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The Manta Trust
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The Shark Spotters
BC Whales | North Coast Cetacean Society (NCCS)
The Acoustic Tracking Array Platform
Tracking pregnant silky sharks in the Red Sea
PROJECT LEADER
Collin Williams
Oceanic manta ray connections
PROJECT LEADER
Simon Hilbourne
Can epaulette sharks become climate change chameleons?
PROJECT LEADER
Aaron Hasenei
Missing the target? Refining spiny dogfish fishery surveys
PROJECT LEADER
Alexandra McInturf
Critical habitats for smalltooth sawfish
PROJECT LEADER
Ashley Mackenzie Dawdy
Saving the giants of Karimunjawa
PROJECT LEADER
Faqih Akbar Alghozali
Communities taking care in Watamu and Mida Creek
PROJECT LEADER
Peter Musila
The tooth about Australia’s sawfish hotspots
PROJECT LEADER
Veronika Biskis
Caring for Cameroon’s sharks and rays
PROJECT LEADER
Ghofrane Labyedh
Seeking ghost shark secrets
PROJECT LEADER
Karly Cohen
Deep trouble: measuring the impact of fishing on Caribbean deep-sea sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Ana Hernández
The Angola Elasmo Project
PROJECT LEADER
Ana Lúcia Furtado Soares
Giant stingrays of the Paraná River
PROJECT LEADER
Diego Martin Vazquez
The guitarfish of Grand-Béréby
PROJECT LEADER
Gilles Florent Soro
Capturing the impact of catches
PROJECT LEADER
David Ruiz García
A Red List of Benin’s sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Houangninan Midinoudewa
The importance of kelp forests for sharks and rays in Chile
PROJECT LEADER
Ítalo Fernández
Who’s eating who? Atlantic guitarfish and the food web
PROJECT LEADER
John Hlavin
Tracking Denmark’s thornback rays
PROJECT LEADER
Kim Birnie-Gauvin
Littering lifetimes: understanding the accumulation of pollution in sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Kylie Rock
Linking pollution and shark health in the Mediterranean
PROJECT LEADER
Licia Finotto
Using DNA to identify the sharks in squalene products
PROJECT LEADER
Madeline Green
The wedgefish of Sungai Kakap
PROJECT LEADER
Muhammad Ichsan
Landing local ecological knowledge on hammerhead sharks in Nigeria
PROJECT LEADER
Lara Fola-Matthews
Setting the baseline: gathering data on rough skates in the Thracian Sea
PROJECT LEADER
Roxani Naasan
Taking the temperature on nurse shark movement patterns
PROJECT LEADER
Sergio Madrigal Mora
DNA barcoding to identify sharks in Vietnam
PROJECT LEADER
Thinh Dinh Do
Correcting shark catch counts in Chile
PROJECT LEADER
Valentina C. Romagnoli
The Bahamas: a beacon of hope for smalltooth sawfish
PROJECT LEADER
Tristan Guttridge
Caribbean connections
PROJECT LEADERS
Steven Kessel, Kevin Feldheim
Sicklefin devil rays in 3D: how are they using space in the Azores?
PROJECT LEADER
Sophie Prendergast
Finding Mexico’s critical shark nurseries
PROJECT LEADER
Ramón Bonfil
On reef manta time at D’Arros, Seychelles
PROJECT LEADER
Rachel Newsome
Unearthing the truth about the common eagle ray
PROJECT LEADER
Michelle Soekoe
The sea’s sheepdogs: tuna and whale shark feeding associations in the Azores
PROJECT LEADER
Jorge Miguel Rodrigues Fontes
Counting eagle rays with close-kin mark-recapture
PROJECT LEADER
John Swenson
It’s elemental: shark life histories from cartilage chemistry
PROJECT LEADER
John Mohan
Community shark conservation in Turks and Caicos
PROJECT LEADER
Jillian Morris
Tracking time through teeth
PROJECT LEADER
Jens Hegg
Guarding sharks in Ghana
PROJECT LEADER
Issah Seidu
Bringing to light the ‘lost sharks’
PROJECT LEADER
Dave Ebert
Guardian Angels
PROJECT LEADER
Danny Copeland
Capacity for community conservation in East Africa
PROJECT LEADER
Cyrus Rumisha
Missing in Macquarie: the case of the disappearing Maugean skate
PROJECT LEADER
Cynthia Awruch
Methods to reduce shark stress
PROJECT LEADER
Brett Sweezey
Manta and devil rays of the Canary Islands
PROJECT LEADER
Alicia Rodríguez Juncá
Climate change at the end of the earth: sevengill sharks in Fiordland, New Zealand
PROJECT LEADER
Alice Rogers
Failure to launch: what’s happening with Seychelles’ turtle and tortoise eggs?
PROJECT LEADER
Alessia Lavigne
Searching for sawfish in northern Peru
PROJECT LEADER
Alejandra Mendoza Pfennig
Same, but different: distinguishing blacktip shark populations in the Gulf of Mexico
PROJECT LEADER
Addie Binstock
Food security and the future for sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Ana Barbosa Martins
Keeping watch on winghead sharks in Papua New Guinea
PROJECT LEADER
Yolarnie Amepou
Making sense of sharks, electromagnetic fields and magnetic senses
PROJECT LEADER
Kyle Newton
Can eco-engineering make a man-made ocean fish-friendly?
PROJECT LEADER
Vivienne Dames
Trawling for solutions for effective guitarfish conservation
PROJECT LEADER
İsmet Saygu
Conserving largetooth sawfish on the Amazonian coast
PROJECT LEADERS
Patricia Charvet, Vicente Faria
Connecting local fishers, their histories and the halavi guitarfish
PROJECT LEADER
Victor Alati
The sustainability of shark fisheries in Indonesia
PROJECT LEADER
Citra Septiani
Getting to grips with sharks and rays in India’s fisheries
PROJECT LEADER
Imran Samad
Nurseries for giant guitarfish of the Andaman Islands
PROJECT LEADER
Evan Nazareth
Turning the tide for sharks in Tunisia’s Gulf of Gabes
PROJECT LEADER
Rihab Louhichi
Tracking declines in protected waters
PROJECT LEADER
Muhammad Wiralaga Dwi Gustianto
The guitarfish of Goa, western India
PROJECT LEADER
Trisha Gupta
Bringing up baby: shark embryos and our warming oceans
PROJECT LEADER
Noémie Coulon
An eye on the eagle rays of northern Chile
PROJECT LEADER
Ana Maria Garcia Cegarra
Going round in circles: clarifying the distribution of round stingrays in the Mexican Pacific
PROJECT LEADER
Ana Castillo-Páez
Sharks of the deep in the Sulu Sea
PROJECT LEADER
Titus Cañete
The thresher sharks of Rhun Island
PROJECT LEADER
Rafid Shidqi
Nurseries for Florida’s protected whitespotted eagle ray
PROJECT LEADER
Ariadna Rojas Corzo
Rising temperatures, shrinking rays?
PROJECT LEADER
Buddhi Pathirana
Night moves
PROJECT LEADER
Martina Lonati
Learning from sharks to combat microplastics
PROJECT LEADER
Samantha Leigh
Essential habitats for smooth hammerheads
PROJECT LEADER
Miguel Gandra
Deep trouble? Gulper sharks and longline fisheries in New Zealand
PROJECT LEADER
Brittany Finucci
Protecting the African wedgefish in Ghana
PROJECT LEADER
Bernard Eshun
On a knife-edge: saving sharpnose guitarfish in the Bay of Bengal
PROJECT LEADER
Durjoy Raha Antu
Sustainability for Chilean houndshark fisheries
PROJECT LEADER
Carolina Vargas-Caro
Tracking shark-like rays in Taiwan
PROJECT LEADERS
Wei-Chuan Chiang, Kevin Weng
On a mission for missing information about ‘mini mantas’ in the Gulf of Mexico
PROJECT LEADERS
Kim Bassos-Hull, Atlantine Boggio-Pasqua
Ghost birds of St Joseph Atoll
Changing coral — assessing reef health
Motivation behind movements — the home range of sharks
Accelerometers on sharks?
