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Earlier this month I was accepted to the Rummer Lab to join in on the physioshark project for its third year. Beginning in 2014, the primary objective of the physioshark project is to develop a physiological understanding of how juvenile sharks in nursery habitat around Moorea, French Polynesia cope with the conditions of a stressful … Continue reading Physioshark 2016-2017

Our manuscript "Swimming speeds and metabolic rates of semi-captive juvenile lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris, Poey) estimated with acceleration biologgers" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. Understanding an animal's activity levels and rates of energy expenditure (i.e., metabolic rate) in the wild is important because it provides details on a … Continue reading Lemon shark biologging paper accepted by JEMBE