Round stingray

Setting the net

Seining at Seal Beach California requires a lot of volunteers and the help of the lifeguards

Homemade Stingray costumes

Round stingray

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Stingray Contaminants

Contaminants in Stingrays

Goals

Characterize contaminant accumulation in stingrays over ontogeny

Areas of Interest

Organochlorine contaminants, mercury, trace metals

Groups Involved

Summary

Round stingrays (Urobatis halleri) make excellent elasmobranch models to explore contaminant accumulation and tissue distribution. In this project, I am interested in how life stage influences not only the types of contaminants acquired but how they are distributed throughout the body as well as how physiological changes with maturity influences those dynamics.

CSULB, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium