Category Archives: sharks

The Future

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Chuck

Posts have been a little sparse here for the past month or so, and it’s because I’ve been spending a lot of time a.) finishing up my first year of PhD school, and b.) setting up a new batch of … Continue reading →

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Busy Times, in a Good Way

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Chuck

Apologies for the lag time between posts this week.  I was going strong, but then the end of the semester reared its ugly head.  I’ll likely be slow getting stuff up in the next week or so as I deal … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, dorkiness, grad school, North Carolina, sharks, spiny dogfish | 7 Comments

Great White Sharks Attack Whales. Seriously.

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Chuck

During a literature search for some dissertation-related stuff I stumbled upon quite possibly the most awesome paper ever for a shark fan.  It’s well-known that sharks, especially large, migratory species, supplement their diet of fish and sea mammals by scavenging … Continue reading →

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The Most Badass Fish in the Sea

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Chuck

You might think that the title of this post refers to the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), the main species of interest for this blog.  You’d be wrong.  You’d also be wrong to guess the great white, as badass a shark … Continue reading →

Posted in behavior, cephalopods, ecology, research blogging, sharks | 7 Comments

Blacktip or Spinner?

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Chuck

During my last trip out to the field, I documented a small shark that came up in the gillnet, and identified it as a juvenile blacktip shark.  Now, after looking over the picture in better detail and consulting the literature, … Continue reading →

Posted in methods, mystery fish, North Carolina, sharks | 9 Comments

Cape Hatteras Doggin’

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Chuck

After most of a semester in the office, I finally managed to get out on the water this past weekend.  I traveled down to Hatteras with Andrea to help out with the latest piece of his project tracking different life … Continue reading →

Posted in fishing, gill nets, grad school, North Carolina, photography, research, sharks, spiny dogfish | 3 Comments

The Hammerhead Incident

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Chuck

What happens when a surf fisherman in Miami lands an enormous great hammerhead on Super Bowl Sunday?  A conversation about regulations, engaging stakeholders, and my first attempt at Storify.  Read on.

Posted in conservation, fishing, sharks | 4 Comments

The Social Shark Network

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Chuck

Recently Jason Goldman at the great blog The Thoughtful Animal (if you have any interest in animal behavior at all, you should be following it) put up a post titled “Sharks With Friends.”  In that post, he summarizes a recent … Continue reading →

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Happy Fishmas to All

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Chuck

Whatever your flavor of yuletide cheer, have yourself a quality Christmas Eve.  Here’s that most secular of winter holiday icons giving the gift of tasty fish to sand tiger sharks in Auckland, NZ.

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Thresher Sharks vs. Whales – Finding Melville’s Shark?

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Chuck

Back in the day (earlier this year) Andrew at Southern Fried Science had a series of posts called “Finding Melville’s Whale,” in which he poetically summarized chapters of the Herman Melville classic (and required reading for anyone serious about the … Continue reading →

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