Daniel P. Costa

The crabeater seal reference genome reveals hallmarks of persistently large effective population size and sustained population expansion in the World's most abundant pinniped

The paper presents a high-quality crabeater seal reference genome and shows it has high genetic diversity, low inbreeding, and a history of population expansion.

Semi-Automated Seal Detection on the Western Antarctic Peninsula: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Ice Seals in Aerial Survey Data

This paper presents a semi-automated image analysis pipeline using hierarchical clustering to detect ice seals in aerial survey data from the Western Antarctic Peninsula, achieving 82% test recall.