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Lab Mascots

Ruby, a chocolate lab mix, wearing UNCW bandana, and laying on her back on a deck

Ruby, a chocolate lab mix, and Tusc, a German shorthaired pointer, sitting on a raised walkway during the middle of a hike

Tusc, a German shortaired pointer, wearing a UNCW bandana around his neck and sitting in front of a potted plant

Ruby, a chocolate lab mix, wearing sunglasses with her tongue sticking out.

Tusc, a German shorthaired pointer, laying a bed with his head rested on a tennis ball

Tusc, a German shorthaired pointer, eating a stick

Ruby and Tusc sleeping in the car

Tusc: "May I be in your lab while you drive, please?"

Ruby, a chocolate lab mix, sitting in Matt's camp chair when there is plenty of space on the ground

Science in Action

REU student Justine Intemann-Milligan using a micromill to collect bone dust from individual sea turtle humerus bone growth layers

Micromill sampling a cross-section of sea turtle humerus bone

Natasha Nemyre presenting her undergraduate research

Satined cross-section a sea turtle humerus bone showing the annual growth rings (dark bands). Years, growth rates, and ages associated with each growth ring are noted.

Black Sea Bass being dissected for stable isotope and stomach content analysis

Collecting bone dust from a Bottlenose dolphin skull housed in a museum collection

Matt with a nesting loggerhead sea turtle. Picture taken when Matt was a sea turtle intern at Bald Head Island!

Matt collecting skin samples for stable isotope analysis from a Kemp's ridley sea turtle housed in a museum collection

Undergrad Eric Parks accepting his award for Best Student Poster at the International Sea Turtle Symposium!

Cross-sections of an Atlantic cod otolith showing annuli. These were subsequently sampled for amino acid-specific stable isotope values to characterize changing in trophic ecology over decadal time scales

Undergrad Eric Parks preparing to load samples on the LA-ICP-MS for trace element analysis

Humerus bone being sectioned using an Isomer low speed saw for skeletochronology

Matt preparing dead stranded sea turtle samples for analysis (with relevant research permits)

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Undergrad Meghan Davis examining stained humerus bone cross-sections

Loggerhead sea turtles humerus bone cross section sampled via a micromill to collect bone dust for stable isotope analysis

Matt weighing out dried fish muscle samples for stable isotope analysis

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Matt's husband Wyatt Zuber—for the first time—weighing out bone powder samples for stable isotope analysis. Everyone in the lab contributes!

Undergrad Marlene Severino preparing dead stranded sea turtle samples for analysis (with relevant research permits)

Undergrad Julia Hart presenting her research at the International Sea Turtle Symposium

Undergrad Mathew VanBemmel presenting his research

The Ramirez Lab

University of North Carolina Wilmington

Center for Marine Science

5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane, Wilmington, NC 28409

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