{"id":444,"date":"2017-12-06T13:02:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/?page_id=444"},"modified":"2021-02-15T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T01:18:39","slug":"victoria-elana-vasquez-vicky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/psrc\/people\/victoria-elana-vasquez-vicky\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Elana V\u00e1squez (Vicky)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Victoria Elena V\u00e1squez (Vicky)<\/b><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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E-mail: vvasquez@mlml.calstate.edu<\/p>\n

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Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Graduate Student, PSRC<\/b><\/p>\n

Moss Landing Marine Laboratories<\/b><\/p>\n

Deputy Director, Ocean Research Foundation<\/b><\/p>\n

Background:<\/b><\/p>\n

Vicky received her Bachelor of Science from\u00a0UC Davis in Evolution and Ecology. In addition, she earned a Minor in Art Studio in which she focused on photography courses and a Minor in Psychology in which she focused on Animal Behavior courses. Her research endeavors as an undergraduate involved several independently developed ecology projects including a semester at\u00a0Bodega Marine Laboratories, working on invasive species in San Francisco Bay through\u00a0UC Davis\u2019 IGERT program, and presenting her findings regarding habitat selection in\u00a0Drosophila melanogaster<\/i>to\u00a0UC Davis\u2019s CAMP\u00a0conference. After graduation, Vicky\u2019s next research experience occurred in Mossely Bay, South Africa with\u00a0Ocean\u2019s Research\u00a0where she learned tagging and tracking skills through their Great White shark (Carcharodon carcharias<\/i>) population study. Since then, she has accrued nearly a decade worth of experience in marine education with a special interest in collaborating with Spanish speakers and underserved communities. Her career in marine education began with the\u00a0Ocean Discovery Institute\u00a0and has continued with groups like the\u00a0Marine Science Institute\u00a0and the\u00a0Ocean Odyssey\u00a0which has combined classroom and outdoor education including deckhand work certified by the US Coast Guard. Most recently she developed and taught marine science curriculum to students from the\u00a07Teepees Youth Program in the Mission District of San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Vicky has also written marine science content for\u00a0Beyond Blue Magazine\u00a0(with a regular column, The Spotlight),\u00a0Southern Fried Science\u00a0and\u00a0Elite Diving Agency. In addition, Vicky has volunteered with groups like Dr. Sylvia Earle\u2019s group Mission Blue on their\u00a0Google Ocean project, the aquarium department at\u00a0the Living Coast Discovery Center\u00a0and the\u00a0Ichthyology Department at the California Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n

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Vicky\u2019s experiences led to an offer to serve as the Founding Deputy Director of the\u00a0Ocean Research Foundation (ORF)\u00a0which is a fully volunteered powered operation. In this position, Vicky has helped organize and run public outreach events such as Shark Trivia at Nightlife with the California Academy of Sciences and classroom visits. Vicky also manages other volunteers, oversees their social media endeavors and assists in ORF\u2019s field work in San Francisco Bay. In 2014, Vicky reached over 1600 people through 16 events, including 579 school-aged children and has already surpassed these numbers for 2015.<\/p>\n

Additional accomplishments include\u2026<\/p>\n

Emcee for the student portion of the\u00a0San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival<\/p>\n

Guest panelist on the\u00a0Online Ocean Symposium<\/p>\n

Guest panelist on the\u00a0F1000 Research<\/p>\n

March 2015 Featured Scientist for\u00a0the Gills Club<\/p>\n

Guest speaker at the\u00a0Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society<\/p>\n

Current Research:<\/b><\/p>\n

Master\u2019s Thesis: Soupfin Sharks in San Francisco Bay<\/p>\n

Vicky is studying the spatial and temporal distribution of Soupfin sharks (Galeorhinus galeus<\/i>) in San Francisco Bay. She finds this work really exciting because the Golden Gate Bridge is a world-recognized icon yet we don\u2019t have a full understanding of the life below its waters. More so, when many people think about sharks in San Francisco Bay, they often think about Great White sharks (Carcharodon carcharias<\/i>). Consequently, many of the more common elasmobranch species utilizing the bay go unnoticed. Soupfin sharks are one such example. In the early 1940s, Soupfins were heavily fished for their livers yet no one has done an assessment on the population within San Francisco bay since then.<\/p>\n

Citizen Science Project: Southern California Hammerhead Shark Survey<\/p>\n

In 2014, a large influx of hammerhead sharks to Southern California prompted Vicky to create an on-line survey in which water users (primarily fisherman) could report observations and pass along any photo or video evidence. This is an ongoing project in which the public can help by sharing the survey with others and reporting any observations. The survey was developed in collaboration with UX developer and ocean enthusiast,\u00a0Orestis Herodotou.<\/p>\n

ORF: Sevengill Population Study<\/p>\n

Vicky serves as a field assistant to ORF\u2019s Sevengill shark population study. ORF tags Sevengill sharks in San Francisco Bay with spaghetti tags for a long term catch & release study. If you or someone you know catches a tagged a Sevengill shark, you can help this work by calling the number on the tag to report the location, size and ID number of that shark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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