An Island Refuge
A new way to count white sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Anna Simeon
Karimunjawa – the last hope for Java’s giants?
PROJECT LEADER
Faqih Akbar Alghozali
The same but different? Clarifying the origin of bonnethead sharks in Panama
PROJECT LEADER
Cindy Gonzalez
Sevengills sharks in San Francisco Bay
PROJECT LEADER
Meghan Holst
California’s cryptic angels
PROJECT LEADER
Massiel Alfonso González
Shark Conservation Fund
PROJECT LEADER
Lee Crockett
1001 Seaforest Species
PROJECT LEADERS
Craig Foster, Jannes Landschoff
Documenting biodiversity in Colombia’s Malpelo MPA
PROJECT LEADER
Sandra Bessudo
Hammerheads of the Bay of Bengal
PROJECT LEADER
Nazia Hossain
Shedding light: assessing LAMP to identify sharks in Mexico’s trade
PROJECT LEADER
Alexis Jiménez-Pérez
Kelp! Important ocean forests for sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Emiliano García-Rodríguez
Taxonomy and phylogeny of sharks and rays in Mauritania
PROJECT LEADER
Carolina de la Hoz Schilling
Forecasting the future: pollution and sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Franco Cristiani
Home sweet home for Colombian hammerheads
PROJECT LEADER
Maria Alejandra Herrera
The ghost of oceans future
PROJECT LEADER
Lucille Chapuis
Forever young: new ways to age sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Brandon Mahan
The elephant in the room: are two populations actually one?
PROJECT LEADER
Francisco Concha
Pinpointing new information for Nigeria’s pincushion ray
PROJECT LEADER
Segun Olayinka Oladipo
Gut feeling: the impact of heavy metals on shark microbiomes
PROJECT LEADER
Miguel A. Tripp Valdez
Going viral: understanding viral RNA diversity in sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Fabiana Neves
Coming home: movement patterns of Australian bull sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Nicolas Lubitz
Not just a FAD: protecting silky sharks in fishing hotspots
PROJECT LEADER
Bryan Keller
Baby blues? Female blue sharks in Irish waters
PROJECT LEADER
Jenny Bortoluzzi
Coping with climate: is it in the genes?
PROJECT LEADER
Eloise Cave
Guitarfish on Mexico’s medicinal market
PROJECT LEADER
Bryan Huerta Beltrán
Clues from the past to guide the future
PROJECT LEADER
Eric Guiry
The right reefs for sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Nico Fassbender
Important Shark and Ray Areas
PROJECT LEADERS
Lynn Sorrentino, Ciaran Hyde, Rima Jabado
Searching for sawfish in Indonesian seas
PROJECT LEADER
Yunita Wakhida
Disentangling the drivers of Antarctic Peninsula penguin colony declines
PROJECT LEADER
Tom Hart
Rapid-DNA-testing gives hope for ‘rhino rays’ in Hong Kong
PROJECT LEADER
Demian Chapman
Combining community and genetics for conservation in Cameroon
PROJECT LEADER
Aristide Takoukam Kamla
Mediterranean guitarfishes: addressing fisheries pressure and market demand
PROJECT LEADERS
Ali Hood, Rebecca Gillham
Linking local knowledge and local hearts to save the sharks of Holbox Island
PROJECT LEADER
Nadia Rubio
The heat is on: how might rising temperatures affect shark reproduction?
