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Kathleen holding a penguin and smiling at the camera.
Aquatic Animal Health Zoological Medicine The Student Experience
Aquarium
Aquatic Animal Health
Aquatic Animal Medicine
Aquatic Animals
Aquatic Medicine
Mississippi Aquarium
Aquatic veterinary medicine
Student
Student Experience
Student Experiential Learning
Student Learning
Student Support
Student Support Fund
Penguins
Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
Aquatics
Externship
Veterinary Externship
Histopathology
Anatomic Pathology
Postmortem Examinations
Hands-on Experience
Release
Wildlife Release
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Exploring New Depths of Aquatic Health at the Mississippi Aquarium

August 19, 2026
I gained invaluable, hands-on experience at the Mississippi Aquarium in Gulfport, Mississippi. As my first externship in an aquarium setting, this experience opened my eyes not only to the diversity of species treated, but also to the breadth of diagnostic and treatment approaches available in an aquarium setting....
Danielle Keerbs working in the field
Wild Carnivores Wildlife Medicine The Student Experience
Fieldwork
Conservation
Applied Research
College of Veterinary Medicine
Student
Student Experience
Student Support Fund
Eastern Hellbender Salamander
East Foundation
Sustainability
Sustainable Conservation
Ocelot
Texas Parks and Wildlife
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
Habitat Loss
Postmortem Examinations
Critically Endangered
Habitat Risk
Field Conservation
Reproduction
Reproductive Biology
Reproductive Medicine
Parasitology
Conservation Genetics
Genetic Analysis
Genetic Samples
Externship
Veterinary Externship
PhD

Traveling Down Ocelot Road: An Exploration of Field-Based Research

October 23, 2025
On the recommendation of Cornell’s Dr. Martin Gilbert, I reached out to Dr. Ashley Reeves, the research veterinarian for the East Foundation, a private nonprofit focused on land stewardship...
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
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Student Support Fund
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
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Stranding

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

September 16, 2025 by Victoria Priester, DVM '26
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....