Alissa Richbourg

Thank you so much!! ☺️

#birdphotography

The cutest little black-throated green warbler 🪶🌞 #birds

A rare non-bird post from me! Currently missing the Pacific, so I’m reminiscing on this photo I took of a beautiful humpback whale in Oregon two summers ago! 🩵🐋 #marinebiology #wildlifephotography

So awesome!!

a beautiful Eurasian collared dove 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Two cormorants sitting on a piece of wood over a pond

Cormorant silhouettes 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Microplastics Are Messing with Photosynthesis in Plants Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows

A good part of my job is to read extremely concerning studies in order to compose cross-sectional view of What's At Stake and work out ways to engage stakeholders

This is, without hyperbole, the most concerning thing I have read in a long time www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...

New study shows that 73% of #DeepSea decapods had ingested #microplastics, mostly fibers (91%). Catalan specimens had significantly more MPs than Sardinian ones. A. antennatus had the highest MP load in the Catalan area, Nephrops was the most contaminated decapod in Sardinia.
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Seafoam on an Oregon coast beach at sunrise

Seafoam on the Oregon Coast 🌊
#naturephotography #photography #westcoast

This is gorgeous!! It’s my dream to photograph puffins one day 🤩

Royal tern standing on a beach

Royal Tern spotted at Padre Island National Seashore 🌊🪶 #addBirder

Hi, my name is Alissa! I’m a marine biology master’s student at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi studying the effects of photodegraded plastics on the early life stages of a marine fish model species! I am also an avid wildlife and nature photographer that is passionate about marine conservation! 🌊🦀🐚

Hey there! I’m at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in my second year of research. Currently looking at how chemicals from photodegraded plastics affect the early life stages and development of a model fish species! 😊