PROJECT LEADER
Carolyn Wheeler
Don’t be caught sleeping: proactive conservation research for Pacific sleeper sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Michael Wang
Amending the understanding of deep-sea Gulper sharks of India
PROJECT LEADER
Ebeena Francis
Gill Guardians: An Elasmobranch Conservation and Education Hub
PROJECT LEADER
Jasmin Graham
All about sawfish in the Bahamas: tracking movement, breeding and nurseries
PROJECT LEADER
Dean Grubbs
Rhino ray conservation in Indonesia
PROJECT LEADER
Een Irawan Putra
Protecting rhino-rays in the world’s largest bay
PROJECT LEADER
Alifa Bintha Haque
Satellite tracking shortfin mako sharks in the South Atlantic
PROJECT LEADER
Nuno Queiroz
Community-supported conservation goals for Scalloped Hammerhead
PROJECT LEADERS
Kelly Kingon, David Portnoy
Marine protected areas to conserve highly migratory sharks in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
PROJECT LEADER
Randall Arauz
Changing hearts and minds about Southern Florida’s sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Julia Wester
Conservation for Cameroon’s sharks and rays
PROJECT LEADER
Lionel Yamb
All about the bottlenose: an Endangered wedgefish in Malaysia
PROJECT LEADER
Amanda Jhu Xhin Leung
Does habitat-use change with age for cownose rays?
PROJECT LEADER
Ashley Mackenzie Dawdy
Raising awareness of the critically endangered flapper skate in Northern Ireland
PROJECT LEADER
Heidi McIlvenny
Understanding the amulet trade of bowmouth guitarfish in Thailand
PROJECT LEADER
Jennifer Pytka
Unraveling the amphi-American guitarfishes: genetics, morphology, and biogeography of guitarfishes
PROJECT LEADER
Fernanda Rocha
Protecting the sharkiest place on earth
PROJECT LEADER
Pelayo Salinas
Identifying nursery habitats and determining life history of Guitarfish in Sri Lanka
PROJECT LEADER
Gobiraj Ramajeyam
Protecting North America’s largest no-take marine protected area
PROJECT LEADER
Alejandro Gonzalez
Mexico’s forgotten sharks: rediscovering a natural legacy
PROJECT LEADER
Ilse Alejandra Martinez
A genetic tool to help monitor sharks and skates in the North-east Atlantic
PROJECT LEADER
Catherine Jones
Solutions for shark fisheries in a Surfer’s Paradise
PROJECT LEADER
Hollie Booth
What’s the catch? Understanding shark catches in large-scale, data limited artisanal fisheries.
PROJECT LEADERS
Daniel Fernando, Jordan Moss
It’s in the Genes: conserving Cabo Verde’s blackchin guitarfish populations
PROJECT LEADER
Kirsti Ann Burnett
Re-writing the sawfish story: Inspiring community driven conservation of sawfishes in Papua New Guinea
PROJECT LEADER
Michael Grant
The clown wedgefish: no laughing matter
PROJECT LEADER
Peter Kyne
Providing sawfish education for global conservation action
PROJECT LEADER
Jeff Whitty
Sharks of the Sulu Sea
PROJECT LEADER
Sally Snow
Sustainable science in the deep blue sea
PROJECT LEADER
Diana Catarino
Which nursery is best for Peru’s baby smooth hammerhead sharks?
PROJECT LEADER
Eduardo Segura
British shark life: are spurdog siblings sticking together?
PROJECT LEADER
Fenella Wood
The deep-water sharks of Puerto Rico
PROJECT LEADER
Glorimar Franqui-Rivera
Of sharks, salmon and sea-farms
PROJECT LEADER
Joaquín Soto
Can deep-sea sharks survive – and thrive – in fishing grounds?
PROJECT LEADER
Sofia Graça Aranha
Temperature-driven movement patterns of blacknose sharks in Florida Bay and the Florida Keys
PROJECT LEADER
Blake Hamilton
Searching for the river sharks and rays of Borneo
PROJECT LEADER
Andrew Chin
Protecting the threatened sharks and rays of the Republic of Congo
PROJECT LEADER
Phil Doherty
Assessment of catch and bycatch of guitarfishes in Peruvian waters
PROJECT LEADER
Elizabeth Gutiérrez Llanos
The importance of Seychelles for blue whales, and other whales and dolphins
PROJECT LEADER
Jeremy Kiszka
Conservation strategies for hammerhead sharks nursery in the Galapagos Marine Reserve
PROJECT LEADER
Eduardo Espinoza
Hvaldimir: the lost beluga whale
PROJECT LEADER
Lindsay Rubincam
The Whole Tooth
PROJECT LEADER
Isla Hodgson
Searching for the sharks and rays of Greece’s South Aegean Sea
PROJECT LEADER
Ioannis Giovos
Better the devil you know
PROJECT LEADER
Ellen Barrowclift
Flapper skate family ties
PROJECT LEADER
Tanja Schwanck
A lifeline for Libya’s angel sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Sarah Al Mabruk
Tracing Tanzania’s illegal shark product networks
PROJECT LEADER
Cyrus Rumisha
Stingrays, Pollution and… their Microbiome?
