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Today, my capstone group members, and our mentor, Dr. Brenton Spies once again got the opportunity to survey sites for northern tidewater goby ( Eucyclogobius newberryi ) presence/absence, population numbers, microporidia presence, and more. Today was our second foray into Santa Barbara County, but we surveyed sites into Ventura County as well. We got to a total of 5 sites, bringing our total sites surveyed up to 22 different sites! This is very exciting and should yield us a

Yesterday, on Saturday, February 5th, 2026, I got the opportunity to once again, survey for northern tidewater goby ( Eucyclogobius newberryi ) presence/absence, abundance, microsporidia presence, and more at sites in Santa Barbara County. Our previous forays into the field had been limited to the Los Angeles/Ventura Recovery Unit in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. This trip marked our first data collected in the Conception Recovery Unit, which spans from San Luis Obispo Co

On Friday, December 12, 2025 I and my Capstone group commenced our second field day surveying for northern tidewater gobies ( Eucyclogobius newberryi ) presence, occupancy, and various other habitat and biological metrics. We surveyed four sites, all within the LA/Ventura recovery unit. While we did not find any tidewater gobies today, we did encounter a number of California native species such as juvenile arrow gobies ( Clevelandia ios ), juvenile starry flounders ( Platicht

November 7-9th, 2025: This weekend I got the opportunity to go to the Western Society of Naturalists 2025 meeting in San Diego with my Coastal and Marine Resource Management class. Our class attended this conference to present our class data from the coastal opinion polling we had conducted throughout this fall semester. I was a lead author and presenter of our poster during poster session 2. Seeing my name on the program and the poster was really incredible, and getting to p

October 17th, 2025: Today, my Capstone group and I were afforded the incredible opportunity to survey Tidewater Goby populations in the LA/Ventura tidewater goby Recovery Unit. We surveyed four sites in Los Angeles County, taking water quality, tidewater goby population numbers, submerged aquatic vegetation presence, presence of other species, and microsporidia parasite presence. I am incredibly humbled and grateful for the opportunity to take part in such an important projec