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P000608.bmp (3686458 bytes)TRACEY L. WOODCOCK, a former United States Marine, is a senior at San Diego State University where she is majoring in Biology with an emphasis in Marine Biology. She attained Associate Degrees in Liberal Arts and Sciences and Biology while attending Palomar College, where she graduated with honors. She has been recognized by the National Dean's List Association and is a member of the Alpha Gamma Sigma and Phi Theta Kappa Honor Societies. Tracey is the 1998 recipient of the Mabel Myers Scholarship and the 1998 Camp Pendleton Officers' Wives' Club Scholarship.

Over the past four years, Tracey has had many varied experiences in the field of Biology. She has interned as a naturalist aboard the vessel Pacific Queen specializing in the biology of the various cetacean and pinniped species, which inhabit the Pacific Ocean. She not only presented information on marine mammals, cephalopods, and sea and shorebirds, but conducted marine mammal identification and population counts as well. While serving as a Seal Rock docent for the Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute, her duties included population counts of Harbor seals and California sea lions utilizing the haul-out site, logging behavioral activities, the impact of human disturbances and tidal data, and educating the public on pinniped biology. Working as a laboratory technician for Palomar College's Life Sciences department, Tracey was responsible for the preparation, set-up, and maintenance of materials necessary for lab exercises. She also prepared and maintained various species of bacterial cultures to be used throughout the department.

Currently, Tracey volunteers at Friends of the Sea Lion Marine Mammal Center located in Laguna Beach, California aiding in the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of seals and sea lions. She also volunteers her time presenting lectures to local schools, colleges, children's groups, and adult organizations that are designed to educate on the topics of Harbor Seal biology and cetacean bio-acoustics.  Lastly, she is a contributing writer and the current editor of Under the Sea, a newsletter for marine biology students.  

P000606.bmp (3686458 bytes)AMBERLY DeLAURENTIS is a student of marine biology and oceanography, specializing her focus of studies on pinnipeds. Her experience includes two seasons as a naturalist on board the vessel the Pacific Queen educating people on the migration of the Gray whale and various species of pinnipeds that inhabit the Coronado Islands. She has also volunteered for Friends of the Sea Lion Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, California aiding in the rescue, rehabilitation and release of seals and sea lions.

For the past two years she has worked as a laboratory teaching assistant in the oceanography program for Palomar College. Her own education of these animals continues to grow through experience and through a lecture series she created three years ago entitled Pinnipeds of the California Coastline. These lectures are given to various schools, colleges, children's groups and adult organizations. The purpose of her lectures is to better educate her audience on the various species of pinnipeds found along the California coastline and their individual characteristics.

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