Weekly Report:

 Madeleine Balser

Senior Project 

Kelly Griffin-Brown

Weekly Report

May 15, 2022              

  Senior Project: Pacific Mammal Rescue Center

This project has challenged me to truly make an impact in my close environment or community and learn 
how best to support those in my area. I learned about the struggles of sea lions, elephant seals, and harbor

seals. Some issues included malnutrition, lack of maternal figure, pneumonia, sea lion pocks, and

boats/people. I also learned about how these issues are treated. Malnutrition in particular takes a bit

longer to treat because the animals must learn to gain a habit or understanding of how to catch their own 

food. I also learned how to run a kiosk and get people interested in the topic you are presenting. The topic 

I, fortunately, get to present is one that I care about in these animals and I feel very lucky for that. I have 

thoroughly enjoyed what I have done this week. I have met some amazing women who work at the rescue 

center and have gotten to learn about their work on a very close level. I also have enjoyed having the

opportunity to see firsthand the treatment of these animals. Overall, I feel very fortunate to get to be in

Laguna Beach California and to learn about this topic. Everything happened about as I expected. The

kiosk is at Huntington Beach which is not the beach I first expected us to be working at. I was also 

surprised when Kathryn and I chose to try and be vegan for the week to help the environment and live

more sustainably. I believe that I benefited exponentially well this week through what I had learned. The

important information I gathered and conversations I had helped me to learn more thoroughly about a 

topic I care about. I also got to learn important skills if I ever chose to go into marine biology. I believe 

that this helps me achieve my goals as I would like to possibly have a background in marine biology or

more broadly marine science. I also just enjoy helping my community and this project has helped me to 

further that.

Hours Today: 7
Total Hours: 49

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