Megan Stolen

@seaforensics.bsky.social

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Wildlife forensic science and ecology, conserving wild animals from the inside-out. 🩸🩻🔬🪰🐋🦦 🐢 🪶 Fan of shelter dogs, fiber arts, and this beautiful planet. 🌍 she/her/hers Ⓥ

Small quilts featuring wildlife - in a square.
A patchwork quilt of blue and green batique fabric
Sign reading vaccination area.
Two otters swimming and circling a small pool of water.
4 blue and green bags with drawstrings and a lump of soap
A pile of brown and white stuffed pelican toys on a towel near a filing case. These are used in education program to teach kids about fishing line entanglement.
Close up: An earring (back side up) in the shape of a skunk with a wire loop laying on a brick driveway.
A small house peeking out behind a yard of native plants including sea grape, dune sunflower and coontie.
Close up of golden yellow yarn with small interlocking threads resembling the shedded scales of snake skin.
A large light brown dog with black sunglasses and a bright pink tongue.
Two hands cradle a small white, brown and gray quail.
Small black flecks on cardboard mulch near an overgrown herb bed. Bat poop!
A cartoon character of an otter near a river
Photo of Dr. DeBruyn collecting samples at a forensic field site.
A program for Animal ForensiCon- a veterinary forensic conference.
A sign for Doc Ehrhart Sanctuary surrounded by vegetation. There is a blue, green and brown sea turtle statue next to the sign.
A black pitbull mix puppy with a pink collar stares out the window of a car after veterinary treatment.
A raccoon peers into a scavenger excluder cage. Photo taken with a trail camera.
Title slide from a talk: Forensic Applications (Photography and ALS) in Southwest FL marine mammal stranding investigation with authors listed
Close up photo of a scarf with a cleft weft of medium green and dark blue woven on a rigid heddle loom. Not quite done.
A quilt of light brown, beige and shades of blue with black leatherback turtle silhouettes.
A very messy garden with wooden beds, small vegetables and herbs and the base of our bat house.
A black dog and a large rat’s nest of dark gray yarn that had been unwound.
Photo shows a blurry lizard head in front of a background of trees, shrubs and forensic cages.
A close up view of a gopher tortoise in green vegetation.
A slide from an on-line talk titled Weapons and intentional injury in marine mammals stranding forensic investigations.
Pieces of blue, gray and green-tinged fabric cut into shapes sitting on top of a traced quilt pattern.
A report from the Florida panther mortality report about an interspecific aggression event causing the death of a 4-5 month old panther.
Photo shows a close up of a quilt pattern on tracing paper and some fabric laid over the drawing. The fabric is batik with different color blues and green resembling leaves.
A blood spot in the middle of a gray panel floor and a yellow rug nearby.
Four off-white bones called otoliths sit on a great cutting board during a necropsy. There is a scale at the bottom of the photo showing centimeter and millimeter marks.
A large white dog in a transport great. Her nose and eyes are black.
Blue and white yarn interchanged and pulled tightly from a small loom sitting on a table in a yarn shop.
A small stem with pink flowers and a leaf and a couple drawings using a black pen next to them.
A black crow sitting in a green tree with a blue and white sky above.
Several whale lice crawl among feathers of a pelican
A North American river otter chewing their prey on the cover of a journal.
Millie is a blue heeler. She has a black mask and ears and a gray body. She rode in the backseat on her way to a rescue foster home.
A quilted leatherback turtle hatchling, black with white accents on a tan background fabric.
A dead otter lies in the road next to a white truck with a cooler in the back. The otter will be examined as part of our study.
A Turkey Vulture sits on top of a wire and wood scavenger excluder cage.
A view of a computer screen showing a meeting that has adjourned.
Photo is Representative Soto from Florida
Photo of Rep. Addison McDowell
Photo of Seth Magaziner from RI
A slide of a professional talk that lists the title “Forensic Investigation of brown pelican mortality events” and the authors.
A plastic sampling bag labeled with the date and “control soil”
Close up photo of 2 beetles. One is larger than the other and is mostly black with orange U-shaped markings. The other is mottled off-white and dark gray.
Photo taken with a trail camera at night. There is a coyote in the center of the photo.
A small look with blue, yellow and purple yarn in a soft weave
A close up photo of a pelican wing showing several feathers wrapped with fishing gear including line and a metal sinker.
The foot of an otter showing their claws which have been damaged in a vehicle strike that killed the otter.
View from inside a scavenger excluder cage made from wood and wire used for animal decomposition studies.
Night time photo showing a small screened enclosure with the door open.
A sunset with a cobalt blue sky, orange and yellow rays of the sun above dark green marsh grass.
A black binder with a label that reads “Megan Bodies” sits on a beige lab counter.
A computer screen with a couple dozen photos of taphonomy field work in a salt marsh.
A gopher tortoise is shown facing the camera with his eyes closed and his front legs tucked under his shell toward his body.
An assortment of vegan cheese, salami and marshmallows.
A photo taken from a plane showing the sun radiating from the left and a vast cover of fluffy, white clouds below and a thinner layer of clouds above.