Krista Fahy

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  www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=13712 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/10/2007    Last Visited: 4/10/2007  

  Krista Fahy, the associate curator of vertebrate zoology at the Museum of Natural History, said tissue samples could help determine how and why the whale died.But wielding an 18-inch blade and trying to lance off a chunk of whale while the animal is being tossed around in strong surf is a dangerous task, Fahy said, so researchers will be back today during lower tides to collect samples, pending the carcass actually being there.
  
  Fahy was not optimistic about the samples, and said the whale is likely rotting.
  
  "[The whale] is probably about three weeks passed," Fahy said.
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  Removal techniques depend on the situation, but Fahy said workers will likely cut the whale up into smaller pieces and either bury them in the sand, or drive them off to a land fill.
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  The other option, Fahy said, is to hire a boat to carry the animal out to sea and "hope it doesn't wash onto someone else's beaches."
  
  Officials are worried for the safety of the whale's teeth.Early Monday morning, Fahy and another witness said the Isla Vista Foot Patrol arrested a man with a sledgehammer, who was apparently trying to knock the teeth out of the sperm whale and take them as a keepsake.
  
  It is a violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act to be in possession of any piece or part of the whale, Fahy said, but people often collect sperm whale teeth, which are particularly appealing to collectors because of their length.
  
  "I think people find [the teeth] kind of attractive," Fahy said.

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  www.bioblitzsb.org/scientists.php - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/12/2008    Last Visited: 1/12/2008  

  Krista Fahy (Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History)

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  www.dunequest.org/Archives/2004/agenda.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2004    Last Visited: 6/28/2009  

  Krista Fahy (Santa Barbara Natural History Museum)

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  CaliforniaHerps.com Acknowledgements - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/15/2006    Last Visited: 10/20/2009  

  Krista Fahy - Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

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  HerpNET Contacts - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/14/2007    Last Visited: 8/19/2009  

  Krista Fahy, Associate Curator SBNHM

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  Museum display has a bare-bones approach - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/30/2005    Last Visited: 10/30/2005  

  They don't like the taste of them," explained Krista Fahy, the museum's associate curator of vertebrate zoology.
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  "They bring us all their birds that don't make it. . . . They drop off their bag every Friday," said Ms. Fahy, who was so intrigued by a visit to the museum's collection when she was a Santa Barbara City College student that she returned to work there a decade later.
  
  While many of the specimens in that osteological grab bag are run-of-the-mill backyard birds, "the more you have, the better it is for studies," Ms. Fahy said.
  
  To maximize the scientific value of each carcass, samples of tissue, feathers, stomach contents and parasites are taken, she said, before it's reduced to a skeleton.
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  Skulls are generally the most useful part of the skeleton, Ms. Fahy said.Bones can even be used to figure out where animals lived, by matching chemical signatures in the bones with those in particular environments, Ms. Fahy said.
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  Krista Fahy holds the foot of a pygmy mammoth, excavated from Santa Rosa Island.

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  News about pelicans and other endangered species - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/7/2005    Last Visited: 7/4/2009  

  Freshwater pelicans feed differently than their ocean-going cousins, said Krista Fahy, a bird expert at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. "They catch food sitting on top of the water," Fahy said. "They don't plunge and dive." They also prefer shallow water; the recharge basins are an average 6 to 10 feet deep. The birds are probably causing a stir here, she said, because people aren't used to seeing them at the ponds. "They're really big, cool birds," she added. http://www.bakersfield.com/updates/story/5784781p-5801420c.html

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  Pituophis catenifer pumilis - Santa Cruz Island Gopher... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/15/2006    Last Visited: 10/20/2009  

  Specimen courtesy of Krista Fahy, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

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  SBCC Biological Sciences Department: Teaching Museum - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/28/2006    Last Visited: 12/29/2007  

  · Krista Fahy takes Biology 3 (Natural History) at SBCC from Genny Anderson
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  Krista will go on to get degrees at UCSB and become a Curator of Vertebrates at the SBMNH

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  SBMNH: About Us > Key Contacts - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/16/2009    Last Visited: 10/16/2009  

  Krista Fahy, Ph.D. Associate Curator of Vertebrate Zoology Ext. 155 kfahy@sbnature2.org

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