Category Archives: ecology

Predation

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Chuck

A quick look around this blog will tell you that I’m very interested in fish eating other fish.  My Master’s research was on the feeding habits of spiny dogfish, and I’ve tried to keep up with the literature on shark-related … Continue reading →

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Misunderstanding and Abusing Ecosystem-based Management

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Chuck

That ever-reliable settler of internet arguments, Wikipedia, defines ecosystem-based management as “an environmental management approach that recognizes the full array of interactions within an ecosystem.”  At heart, this type of management is supposed to keep all the cogs of an … Continue reading →

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Shark Week 2012 in Review

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Chuck

Before I duck into my annual review of Shark Week, I have a confession to make: I didn’t manage to see all of Shark Week this year.  In my defense, it was because I was participating in an entirely different … Continue reading →

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AES 2012 Aftersharks

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Chuck

Now that I’ve gotten your attention with that cringeworthy pun in the title, I’d like to put up a quick post on my overall thoughts on AES 2012 and the host city.  This took a couple days due to a … Continue reading →

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AES 2012: Day 4 Highlights

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Chuck

The last day of AES talks wrapped up today.  It’s always a little melancholy to see this conference end, but one must get back to real life sometime.  Here are the highlights from Day 4.

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AES 2012: Day 2 Highlights

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Chuck

What a busy day.  I’ve only got a little bit of time to get this up before I have to head over to the poster session, and I saw a lot of very good talks today.  Keep following #AES2012 on … Continue reading →

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AES 2012: Day 1 Highlights

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Chuck

AES has officially begun!  The first day of the World Congress of Herpetology (referred to as “AES” from here on out, because that’s the part I care about, no disrespect to the scalies) kicked off with free breakfast, which was … Continue reading →

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Notes on Some of Those 79 “New” Shark Species

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Chuck

By now it’s somewhat old news that a recent study by Gavin Naylor and other researchers from all over (freely available here) has revealed that there may be up to 79 previously undiscovered shark and ray species, which complicates conservation … Continue reading →

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Declining Predators eat Mediterranean Jellies

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Chuck

It wasn’t my intention to keep picking on the Mediterranean, but this paper was just too damn interesting.  In the Mediterranean, like many other marine environments worldwide, numbers of jellyfish and ctenophores (those really colorful comb jellies, actually not related … Continue reading →

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My Thesis: The Liner Notes

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Chuck

Whew.  What a semester end that was (I’m still trying to survive the fallout).  The first year of the PhD is down, and with it hopefully most of my class load so I can get to the fun stuff.  This … Continue reading →

Posted in dorkiness, ecology, grad school, milestone, North Carolina, spiny dogfish, striped bass | 1 Comment