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Ecology

CSUDH Biology Professor Making Big Waves With Her Shark Studies

July 1, 2021

Biology professor Samantha Leigh kneeling in a tidepool while holding a bonnethead shark.

Sitting offshore in a small boat in the Florida Keys, CSUDH Assistant Professor of Biology Samantha Leigh tosses chum into the shallow water. The pungent slurry of chopped-up fish parts is the best way to attract her targets, so she keeps a close eye on the long gillnets she has laid perpendicular to the shoreline. When Leigh spots a disturbance in a net, she jumps in and makes her way to a snared bonnethead shark, which she untangles and places in a live tank inside the boat. After netting a couple more, Leigh takes her catches to a lab facility, where the bonnetheads are released into tanks with ocean water flow-through systems. These allow the sharks to acclimate to their new ... Read More

Office of Sustainability to Re-Cast Campus’ Ecological Footprint

October 23, 2017

Ellie Perry

Working with the administration and faculty to help make the university as energy efficient and environmentally aware as possible, while guiding student interns as sustainability leaders among their peers, California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) new Office of Sustainability is dedicated to re-casting the university’s ecological footprint into a smaller mold. The Office of Sustainability is managed by Ellie Perry, who arrived in August 2017 as CSUDH’s first coordinator and assistant energy analyst. The new office helps address the “three major utility pillars” of sustainability on a campus: energy, recycling, and water in addition to other campus impact areas such as ... Read More

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