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Jennifer Brandon (CCE), “Plastic Pollution: Myths, Facts, and How You Can Help”: Presenting a popular but poorly understood topic to broad and diverse audiences.

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Maitreyi Nagarkar (CCE), Temporal Dynamics of Microbial Plankton Diversity at a Long-Term Ecological Monitoring Site.

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Ali Freibott (CCE), Patterns of phytoplankton diversity and mortality due to grazing across trophic gradients in the Southern California Current.

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Sloane Viola (SBC), The Role of Disturbance, Larval Supply, and Native Community on the Establishment of a Non-Native Species on Oil Platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel.

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Sometimes surveying coral is shallow enough to just snorkel.

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The author with cinderblocks “planted” with young coral.

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The author motoring out to the reefs.

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A vibrant coral reef ecosystem in Moorea.

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Another example of what my pitfall traps look like after a bear encounter.

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Mom and two cubs crossing the road near one of my field sites.