This past week my latest paper, published in F1000 Research as part of their Elasmobranch Biology and Conservation collection, officially passed peer review. This paper summarizes data collected from some spiny dogfish captured during the Back and Core Sound shark survey that seemed to be…
One of the many projects that have been consuming time that could be spent blogging is the acoustic telemetry project ECU has been involved with off of Cape Hatteras. Last year saw me take over the day-to-day running of this valuable piece of equipment, from…
Today was the fourth and last day of presentations for this year’s AES. The real shark week ended with a bang, featuring this year’s only concurrent pair of shark sessions. As a result, I definitely missed some talks I wanted to see in order to…
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 a couple of field/lab projects…
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 managed to actually play 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. …
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 couple occasions before, and it…
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. What actually happened was quite…
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. …
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, I’m not so sure. I’m…