After getting most of the financial issues under control, I can finally formally announce that I’ll be joining in on the annual meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society (AES), which this year is part of the World Congress of Herpetology (usually it meets as part…
Late last summer, I embarked with an intrepid crew of Duke grad students to track bull sharks in the Neuse River. We came up empty-handed that time, but a year later I found myself going back for another crack at catching, tagging, and following the…
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…
Apologies for the lag time between posts this week. I was going strong, but then the end of the semester reared its ugly head. I’ll likely be slow getting stuff up in the next week or so as I deal with the typical PhD end-of-semester…
Just to clarify, that previous post was intended to be an April Fool’s joke. Apparently it was a lot more convincing than my “pictures of dogfish attacking a pelican” post from last year, and is now threatening to go viral as a legitimate news story. …
Way to totally overshadow my post about makos, guys. In case you haven’t been following, filmmaker and ocean enthusiast (seriously, have you seen The Abyss?) James Cameron has made it to the Challenger Deep, also known as the bottom of the Marianas Trench, also known…
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…
I’ve officially survived my first Science Online, and returned mostly intact. This gathering of scientists, journalists, bloggers, and others came together in Raleigh from Wednesday to Saturday, and created one of the most unique conference experiences I’ve had so far. Never have I seen…
Just wanted to take this moment to wish a happy new year to all readers, fellow ocean bloggers, and people stumbling across this on the internet. Make sure you have a safe place to land if you overindulge, and may next year make this year…
Whatever your flavor of yuletide cheer, have yourself a quality Christmas Eve. Here’s that most secular of winter holiday icons giving the gift of tasty fish to sand tiger sharks in Auckland, NZ.