Biology Student Receives $10,000 Award From Aquarium of the Pacific
Julianna Colucci, a biology graduate student, received a $10,000 award from the Aquarium of the Pacific to help support her oyster research.

Julianna Colucci, a biology graduate student, received a $10,000 award from the Aquarium of the Pacific to help support her oyster research.

Class of 2024 grad and California Sea Grant Fellow Megan Nguyen is studying the impact of human activities and environmental stressors on seaweed.

Student researcher Anabell Espinosa works in the lab on her pipefish research alongside faculty mentor Ryan Walter, associate professor of biological science.

Biology graduate student Brandon Quintana receives national award from the Ecological Society of America to gain hands-on science policy experience.

Biology graduate student Jordyn Neal, who is studying the megamouth shark, is a 2023 recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

A new collaborative study, led by Cal State Fullerton postdoctoral scholar Shirel Kahane-Rapport, reveals that filter-feeding baleen whales ingest millions of pieces of microplastics — and consume more plastic than any other ocean organism.

Cal State Fullerton biology graduate student Katie Kern is studying chimaeras, a deep-sea fish that has no bones, but a skeleton made of cartilage and a forehead appendage with spiky teeth.

Trina Miller, a Cal State Fullerton undergraduate researcher, is studying the threats of human-created trash to marine life in the rocky intertidal zone.

Cal State Fullerton graduate student Jahnita DeMoranville is getting up-close and personal with all things sharks during a summer shark science program.

Cal State Fullerton postdoctoral scholar Shirel Kahane-Rapport is diving into the biomechanics of baleen whales and how they use baleen plates to filter food, such as zooplankton and small fish from seawater. The answers could lead to better engineered industrial filtration systems.