Año Nuevo Natural Reserve is home to nearly 10,000 northern elephant seals - one of the deepest diving mammals on the planet! These seals travel thousands of miles each year and congregate back at Año Nuevo, where up to 2,000 pups are born each winter. We would like to know more about how these pups survive their first year, how long they live, how they learn to forage, and how they navigate in the open ocean. To answer these questions, we have created a “weanling weighing” team. The team will take body measurements, insert flipper tags, and weigh 300 recently weaned pups (weanlings). These data will allow us to monitor their health right now and throughout their lives. This known-age population of seals is also helpful for the world-class research conducted by researchers from around the world!
We need your help to “weigh the weanlings” so we can expand our knowledge of elephant seals while providing remarkable hands-on field experience for aspiring marine biologists. We are raising $10,000 to hire a field leader to organize and train our volunteers and also purchase the various supplies necessary to make the effort successful. Please make a donation today to help us weigh the weanlings and learn more about these amazing animals.
Check out the Año Nuevo Research Facebook page to learn more!
Rank | Prize | Department | Donors |
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1 | $1,000 | Formula Slug | 30 |
2 | $500 | Society of Physics Students (SPS) | 30 |
3 | Pilipino Cultural Celebration | 22 | |
4 | Grupo Folklorico Los Mejicas de UCSC | 22 | |
5 | UCSC Triathlon | 19 | |
6 | Tech4Good Student Programs | 18 | |
7 | KZSC Radio 2022 | 12 | |
8 | PBSci Peer Mentoring Coalition | 8 | |
9 | NCAA Women's Basketball Team | 5 | |
10 | Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) | 5 | |
11 | Archaeological Research Center | 2 | |
12 | Cal Teach Fund for Future Math or Science Teachers | 2 | |
13 | Redwood Free Market | 2 | |
14 | The Dickens Project | 2 | |
15 | Alumni Association Scholarship Fund | 2 |
Rank | Prize | Department | Donors |
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1 | $1,000 | Formula Slug | 42 |
2 | $500 | Make Seymour Center free to low-income families | 20 |
3 | Adventure Rec | 11 | |
4 | WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
5 | Grupo Folklorico Los Mejicas de UCSC | 8 | |
6 | oSTEM (Out in STEM) | 8 | |
7 | UC Santa Cruz Track & Field | 7 | |
8 | Alumni Association Scholarship Fund | 6 | |
9 | Surfing Club | 5 | |
10 | Academic Excellence (ACE) Program | 5 | |
11 | NCAA Women's Basketball Team | 5 | |
12 | KZSC Radio 2022 | 5 | |
13 | Center for Agroecology: Chadwick Garden | 4 | |
14 | Smith Internships and Research Fellowships | 4 | |
15 | Donate to the Chicanx Latinx Year End Ceremony! | 4 |
Rank | Prize | Department | Donors |
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1 | $2,500 | Rocket Team at UCSC | 89 |
2 | $1,000 | Alumni Association Scholarship Fund | 78 |
3 | $500 | "Finding Ma": Uplifting Incarcerated Voices | 62 |
4 | Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) | 61 | |
5 | City on a Hill Press | 45 | |
6 | UCSC Fencing Club | 23 | |
7 | Pilipino Cultural Celebration | 20 | |
8 | Adventure Rec | 19 | |
9 | PBSci Peer Mentoring Coalition | 13 | |
10 | Academic Excellence (ACE) Program | 11 | |
11 | oSTEM (Out in STEM) | 11 | |
12 | Cal Teach Fund for Future Math or Science Teachers | 10 | |
13 | WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
14 | Surfing Club | 9 | |
15 | Grupo Folklorico Los Mejicas de UCSC | 9 |
Rank | Prize | Department | Donors |
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1 | $1,000 | Alumni Association Scholarship Fund | 67 |
2 | $500 | Smith Internships and Research Fellowships | 50 |
3 | UCSC Rugby Club | 49 | |
4 | Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) | 46 | |
5 | Cal Teach Fund for Future Math or Science Teachers | 40 | |
6 | WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) | 38 | |
7 | Center for Agroecology: Chadwick Garden | 36 | |
8 | Surfing Club | 36 | |
9 | Academic Excellence (ACE) Program | 35 | |
10 | UC Santa Cruz Track & Field | 35 | |
11 | City on a Hill Press | 35 | |
12 | Adventure Rec | 32 | |
13 | The Dickens Project | 30 | |
14 | Tech4Good Student Programs | 29 | |
15 | NCAA Women's Basketball Team | 29 |
Rank | Prize | Department | Donors |
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1 | $1,000 | Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) | 30 |
