Chapman MagazineThose faces. Even amid a nursery of newborn sea lion pups, two stood out. And then when one flipped its head straight back to get an upside-down view of photographer Tara Salvesen ’19, well, the cuteness vaulted to a whole new level. Salvesen, a news and documentary major, snapped this photo during Chapman University’s annual interterm natural history expedition in the Galapagos Islands. The New Jersey native leapt at the chance to join 13 other student researchers retracing Darwin’s steps and studying species found nowhere else in the world. But during the 10 days of on-site course work, it was the sea lions that captured Salvesen’s heart. “Swimming with them was the coolest thing ever,” she says, adding that the overall course experience “is something I never expected would happen in my entire life.”
Following are more photos from Chapman’s interterm course in the Galapagos Islands:
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