Welcome to our new blog series which highlights the careers and challenges of female scientists! Why Women DOING Science? A new study led by New York University found that asking young girls to “do science” leads them to show greater persistence in science activities than does asking them to “be scientists”. Because these findings suggest […]
Earth Day Celebration at the Dallas Arboretum
Join us at the Dallas Arboretum on 27 April 2019 to celebrate Earth Day! We are partnering with the School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics at The University of Texas at Dallas to provide hands-on K-12 activities on geology, chemistry, marine life, space, physics, and more. Azura’s scientists and volunteers will introduce kids and parents to […]
Marine Mammal Conference Presentation
Fins & Faces: Using Photo-identification to Study Dolphins & Whales Over 1,700 scientists, managers, policy makers, and students attended the 22nd Biennial Society for Marine Mammalogy Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals during October 22-27, 2017, at the Halifax Convention Centre in Nova Scotia, Canada. A common theme throughout the conference was the conservation […]
LADC-GEMM 2017 Survey: #2 Through the Eyes of Youth
By Amy Whitt You graduate high school on a Friday and before even a week has passed you are packing up your teddy bear and heading out to sea on your first marine research expedition. This is any budding marine biologist’s dream! Many of us didn’t have our first at-sea research opportunity until we were […]
The Vaquita: A Porpoise in Peril
30…a classroom of students, a team of football players, and the number of vaquita left on Earth. These tiny, critically endangered porpoises live only in the northern Gulf of California in Baja California, Mexico, and their population is actually estimated to now be less than 30. Ironically, the number of family and friends that recently […]