2 | $500 | SlugMUN (Model United Nations) | 24 |
3 | PBSci Peer Mentoring Coalition | 12 | |
4 | Surfing Club | 11 | |
5 | Adventure Rec | 11 | |
6 | UCSC Rugby Club | 10 | |
7 | "Finding Ma": Uplifting Incarcerated Voices | 10 | |
8 | Alumni Association Scholarship Fund | 9 | |
9 | WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
10 | Smith Internships and Research Fellowships | 8 | |
11 | NCAA Women's Basketball Team | 8 | |
12 | Cal Teach Fund for Future Math or Science Teachers | 7 | |
13 | UCSC SACNAS Chapter | 7 | |
14 | iGEM 2022 | 6 | |
15 | KZSC Radio 2022 | 6 |
Rank | Prize | Department | Donors |
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1 | $1,000 | NCAA Women's Basketball Team | 36 |
2 | $500 | Tech4Good Student Programs | 28 |
3 | Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) | 24 | |
4 | Center for Agroecology: Chadwick Garden | 7 | |
5 | KZSC Radio 2022 | 6 | |
6 | Pacific Art and Visual Studies Fund | 4 | |
7 | oSTEM (Out in STEM) | 4 | |
8 | Research Ctr for Americas: Dolores Huerta Archives | 3 | |
9 | Adventure Rec | 3 | |
10 | The Dickens Project | 3 | |
11 | UCSC Rugby Club | 2 | |
12 | Archaeological Research Center | 2 | |
13 | Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence & Equity | 2 | |
14 | Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology | 2 | |
15 | Academic Excellence (ACE) Program | 2 |
Rank | Prize | Department | Donors |
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1 | $2,500 | "Finding Ma": Uplifting Incarcerated Voices | 99 |
2 | $1,000 | City on a Hill Press | 95 |
3 | $500 | Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) | 80 |
4 | Slugbotics | 48 | |
5 | Adventure Rec | 44 | |
6 | UCSC Rugby Club | 32 | |
7 | Taza Tal | 23 | |
8 | PBSci Peer Mentoring Coalition | 22 | |
9 | Surfing Club | 19 | |
10 | Society of Physics Students (SPS) | 17 | |
11 | Fisheries Collaborative Program | 17 | |
12 | Alumni Association Scholarship Fund | 16 | |
13 | Center for Agroecology: Chadwick Garden | 11 | |
14 | Cal Teach Fund for Future Math or Science Teachers | 11 | |
15 | Tech4Good Student Programs | 10 |
Rank | Prize | Department | Donors |
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1 | $10,000 | "Finding Ma": Uplifting Incarcerated Voices | 281 |
2 | $5,000 | Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) | 261 |
3 | $2,000 | City on a Hill Press | 192 |
4 | Adventure Rec | 177 | |
5 | Alumni Association Scholarship Fund | 167 | |
6 | Formula Slug | 153 | |
7 | Tech4Good Student Programs | 126 | |
8 | Surfing Club | 117 | |
9 | UCSC Rugby Club | 112 | |
10 | NCAA Women's Basketball Team | 110 | |
11 | Rocket Team at UCSC | 108 | |
12 | PBSci Peer Mentoring Coalition | 91 | |
13 | WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) | 87 | |
14 | KZSC Radio 2022 | 83 | |
15 | Smith Internships and Research Fellowships | 79 |
Rank | Prize | Department | Donors |
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1 | $2,500 | Alumni Association Scholarship Fund | 21 |
2 | $1,000 | Cal Teach Fund for Future Math or Science Teachers | 16 |
3 | Smith Internships and Research Fellowships | 14 | |
4 | Academic Excellence (ACE) Program | 13 | |
5 | Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative | 12 | |
6 | WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
7 | Girls in Engineering | 9 | |
8 | Redwood Free Market | 9 | |
9 | Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) | 8 | |
10 | UCSC Rugby Club | 8 | |
11 | Center for Agroecology: Chadwick Garden | 8 | |
12 | City on a Hill Press | 7 | |
13 | Educational Opportunity Programs (EOP) | 7 | |
14 | Tech4Good Student Programs | 7 | |
15 | Institute of the Arts and Sciences | 7 |
Rank | Prize | Department | Donors |
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1 | $1,500 | "Finding Ma": Uplifting Incarcerated Voices | 34 |
2 | $750 | UCSC SACNAS Chapter | 26 |
3 | $500 | Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI) | 25 |
4 | UCSC Fencing Club | 10 | |
5 | Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers | 9 | |
6 | Adventure Rec | 8 | |
7 | Formula Slug | 8 | |
8 | Tech4Good Student Programs | 8 | |
9 | WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
10 | City on a Hill Press | 7 | |
11 | Alumni Association Scholarship Fund | 6 | |
12 | College Scholars Program | 4 | |
13 | Surfing Club | 4 | |
14 | UCSC Rugby Club | 4 | |
15 | Pilipino Cultural Celebration | 4 |
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