I am a senior at the University of California, Santa Cruz studying marine biology. I am especially interested in the anatomy, behavior, and physiology of large marine vertebrates. I am currently an undergraduate researcher in the Beltran Lab at UC Santa Cruz studying northern elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park. Under the advisement of Dr. Beltran and a graduate student mentor, I am working on a senior thesis which studies the ontogeny of sexual size dimorphism in juvenile northern elephant seals by documenting characteristically dimorphic morphological traits (head, teeth, and flippers). I am also a NAUI Advanced Open Water SCUBA diver as well as an AAUS Scientific Diver.