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 kind of Shark Week in…
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 cancelled flight in Philadelphia and…
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.
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 Twitter to keep up with…
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 appropriately mobbed by the attendees. …
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 and fisheries management considerably. This…
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 to jellyfish) have recently exploded. …
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 year also saw the official…
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 as that is. This post…
Last weekend I attended the 26th Annual Meeting of the Tidewater Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, better known as AFS Tidewater or just plain Tidewater. To recap, this conference encompasses fisheries academics, students, and managers from the so-called “tidewater region,” which is made up…