Beckman Foundation Announces 2021 Beckman Young Investigator Awardees
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“We are thrilled to recognize the amazing creativity and future potential in this outstanding group of scientists.” - Dr. Anne Hultgren IRVINE, Calif. (PRWEB) June 03, 2021 The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation announced today the selection of its 2021 class of Beckman Young Investigator Awardees from U.S. colleges and universities. The awardees exemplify the Foundation’s mission of supporting the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open new avenues of research in science. They were selected from a pool of over 250 applicants after a three-part review led by a panel of scientific experts.
Fat and content: Why plump elephant seals take fewer risks
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California elephant seals battle fear, hunger in epic migration across Pacific
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A juvenile seal keeps watch at Drake’s Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore. New research looks at the seals’ migration halfway to Japan.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Two juvenile elephant seals on the beach at Drake’s Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore. Their mothers will embark on a seven-month sea journey to fee and they hope evade predators.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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The tags on this female elephant seal record data throughout its seven-month foraging migration. Researchers recover the tags when the seals return to the rookery at Año Nuevo Reserve on the San Mateo County coast.Dan Costa / UC Santa CruzShow MoreShow Less
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While scientists have known that creatures may adjust the timing of their daily routines based on starvation and predation, these shifts have only previously been measured based on data from a population at a single point in time. Now, using data collected as 71 elephant seals undertook their foraging migrations across the North Pacific Ocean, researchers report a view of how these animals divide their time between light and darkness to optimize tradeoffs between risks and rewards based on 7 months of data per seal, collected between 2004 and 2012. Their findings refute a hypothesis about how seals prioritize feeding. To better understand how seals divide their time between light and darkness, Roxanne Beltran and colleagues used high-resolution biologgers to continuously measure elephant seals as they journeyed for 7 months across the North Pacific Ocean, monitoring shifts in their body fat, time spent in light and darkness, movement both across the ocean and to different d
Fat and content: Why plump elephant seals take fewer risks
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17/03/2021 - 19:08 A bull elephant seal rests on the sand at Drakes Beach in Inverness, California Philip Pacheco AFP 4 min
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Fat elephant seals prioritize hiding themselves from predators during their vast, months-long foraging expeditions in the open ocean, while skinny seals need to take more risks until they re nice and plump, a study showed Wednesday.
The paper, published in the journal Science Advances, is the first to continuously measure changes in behavior relative to body fat, proving decades-old ecological theories about how wild animals balance perils against payoffs.
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