Natalie Klinard
@natklinard.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Marine Behavioural Ecology group at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. Working with acoustic telemetry to create a digital twin of animal movement in the North Sea 🐟
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Natalie Klinard
@natklinard.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hi folks! My name’s Natalie and I’m currently doing my PhD on the ecological roles and abundance of sharks on coral reefs in the Integrated Fisheries Lab at Dalhousie Uni in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 I live and study remotely in Adelaide, South Australia 🇦🇺 Lover of movement ecology + fish tracking
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Today’s second #ASFB2025 plenary was from Madeline Green, who took us from her fishing-obsessed childhood to current research using molecular monitoring to help manage fisheries 🧬🎣
Madeline received the ASFB’s ERC International Travel Award, allowing her to visit Iceland to present her research ✈️
Madeline received the ASFB’s ERC International Travel Award, allowing her to visit Iceland to present her research ✈️
August 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Today’s second #ASFB2025 plenary was from Madeline Green, who took us from her fishing-obsessed childhood to current research using molecular monitoring to help manage fisheries 🧬🎣
Madeline received the ASFB’s ERC International Travel Award, allowing her to visit Iceland to present her research ✈️
Madeline received the ASFB’s ERC International Travel Award, allowing her to visit Iceland to present her research ✈️
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Western Australia's ‘longest and most intense’ marine heatwave killed coral across 1,500km stretch
- Scientists shocked by bleaching event that hit reefs from the world heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore Reef
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Scientists shocked by bleaching event that hit reefs from the world heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore Reef
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
WA’s ‘longest and most intense’ marine heatwave killed coral across 1,500km stretch
Scientists shocked by bleaching event that hit reefs from the world heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore Reef
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Western Australia's ‘longest and most intense’ marine heatwave killed coral across 1,500km stretch
- Scientists shocked by bleaching event that hit reefs from the world heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore Reef
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Scientists shocked by bleaching event that hit reefs from the world heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore Reef
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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My first-first author paper is out! We found that overall healing in sharks was comparable between sutured and non-sutured incisions. But sutured incisions had significantly more bacteria present. www.publish.csiro.au/wr/pdf/WR25009 Forever thankful to Jordan Matley & @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
My first-first author paper is out! We found that overall healing in sharks was comparable between sutured and non-sutured incisions. But sutured incisions had significantly more bacteria present. www.publish.csiro.au/wr/pdf/WR25009 Forever thankful to Jordan Matley & @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
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Despite lots of work already being done, these aspects (movement, trophic interactions, and demographics) are often studied in isolation. But they are each a piece of the puzzle. Often times there are taxonomic biases in research. This doesn't even cover the rays! @natklinard.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Despite lots of work already being done, these aspects (movement, trophic interactions, and demographics) are often studied in isolation. But they are each a piece of the puzzle. Often times there are taxonomic biases in research. This doesn't even cover the rays! @natklinard.bsky.social
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Sharks and rays can play many ecological roles (predators, prey, vectors, etc). The functional roles of individuals scale up depending on the ecological context. And there are many questions to consider @natklinard.bsky.social @johnwayne5.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Sharks and rays can play many ecological roles (predators, prey, vectors, etc). The functional roles of individuals scale up depending on the ecological context. And there are many questions to consider @natklinard.bsky.social @johnwayne5.bsky.social
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New Paper led by @natklinard.bsky.social We lay out a framework for assessing the ecological roles of reef sharks (but widely applicable) incorporating movement, trophic/community, and life history/population dynamics. w/@johnwayne5.bsky.social and A MacNeil
doi.org/10.1111%2Fbr...
doi.org/10.1111%2Fbr...
Defining ecological roles of sharks on coral reefs
Sharks have often been perceived to play a critical role in the dynamics of coral reef ecosystems globally. Yet, there is relatively little evidence to support this idea across all but a limited set ...
doi.org
August 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
New Paper led by @natklinard.bsky.social We lay out a framework for assessing the ecological roles of reef sharks (but widely applicable) incorporating movement, trophic/community, and life history/population dynamics. w/@johnwayne5.bsky.social and A MacNeil
doi.org/10.1111%2Fbr...
doi.org/10.1111%2Fbr...
