, reproduce, and respond to environmental change. In this talk, we will highlight how the Beltran Lab combines six decades of long-term research on northern elephant seals with biologging, environmental data, and demographic approaches to understand the traits and behaviors that influence fitness and population resilience.

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June 2, 2026

12:00 pm to 12:45 pm EST

Grade Level: 4-8

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