Dan kneels face to face with a seal that has a tracker on its head

Dan Costa | Researcher Fellow
University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA

Dan has been studying marine predators for over 50 years and is interested in how animal work, how they manage to live where they live and why they do what they do. Dan’s research has included adaptations of animals to life in the marine environment, especially the movements, foraging ecology and energetics of pinnipeds and seabirds. Over the years Dan has worked with the US, British, New Zealand, French, and Australian national Antarctic programs.