Costa Eseals

Elephant seal NMFS permit

• Full permit

• Form to allocate takes for your project

• Current take table

Contacts from other colonies:

• Lost Coast: Dawn Goley (Patricia.Goley@humboldt.edu)

• Point Reyes: Sarah Codde (sarah_codde@nps.gov)

• Farallon Islands: Garrett Duncan (gduncan@pointblue.org)

• Piedras Blancas: Heather Liwanag (hliwanag@calpoly.edu)

• TMMC: Shelbi Stoudt (Stoudts@tmmc.org)

Databases

• **Please enter resights on the same day data are collected - especially for seals that are handled/immobilized

  • New resight data entry form: http://eseal.ucsc.edu/elephantseal/sealdata/index.php/user

    • (you may wish to install this chrome plugin first to prevent the "backspace" problem

• Eseal flipper tag database: http://eseal.ucsc.edu/elephantseal/

  • Eseal census database: http://eseal.ucsc.edu/sealcensus/

  • Eseal annual breeding reports: http://eseal.ucsc.edu/elephantseal/annualreport/

  • New flipper tags put out each year: http://eseal.ucsc.edu/elephantseal/tagreport

  • Costa Lab database: http://lml-research-app-1.ucsc.edu/web/entryform/

Updates and Reminders:

• • Please be sure all researchers and volunteers have read our State Parks Agreement

  • When entering 3-digit tags into Rick's database, please use a leading space... e.g. "Y 101" (instead of "Y101")

  • Please enter new flipper tags and dye marks into Rick's database the same day they are applied.

  • Please put raw resight data into this google drive folder.

• NPS pinniped monitoring protocol

  • UCSC Controlled Substances: https://sites.google.com/a/ucsc.edu/controlled-substances-administration/introduction

Additional information:

• Volunteer meeting presentation: 2014, Eseal Fact Sheet

• Elephant seal resight instructions: Click Here!

• Public access to the eseal census data: Click Here!

• Resight data entry form for Docents and the general public: Click Here!

• Documents:

  • Blank Datasheet

  • Blank Drug Log / Blank Vial Log

  • Field Packing List

  • Student Gear Checkout Sheet

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• Breeding season 2022 reminders:

  • Instructions for marking pups

    • Pups of green flipper-tagged moms: use 3 digits of the mom's tag (not 4 digits, so we can differentiate mom and pup). Also need to enter this information twice: once in the mom's resight and once to make the pup a new animal in the database.

    • Pups of white/pink/violet tagged moms: use the tag color code and 2 digits from the mom's tag (e.g. W12)

    • Pups of unknown moms: each individual researcher is assigned a letter for sequential marks (e.g. 1M, 2M, 3M,... 21M, 22M, etc.)

      • Pat - M

      • Rachel - H

      • Patrick - P

      • Caro - C

      • Theresa - T

      • Claire - X

      • Additional letters: V, J, W