This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Theadora interviews Jessie Kendall-Bar, a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz in the Ecology & Evolutionary biology department. Jessie studies the neurophysiology of sleep in marine mammals, specializing in elephant seals.

Learn how Jessie researches elephant seal sleep and some of the differences between marine mammal and human sleep.

For more information about Jessie's research and other projects, check out her website: https://www.jessiekb.com/research