PROJECT LEADER
Kady Lyons
Tracks: tagging the shark-like rays of Pilbara
PROJECT LEADER
Karissa Lear
Training and tools to save bowmouth guitarfish
PROJECT LEADER
Emily Humble
Close-kin and eagle ray conservation
PROJECT LEADER
John Swenson
Saving Kenya’s ocean ‘rhino’
PROJECT LEADERS
Andrew Temple, Nina Wambiji
Can corals recover at D’Arros Island?
PROJECT LEADER
Phil Hosegood
Catch up: understanding India’s ray fisheries
PROJECT LEADER
Alissa Barnes
Filling in the gaps for Ghana’s shark fisheries
PROJECT LEADER
Issah Seidu
Secret lives of silky sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Brendan Talwar
Age Restriction: Predicting Patterns for Short-Fin Mako Shark
PROJECT LEADER
John Mohan
Of algal blooms and bull sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Lauran Brewster
Secrets of the whale sharks of the Galápagos Marine Reserve
PROJECT LEADER
Jonathan Green
Searching for ‘El Guacapa’ with eDNA
PROJECT LEADER
Juan Cubillos Moreno
Back to basics: bottlenose wedgefish biology
PROJECT LEADER
Brooke D’Alberto
A new use for old things: saving sawfishes with repurposed rostra
PROJECT LEADER
Veronika Biskis
Tracing sawfishes in the last habitats of Costa Rica
PROJECT LEADER
Mario Espinoza
Connecting communities to conservation
PROJECT LEADER
Juan Sebastián Torres
Building future conservation leaders in The Bahamas
PROJECT LEADER
Anshena Johnson
The Sharks of West Bengal
PROJECT LEADER
Sushmita Mukherji
Environmental education in the Seychelles
PROJECT LEADER
Terence Vel
BC Whales
PROJECT LEADER
Janie Wray
Swiss long distance swimmer
PROJECT LEADER
Renato Munz
New Education Centre in West Papua
PROJECT LEADER
Jonas Müller
Microplastics a macro-disaster?
PROJECT LEADERS
Alina Wieczorek, Giulia Donati
Decoding DNA for diversity
PROJECT LEADER
Glorimar Franqui-Rivera
Community conservation in the Caribbean
PROJECT LEADER
Catherine Macdonald
Assessing Angola’s fisheries
PROJECT LEADER
Ana Lúcia Furtado Soares
Breaking ground with Bimini’s babies
PROJECT LEADER
Andria Beal
Honing in on habitats
PROJECT LEADER
Alifa Bintha Haque
Shark survival from the shore
PROJECT LEADERS
Jill Brooks, Hannah Medd
Home on the Lemon Shark Range
PROJECT LEADER
Evan Byrnes
Curbing conflict in Cape Cod
PROJECT LEADER
Greg Skomal
What’s happening with wedgefish?
PROJECT LEADER
AA Yaptinchay
Mediterranean diet: are rays on the menu?
