Category Archives: grad school

Dogfish Puke on the Beach

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Chuck

You may have noticed that it’s been two and half months since something went up here.  I can assure you, I’ve been a busy little grad student in that time.  One of the reasons is that I’ve been working on … Continue reading →

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Winter of the Shark: It Pays to Know People

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Chuck

This past weekend marked a new venture into shark-related field work.  For the better part of two months I’ve been fighting the good fight to keep ECU’s acoustic array up off of Cape Hatteras, and last Friday and Saturday finally … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Acoustic Telemetry

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Chuck

One of the reasons posting has been so sparse lately is that I’ve been busy putting gear together, scheduling, breathlessly paying attention to the weather, and finally getting out on the water to work on the acoustic array off of … Continue reading →

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Still Swimming

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Chuck

Well, that was an entirely unintentional month off.  Apologies to those checking for regular updates (especially since I hinted they would be coming in the last post… on October 18th).  I won’t dodge the issue: I’ve officially hit the rough … Continue reading →

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Summer of the Shark: Best Red Drum Survey Ever

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Chuck

In fisheries and marine science you have days that, by any objective standard, should be an amazing day in the field.  You get a ton of samples, the gear (mostly) works as planned, you find out some interesting stuff, and … Continue reading →

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Summer of the Shark: Stingray City

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Chuck

My summer-long (likely into a little bit of autumn) quest to find sharks in the Pamlico Sound took me to the waters of the Neuse River this past Thursday.  I’ve been out on the Neuse looking for sharks on a … Continue reading →

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Summer of the Shark: Back to the Pamlico

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Chuck

Tuesday saw Evan, Andrea, and I head back to the Pamlico River to cover it with the longline (you can see why it was missing last time here) in my brave/foolish attempt to see if there are any sharks in … Continue reading →

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Summer of the Shark: Warts And All, Mostly Warts

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Chuck

Some field days just don’t go well.  This past Thursday I went out with Evan and Jeff to do a little opportunistic shark sampling in the Pamlico River while they were out collecting water samples for a striped bass project.  … Continue reading →

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Summer of the Shark: Hatteras Blues

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Chuck

Field work season has officially begun.  On Wednesday and Thursday I set out for Hatteras and Ocracoke with labmate Evan and his brother Austin to test the gear, get an idea of how much sampling can happen in a day, … Continue reading →

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Summer of the Shark: Prologue

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Chuck

As mentioned earlier, this summer I’ll be starting the first of several shark-related projects that should (hopefully) add up to my dissertation.  The first is a summer pilot study that aims to find shark hot spots in Pamlico Sound.  Tomorrow, … Continue reading →

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