Blogs from the Field
A healthy future for wildlife, people, and planet.
![Adam Frosolone in the field.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-01/Adam%20Frosolone%20Student%20Blog%20thumnail.jpg?itok=Oz6Td15-)
February 09, 2024
This summer, I embarked on an unforgettable journey into the heart of aquatic veterinary medicine with Dr. Tim Miller-Morgan at the Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC) in Newport, Oregon. The center is Oregon State University’s coastal campus, also serving as a marine science laboratory and an oceanographic research base for six state and federal agencies....
![A whale calf’s entangled flipper and how tightly wrapped the line is.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-11/Hall-Whale-entangled-in-monofilament-Photo-1-Breaching-768x433-1.jpeg?itok=08sgh3LD)
November 08, 2023
For my last summer before clinical rotations, I wanted to gain experience with marine animals. I was accepted as an intern with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Marine Mammal Rescue & Research (MMRR) program in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a unique geographical area where tides and coastlines can suddenly trap a dolphin or whale in inches of water....
![Georgia Aquarium Animal Health Team](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-10/Group%20photo%20for%20Michelle%20Green%20blog%20thumbnail.jpg?itok=j4q3HWaa)
October 25, 2023
I started veterinary school with the goal of working with stingrays, dolphins, and fish. Now, four years later, I can say I have worked at some of the top aquariums and other aquatic facilities in the country and connected with colleagues who are leading this field.
![Hery Ríos-Guzmán, DVM ’24, in Bayahibe, Dominican Republic, FUNDEMAR’s headquarters.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-10/Hery%20Ri%CC%81os-Guzma%CC%81n%20student%20blog%20thumbnail..jpg?itok=3v7HPAc3)
October 11, 2023
We strap on our snorkel gear and jump into the blue. It only takes a few butterfly kicks to reach a citadel bustling with life. Within seconds, we are greeted by branching, massive, and laminar structures formed by hundreds of genetically identical individuals....
![Salmon net pens](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-09/thumbnail_F%C3%A6r%C3%B8sk_havbrug.1.jpg?itok=C9BsjIOI)
September 08, 2020
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Rodman Getchell
Mostly stuck at home like the rest of you, I cannot get the constant talk about testing and tracing out of my head during this COVID-19 pandemic. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s voice is ever present, and I welcome his daily, even-tempered and pragmatic broadcasts about how to keep us safe. Given my line of work, I easily saw some analogies, and I said to my work-at-home spouse on one of our daily walks, “Fish farmers have to deal with epidemics, too.”
![Round goby](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2019-02/Neogobius_melanostomus1-1-uquctp.jpg?itok=0vDuVhzj)
March 19, 2018
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Rodman Getchell
I don’t usually think of myself as a detective. I tell folks that we at the Aquatic Animal Health Program investigate fish kills for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)....