PROJECT LEADER
Chrysoula Gubili
Fisheries in far-flung places
PROJECT LEADER
Gabriela Ochoa
Searching for sharks in South Asian seas
PROJECT LEADER
Ravi Ranjan Kumar
Catch-up: Mexico’s shark fisheries
PROJECT LEADER
Luz Saldaña-Ruiz
It’s in the genes
PROJECT LEADER
Dominic Swift
Eat or be eaten
PROJECT LEADER
Cheston Peterson
Getting to the bottom of by-catch
PROJECT LEADERS
Don Croll, Melissa Cronin
Baselines for butterfly babies
PROJECT LEADER
Jaime Penadés Suay
On the ray-dar
PROJECT LEADER
Kevin Crook
DNA Fingerprinting shark fins
PROJECT LEADER
Derek Kraft
The sawfish sleuth
PROJECT LEADER
Tonya Wiley
Playing for time
PROJECT LEADER
Dave Ebert
Better days for mobulid rays
PROJECT LEADER
Josh Stewart
Guardian angels
PROJECT LEADER
Jake Davies
Toxic traces in endangered sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Mariana Martins
There’s something about sawsharks…
PROJECT LEADERS
Jane Williamson, Paddy Burke
From the boat to the vote
PROJECT LEADER
Diego Cardeñosa
On-site ID: take-away tech for threatened sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Kirsty Shaw
Keeping tabs on tiger shark moms
PROJECT LEADER
Matthew Smukall (PhD)
Galápagos Marine Education Programme
PROJECT LEADER
Daniela Vilema
Global Sawfish Search
PROJECT LEADER
Colin Simpfendorfer
Sawfish conservation, Mexico
PROJECT LEADER
Ramón Bonfil
Sawfish aerial survey
PROJECT LEADER
James Kilfoil
Sawfish eDNA, USA
PROJECT LEADER
Gregg Poulakis
Sawfish status, PNG
PROJECT LEADER
William White
Sawfish hunt: return to Senegal
PROJECT LEADER
Nigel Downing
Bonnetheads – magneto sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Bryan Keller
The starting point for saving Albania’s sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Rigers Bakiu
Kick-starting ELMO – the secret lives of South Africa’s catsharks
PROJECT LEADER
Lisa Schroeter
The great South African white shark count
PROJECT LEADER
Dylan Irion
Migration mechanics, USA
PROJECT LEADER
Marianne Porter
Rays of paradise
PROJECT LEADER
David Jiménez
What will global warming mean for sea turtles?
PROJECT LEADER
Nicolas Pilcher
Fishers of Mafia Island
PROJECT LEADER
Patroba Matiku
Sawfish status, Indonesia
PROJECT LEADER
Dharmadi Dharmadi
Sawfish gene-pool
PROJECT LEADER
Nicole Phillips
Project AIRSHIP
PROJECT LEADER
Kye Adams
Seafood detectives, Guatemala
PROJECT LEADER
Ana Hacohen
Sharks and rays of the Arabian Seas
PROJECT LEADER
Rima Jabado
Fish and fishers of the Colombian Seas
PROJECT LEADER
Camila Cáceres
Nurturing shark and ray science in Mexico
PROJECT LEADER
Josh Stewart
Shark persona
PROJECT LEADER
Félicie Dhellemmes
Saving sharks in Sabah
PROJECT LEADER
Mabel Manjaji-Matsumoto
Lost fishes of Easter Island
PROJECT LEADER
Naiti Morales Serrano
Do stingrays have superpowers?
PROJECT LEADER
Kyle Newton
What’s on the menu for sharks and rays?
PROJECT LEADER
Diana Churchill
Sea Turtle Hospital: the cancer unit
PROJECT LEADER
David Duffy
The Grouper family
PROJECT LEADER
Krista Sherman
Sharks and people of Watamu MPA
PROJECT LEADER
Peter Musembi
Ocean Connectors: sharks and their threats
PROJECT LEADER
Frances Kinney
Sharks of Peninsula Valdes
PROJECT LEADER
Alejo Irigoyen
Shark Aerial Patrol
PROJECT LEADER
Lachlan Fetterplace
Global protection for devil rays
PROJECT LEADER
Isabel Ender
Great Barrier Reef’s sharks of the deep
PROJECT LEADER
Sam Munroe
New tag, better tracking
PROJECT LEADER
Giulia Cerritelli
The shark/turtle predator/prey dynamic
PROJECT LEADER
Mariana Fuentes
Pacific mobulids: unwanted catch
PROJECT LEADER
Nerea Lezama-Ochoa
Catching devils on camera
PROJECT LEADER
Ana Sobral
The manta code continues
PROJECT LEADER
Jane Hosegood
Fishes of St Joseph: where, when & why?
