@sharkmagneto.bsky.social right up your straße if you're coming to SI chap

🔗 Want to learn more? doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

Thanks to our funders for supporting this project: Discovery Shark Week, @myfahlo.bsky.social, The Lackland Foundation and Storm Story. Thanks to all the volunteers who attended research expeditions and have supported us since our inception.

Why Important:
🔹Expands GHH ecological knowledge in NW Atlantic; some individuals stay in the Bahamas all year.
🔹So the Bahamas shark sanctuary could be an all-year refuge, key for regional GHH rebuilding goals.
🔹We must analyse genetic samples to see how these GHH fit in the NW Atlantic population.

🔹Year-round residency of Andros-caught GHH in Bahamas w/ site-fidelity to & high use of habitats along Andros reef dropoff & flats.
🔹Possible mating + small juvenile sightings: Andros could be a reproduction ground.
🔹GHH mainly ate barracuda & small sharks/rays, linking pelagic & shoreline foodwebs.

Lead author @andreakroetz.bsky.social has just joined bsky, welcome!

Press release: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor... and paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...; LMK if you can't access the PDF.

Spring may bring an exciting shark movement modelling project, helping conserve these endangered creatures. I'm blessed to work with friends on projects for a better planet. I hope you've got positives to look forward to & your life is enriched by the connections you've made and work you do.

2025 starts with a workshop in San Diego with mid-career shark scientists, discussing shared challenges & building a support network we hope will benefit us for years to come. I'm also running the 1st US West Coast alumni meetup for Hampton School alumni on April 17 in San Francisco.

I was profiled in my school magazine issuu.com/hamptonschoo... and interviewed by BBC radio and the Potato Sisters podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

With a stellar team, I co-first-authored a paper in top journal Science Magazine, explaining the ecological role of sharks, and why it’s so important to protect them www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... thanks SayoStudio, Marc Dando, & Kylene Gilmore

We revealed what causes differences in shark communities in the world’s largest shark sanctuary, French Polynesia. Congrats Dr. Naomi Frances Farabaugh www.int-res.com/prepress/m14...

With NOAA Fisheries we modelled juvenile smalltooth sawfish habitat in SW Florida, highlighting challenges and conservation opportunities (link coming soon).

I was grateful to be included with Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford colleagues on work showing how bluefin tuna would be affected by a nuclear accident in Spain pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39317088

With Saving the Blue & Atlantic White Shark Conservancy we reported the first evidence of white sharks in the Bahamas www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Four years in the making, with friends from Bimini (2006), GMIT (2013), and @fiu.bsky.social (2021), we showed the movement & hunting patterns of lemon sharks across tides & as they grew up tinyurl.com/yz83yasj