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Effects of marine heatwave driving ‘foreseeable’ SA algal bloom could rival black summer fires, scientists warn
Effects of marine heatwave driving ‘foreseeable’ SA algal bloom could rival black summer fires, scientists warn
As Senate establishes inquiry into the ‘human-mediated disaster’, a report is calling for more long-term action
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Effects of marine heatwave driving ‘foreseeable’ SA algal bloom could rival black summer fires, scientists warn
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𝑀𝑜𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑦𝑎𝑟𝑎, a new cryptic species of Manta Ray, is described from the Western Atlantic Ocean. The existence of an undescribed manta ray species has been suggested for over 15 years and is now formally described. 🐟🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An integrative taxonomy investigation unravels a cryptic species of Mobula Rafinesque, 1810 (Mobulidae, Myliobatiformes), from the Atlantic Ocean - Environmental Biology of Fishes
Manta and devil rays comprise a vulnerable animal group with a complex nomenclatural history and a somewhat unresolved taxonomy. The existence of a putative undescribed species of manta ray in the Atl...
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July 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
𝑀𝑜𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑦𝑎𝑟𝑎, a new cryptic species of Manta Ray, is described from the Western Atlantic Ocean. The existence of an undescribed manta ray species has been suggested for over 15 years and is now formally described. 🐟🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A bit late but excited to share that I defended my PhD a couple of months ago and moved to Germany to start a postdoc at the GEOMAR Centre for Ocean Research Kiel working on creating a digital twin of animal movement in the North Sea using acoustic telemetry data as part of the DTOTrack project ☺️
June 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A bit late but excited to share that I defended my PhD a couple of months ago and moved to Germany to start a postdoc at the GEOMAR Centre for Ocean Research Kiel working on creating a digital twin of animal movement in the North Sea using acoustic telemetry data as part of the DTOTrack project ☺️
Excited to have our recent review on the successes and challenges of integrating acoustic telemetry research into management within the Great Lakes selected as CJFAS’s Editor’s Choice article ☺️ check out the open access article at the link below!
⭐ Editor's Choice ⭐
#AcousticTelemetry provides key insights into fish behaviour and movement, but challenges exist with integrating research and management in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Read the Review from @natklinard.bsky.social et al ➡️ cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
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#AcousticTelemetry provides key insights into fish behaviour and movement, but challenges exist with integrating research and management in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Read the Review from @natklinard.bsky.social et al ➡️ cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
🐟 🧪
cdnsciencepub.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Excited to have our recent review on the successes and challenges of integrating acoustic telemetry research into management within the Great Lakes selected as CJFAS’s Editor’s Choice article ☺️ check out the open access article at the link below!
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New #sharkscience led by Vinay Udyawer
Professional fishers’ knowledge informs distribution and interaction dynamics of Sawfish and River Sharks in coastal fishing grounds...
Amazing insights from fisher interviews about their changing interactions through time
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Professional fishers’ knowledge informs distribution and interaction dynamics of Sawfish and River Sharks in coastal fishing grounds...
Amazing insights from fisher interviews about their changing interactions through time
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Professional fishers’ knowledge informs distribution and interaction dynamics of Sawfish and River Sharks in coastal fishing grounds of the Northern Territory, Australia - Maritime Studies
Through their time at sea professional fishers possess and obtain invaluable knowledge and insights into the behaviour, distribution, and abundance of both target and non-target species. Their observa...
link.springer.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
New #sharkscience led by Vinay Udyawer
Professional fishers’ knowledge informs distribution and interaction dynamics of Sawfish and River Sharks in coastal fishing grounds...
Amazing insights from fisher interviews about their changing interactions through time
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Professional fishers’ knowledge informs distribution and interaction dynamics of Sawfish and River Sharks in coastal fishing grounds...
Amazing insights from fisher interviews about their changing interactions through time
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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Thank you to @theglobeandmail.com for highlighting the uncertainties over Great Lakes research, not just in the US but also Canada.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Uncertainty looms over research conference as U.S. science cuts and tariff tensions mount
Across the Great Lakes, researchers fear the Trump administration’s blunt orders to downsize government could endanger critical monitoring programs on both sides of the border
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Thank you to @theglobeandmail.com for highlighting the uncertainties over Great Lakes research, not just in the US but also Canada.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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writing another review where I point to the Table 2 Fallacy (doi.org/10.1093/aje/... and doi.org/10.1017/psrm...) and say stop interpreting every single coefficient
The Table 2 Fallacy: Presenting and Interpreting Confounder and Modifier Coefficients
Abstract. It is common to present multiple adjusted effect estimates from a single model in a single table. For example, a table might show odds ratios for
doi.org
March 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
writing another review where I point to the Table 2 Fallacy (doi.org/10.1093/aje/... and doi.org/10.1017/psrm...) and say stop interpreting every single coefficient
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Seems like an opportune time to remind the world that evidence is important and should inform or be the basis for decisions of all types - health, social supports, education, the environment, etc. environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Environmental evidence in action: on the science and practice of evidence synthesis and evidence-based decision-making - Environmental Evidence
In civil society we expect that policy and management decisions will be made using the best available evidence. Yet, it is widely known that there are many barriers that limit the extent to which that...
environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Seems like an opportune time to remind the world that evidence is important and should inform or be the basis for decisions of all types - health, social supports, education, the environment, etc. environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014
February 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014
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It's National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Learn more about control efforts for sea lampreys, which now face setbacks as federal staff cuts threaten progress — despite the Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s recent announcement of lake trout’s full rebound: www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/lake...
Lake trout recovery in Superior sign of lamprey removal success | Great Lakes Now
Learn more about control efforts for sea lampreys, crucial to lake trout recovery, which now face setbacks as federal staff cuts threaten progress, despite GLFC's recent announcement of lake trout's f...
www.greatlakesnow.org
February 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It's National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Learn more about control efforts for sea lampreys, which now face setbacks as federal staff cuts threaten progress — despite the Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s recent announcement of lake trout’s full rebound: www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/lake...
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Spending $20M per year to protect a multibillion dollar fishery is obviously a wise investment - as is apparent to anyone whose intelligence has not been eroded by extremist political ideology.
www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/trum...
www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/trum...
Trump firings hit Great Lakes sea lamprey program, Michigan forestry workers | Great Lakes Now
Fish and wildlife officials tasked with holding back a species that would otherwise decimate the Great Lakes fishery were among those caught up in a mass purge of federal workers.
www.greatlakesnow.org
February 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Spending $20M per year to protect a multibillion dollar fishery is obviously a wise investment - as is apparent to anyone whose intelligence has not been eroded by extremist political ideology.
www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/trum...
www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/trum...
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Where giants roam: The importance of remote islands and seamount corridors to adult tiger sharks in the South Pacific Ocean 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Where giants roam: The importance of remote islands and seamount corridors to adult tiger sharks in the South Pacific Ocean 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New paper!📣Bio-logging is transforming our understanding of animal behaviour and environments. This paper, co-authored by our director of data operations, @jdpye.bsky.social, outlines a vision for creating dynamic digital archives through standardized data platforms: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Animal-borne electronic tags, or bio-loggers, are increasingly used for research and wildlife conservation. This Perspective discusses the importance of standardization, long-term archiving and sharin...
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February 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
New paper!📣Bio-logging is transforming our understanding of animal behaviour and environments. This paper, co-authored by our director of data operations, @jdpye.bsky.social, outlines a vision for creating dynamic digital archives through standardized data platforms: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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TrackdAT is now updated to include all papers published through 2024, bringing us to a total of 2826 articles!! Check out the website to explore the new data and sign up to export it 🐟🦈📊
February 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
TrackdAT is now updated to include all papers published through 2024, bringing us to a total of 2826 articles!! Check out the website to explore the new data and sign up to export it 🐟🦈📊
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New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk
👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends
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👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends
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December 5, 2024 at 10:05 PM
New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk
👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends
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👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends
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Hey #FishTrackers!
This is the account of the 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry that will be hosted by the @glatos-fish.bsky.social in Traverse City, Michigan in USA in June 8-13, 2025.
Follow for updates!
This is the account of the 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry that will be hosted by the @glatos-fish.bsky.social in Traverse City, Michigan in USA in June 8-13, 2025.
Follow for updates!
Abstract submission is now live for the 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry. For all details regarding the conference, please check out the website at event.fourwaves.com/7thicft/pages
International Conference on Fish Telemetry (7th ICFT)
Fourwaves - International Conference on Fish Telemetry (7th ICFT)
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December 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Hey #FishTrackers!
This is the account of the 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry that will be hosted by the @glatos-fish.bsky.social in Traverse City, Michigan in USA in June 8-13, 2025.
Follow for updates!
This is the account of the 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry that will be hosted by the @glatos-fish.bsky.social in Traverse City, Michigan in USA in June 8-13, 2025.
Follow for updates!