{"id":3498,"date":"2026-06-01T12:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:36:52","slug":"celebrating-recent-awards-and-scholarships-in-the-vel-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/2026\/06\/01\/celebrating-recent-awards-and-scholarships-in-the-vel-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Recent Awards and Scholarships in the VEL Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aleah Corbo<\/h3>\n
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Aleah has received the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories' WAVE Scholarship<\/a> and the Myers Award from the Dr. Earl H. Myers and Ethel M. Myers Trust. These awards will help support her work investigating the seasonal variation of southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) raft size, distribution, and abundance in Elkhorn Slough.<\/p>\n

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Jessica Hughes<\/h3>\n
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Jess has received the Myers Award from the Dr. Earl H. Myers and Ethel M. Myers Trust and the First Generation<\/a> Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Scholarship. These awards will help support her work assessing the long-term decadal and short-term seasonal variation in Pacific harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardii<\/em>) diet in Elkhorn Slough, Monterey County.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Perryman<\/h3>\n
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Sarah has received the Izzy Szczepaniak Cetacean Research Grant<\/a>\u00a0from the American Cetacean Society - San Francisco Bay Chapter, the <\/span>JEDI Scholarship<\/a>\u00a0from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, the Kenneth Coale Graduate Scholar Award<\/a>\u00a0from the California State University Council on Ocean Affairs, Science & Technology, and the John E. Heyning Research Award<\/a>\u00a0from the American Cetacean Society - Los Angeles Chapter. These awards will help support her work investigating the seasonal variation in Risso\u2019s dolphin (Grampus griseus<\/em>) diet and foraging ecology in Monterey Bay using stable isotope analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Aleah has received the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories’ WAVE Scholarship and the Myers Award from the Dr. Earl H. Myers and Ethel M. Myers Trust. These awards will help support her work investigating the seasonal variation of southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) raft size, distribution, and abundance in Elkhorn Slough. \u00a0 \u00a0   Jess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":3525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-students","tag-blog"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Vertebrate Ecology Lab","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/birdmam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}