Open ocean discoveries through partnerships with elephant seals 

Marine mammals undertake some of the most extraordinary migrations on the planet to eat and avoid being eaten. They make behavioral decisions based on the ecology of their prey and predators, all while keeping within the confines of their physiological limits. By attaching electronic instruments to seals and monitoring their survival and reproductive success with mark-recapture techniques, I will discuss how our lab group explores predator-prey interactions in the open ocean, and their implications for the future of long-lived vertebrates.