Shannon graduated with an M.S. in 2016 and is now a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife - Arcata Field Office. She also worked with te Bureau of Land Management working on the Trinidad Seabird Protection Network.  Shannon received her Bachelor of Science in biology with a concentration in field and wildlife from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2009. She spent five years working on a variety of projects but her focus was on nesting shorebirds and seabirds along the California coast.  She returned to school to earn her master's degree and continue her research interest with seabirds. Specifically, her research focused on parental care behaviors in Brandt's Cormorant. Seabird parental care is thought to influence reproductive success, and the associated behaviors of parental care are linked to the ability to forage in an unpredictable marine environment.  Therefore, parental care behaviors and their relationship to individual chick survival may provide a stronger causal link between seabirds’ reproductive success and the marine environment, allowing for better informed management and facilitate more accurate monitoring tools. This research was supported by SeaGrant.