PROJECT LEADER
Emily Moxham
The Watermen Project
PROJECT LEADER
William Winram
Keeping sharks and rays in the Quirimbas
PROJECT LEADER
Isabel da Silva
Sawfish safehouse
PROJECT LEADER
Barbara Wueringer
Sharks on the urban edge
PROJECT LEADER
Alison Kock
Sharks in the birthplace of evolution
PROJECT LEADER
Euan Harvey
Return to the unknown: discovering deep-sea sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Paul Clerkin
Global tiger shark connections
PROJECT LEADER
Andrea Bernard
Shark CSI: conserving sharks through genetic investigation
PROJECT LEADER
Christine Testerman
Connecting oceanic whitetips
PROJECT LEADER
Cassandra Ruck
Andros Island: a lifeboat for sawfishes?
PROJECT LEADER
Dean Grubbs
Deep-dwelling and little-known
PROJECT LEADER
Ivy Baremore
Refuges and risks: transboundary tiger sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Ryan Daly
Pollutants in pelagic predators
PROJECT LEADERS
Kady Lyons
Shark Share Global
PROJECT LEADERS
Madeline Green, Lauren Meyer
Shark skin time travel
PROJECT LEADER
Erin Dillon
The old men and the sea
PROJECT LEADER
Mareike Dornhege
Creating conservation heroes
PROJECT LEADER
Daniela Cruz
Sharks4Kids App
PROJECT LEADER
Derek Burkholder
Keeping watch on Palmyra’s sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Darcy Bradley
Neptune Islands: cages, sharks & seals
PROJECT LEADER
Lauren Meyer
Makos: nomads of the high seas
PROJECT LEADER
David Sims
Seeking Madagascar’s sawfishes
PROJECT LEADER
Ruth Leeney
City slickers: Miami’s sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Neil Hammerschlag
Great Bear LIVE
PROJECT LEADER
Diana Chan
Unravelling the mystery of smooth-hound sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Simo Maduna
Angel of the Canary Islands
PROJECT LEADER
Eva Meyers
Drone diaries of The Bahamas
PROJECT LEADER
Stephanie Buhler
The Acoustic Tracking Array Platform
PROJECT LEADER
Taryn Murray
Activities at the Shark Lab
PROJECT LEADERS
Matthew Smukall, Samuel H. Gruber (1938 - 2019)
Rebranding sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Christopher Neff
Market for mobulids
PROJECT LEADER
Mohanraj Theivasigamani
Britain’s basking sharks
PROJECT LEADER
Cat Gordon
Latin America’s devil rays
PROJECT LEADER
Ramón Bonfil
Pacific plastics expedition
PROJECT LEADERS
Matthew Rutherford, Nicole Trenholm
Sea turtles on D’Arros
PROJECT LEADER
Jeanne A. Mortimer
Sharks & rays of paradise
PROJECT LEADER
Rachel Graham
Blue water, white tips
PROJECT LEADER
Demian Chapman
Shark DNA workshop
PROJECT LEADER
David Kacev
False Bay on film
PROJECT LEADER
Lauren de Vos
Mobulid ray conservation
PROJECT LEADER
Guy Stevens
Baby sharks sharing space
PROJECT LEADER
Ornella Weideli
Tracking hungry hawksbills
PROJECT LEADER
Rainer von Brandis
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White shark central
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Whale sharks down under
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Lara Marcus Zamora
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The manta code
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Academy by the Sea
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Sharks on the line
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The big BRUV
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Greenland sharks: old and cold
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Peter Bushnell
Do no-take reserves conserve coastal sharks?
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Shark Advocates International
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The Shark Specialist Group
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Nick Dulvy
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Nick Dulvy
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Leslie Noble
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Abbie Hine
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Lucy Keith Diagne
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