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A sea turtle positioned at the entrance of a CT machine.
Aquatic Animal Health Zoological Medicine The Student Experience
Aquarium
Aquatic Animal Health
Aquatic Animal Medicine
Aquatic Medicine
Mississippi Aquarium
College of Veterinary Medicine
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Student Experiential Learning
Student Learning
Externship
Veterinary Externship
Student Support Fund
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Applied Research
Hands-on Experience
Aquatic Animals
Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
Dolphins
Necropsy
Anatomic Pathology
Coral
Coral Health
Coral Reef
Coral Reef Ecology
African Penguins
Aquatic veterinary medicine
Release
Wildlife Release
The International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine Conference

Practicing Aquarium and Rehabilitation Medicine in Mississippi

December 02, 2025
This past spring, I had the opportunity to travel to Gulfport, Mississippi, where I served as a veterinary student extern at the Mississippi Aquarium. It was my first time working at an aquarium, and I loved it....
Victoria is wearing a white lab coat and blue gloves as she measures the girth of a seal using a yellow measuring tape in a clinical lab setting. The seal is lying on a metal examination table. The room is well-lit with industrial-style overhead lights and contains medical equipment.
Wildlife Pathology The Student Experience
Seals
Wildlife Pathology
marine mammal
Strandings Investigation Program
Utrecht University
Externship
Veterinary Externship
Student
Student Experience
Veterinary Student
Free-ranging Wildlife Conservation
Marine Mammal Stranding
Necropsy
Postmortem Examinations
Histopathology
Dutch Wildlife Health Center
Hands-on Experience
Anatomic Pathology
Pathology
Infectious Disease
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health
Student Support Fund
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
SOS Dolfijn
Stranding

Using Veterinary Pathology to Investigate Marine Mammal Strandings in the North Sea

September 16, 2025 by Victoria Priester
Every seal or porpoise that strands tells a story of the life it lived and how it died, though some findings from necropsies make more complete stories than others....