In Their Own Words

Student researchers are contributing to a new blog that the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, housed in USC Dornsife, launched in June to feature graduate and undergraduate environmental research.

“It’s a showcase for the cutting edge research that our graduate and undergraduate students are doing on campus and on Catalina Island,” said Jessica Dutton, postdoctoral scholar and research associate with the USC Wrigley Institute. Dutton initiated the blog and works with students who want to write about their research projects.

“The blog gives students an opportunity to share their individual projects and to practice communicating about science with public audiences,” Dutton said. “It also presents them as role models to other students who may be thinking about environmental sciences. It’s a look into ‘a day in the life’ of our students and the activities involved in real research.”

The Wrigley Institute blog can be found at dornsife-blogs.usc.edu/wrigley/.

A small video logger is attached to a shark, shown here, so that the student for 12 hours can see exactly what the shark sees, and can see how the shark is interacting with the world around it. Included in the blog, the photo is by Connor White, a Wrigley Institute 2014 Summer Fellow.