As those of you who follow me on Twitter have probably already noticed, this week I’m at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, an annual meeting of fish and reptile researchers that includes the American Elasmobranch Society. It’s a great way to meet up…
The inshore shark survey got some press this week. Reporter Josh Birch from WNCT rode along with last week’s night trip to capture some North Carolina shark science in action. We caught a nice blacktip, and adorable baby sharpnose, and a decent-sized stingray on camera,…
Well, that brief break from blogging escalated quickly. Between a number of housecleaning tasks (both literal and metaphorical) and the onset of field season, I managed to let an entire month slip by without posting. Which is not to say post-worthy things didn’t happen. To…
Some of you may recall a couple years ago (the summer of 2012) I had a series of posts under the category “Summer of the Shark” recounting the events of my field work trying to survey Pamlico Sound for sharks. The purpose of that project…
North Carolina’s weather has never been what you’d call predictable, especially off of Cape Hatteras (all those shipwrecks have to come from somewhere). That said, what I saw yesterday while tagging sharks off of Hatteras takes the cake. During what had been an uncharacteristically nice…
A couple quick updates about things that have really slowed down my posting, but have definitely been worth it. First off, SciREN was a great time. It was awesome meeting all the teachers interested in bringing marine and coastal science into their classrooms, and also…
Earlier this month, I quietly added a new page called Teaching Resources to the blog. At the time it was just a placeholder, but now it represents my attempt to use this space for things other than recaps of papers, field work and conferences. As…
Last week (January 22nd-26th) a couple of my labmates and I headed down to Charleston, South Carolina for the spring meeting of the American Fisheries Society’s Southern Division (referred to from here on in as SDAFS). This meeting gets researchers from the Southeast and Gulf…
I’ll be making a couple public appearances this winter, so here’s where you can track me down. Next week I’ll be in lovely Charleston, South Carolina for the spring meeting of the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society. I’ll be presenting the latest results…
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…