Projects
Project directory
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 LEADER Kelly Kingon
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
Holding onto hope: long-term coral reef monitoring in southern Seychelles
PROJECT LEADER Nigel Downing
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
Ghost birds of St Joseph Atoll
Motivation behind movements — the home range of sharks
Accelerometers on sharks?
Changing coral — assessing reef health
An Island Refuge
PROJECT LEADERS ,
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 cownose 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 Candice Brittain
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 Lucia 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 Paul Cowley
Activities at the Shark Lab
PROJECT LEADERS Matthew Smukall (CEO), 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
Turtle Action Group Seychelles
PROJECT LEADER Jeanne A. Mortimer
Shark spy: bird’s eye view
PROJECT LEADER Johann Mourier
Sharks for sale in India
PROJECT LEADER Dipani Sutaria
Shark tunes
PROJECT LEADER Andrew Nosal
Sawfishes: spreading the love
PROJECT LEADER Barbara Wueringer
Underwater shark surveillance
PROJECT LEADER Jeremy Kiszka
ID shot: southern right whales
PROJECT LEADER Katja Vinding Petersen
Giant clams: turning up the heat
PROJECT LEADER Sue-Ann Watson
Lemon sharks: familiar friends?
PROJECT LEADER Bryan Keller
Hunting for porcupines
PROJECT LEADER Andrew Chin
Giants of Peru
PROJECT LEADER Dení Ramirez-Macias
Tracking hammerheads in Japan
PROJECT LEADER Austin Gallagher
A tale of three sharks
PROJECT LEADER David Shiffman
Conserving mobulas under fire
PROJECT LEADER Mohammed Abudaya
WiSe on the Water
PROJECT LEADER Colin Speedie
Undulate ray genetics
PROJECT LEADER Eric Stephan
The Great Eggcase Hunt App
PROJECT LEADER Cat Gordon
A stingray’s story
PROJECT LEADER Chantel Elston
Discovering deep-sea sharks
PROJECT LEADER Paul Clerkin
Do marine parks need sharks?
PROJECT LEADER Justin Rizzari
Tracking Bimini’s sharks
PROJECT LEADERS Matthew Smukall (CEO), Vital Heim
Finny the Funny Shark
PROJECT LEADER Tova Harel Bornovski
Shark kryptonite
PROJECT LEADER Eric Stroud
Pristine habitat, pristine population
PROJECT LEADER Lauren Peel
Sea eagles of the Caribbean
PROJECT LEADERS Kim Bassos-Hull, Robert Hueter
Protecting Pakistan’s mantas
PROJECT LEADER Rab Nawaz
Decoding desert sharks
PROJECT LEADER Igbal Elhassan
Rediscovering sawfishes in West Africa
PROJECT LEADER Armelle Jung
Fighting fish bombers
PROJECT LEADER Elizabeth Wood
Hard-eating stingrays
PROJECT LEADER Matt Ajemian
Global manta & devil ray conservation
PROJECT LEADER Nick Dulvy
Fishing for devil rays
PROJECT LEADER Liliana Ayala
White shark central
PROJECT LEADER Alison Towner
White shark population
PROJECT LEADER Charlie Huveneers
Manta network Philippines
PROJECT LEADER Shannon Arnold
Mobile sharks
PROJECT LEADER Frances Humber
Fishing, fins and food
PROJECT LEADER Steve Trent
Shark tourism: friend or foe?
PROJECT LEADERS Richard Fitzpatrick, Adam Barnett
Which mobulid is which?
PROJECT LEADER Daniel Fernando
Whale sharks down under
PROJECT LEADER Lara Marcus Zamora
Critical habitat for sharks
PROJECT LEADERS Juliana López-Angarita, Alex Tilley
The manta code
PROJECT LEADER Emily Humble
Tight lines and easy release
PROJECT LEADER Betty Bauman
Cetacea Lab
PROJECT LEADERS Janie Wray, Hermann Meuter
The Great Eggcase Hunt
PROJECT LEADERS Ali Hood, Cat Gordon
Mermaid’s purse
PROJECT LEADER Eleonora de Sabata
Micronesia Shark Foundation
PROJECT LEADER Tova Harel Bornovski
Academy by the Sea
PROJECT LEADER David Rowat
Sharks on the line
PROJECT LEADER Tamzyn Zweig
The big BRUV
PROJECT LEADER Lauren de Vos
Greenland sharks: old and cold
PROJECT LEADER Peter Bushnell
Do no-take reserves conserve coastal sharks?
PROJECT LEADER Jayson Semmens
Shark Advocates International
PROJECT LEADER Sonja Fordham
‘Shark bite’: what’s in a word?
PROJECT LEADER Christopher Neff
The Shark Specialist Group
PROJECT LEADER Nick Dulvy
The sawfish report
PROJECT LEADER Nick Dulvy
Saving Indonesia’s manta rays
PROJECT LEADER Sarah Lewis
The shark that got lost: Mediterranean great whites
PROJECT LEADER Leslie Noble
Marine education in the Seychelles
PROJECT LEADER Abbie Hine
Secrets of the African manatee
PROJECT LEADER Lucy Keith Diagne
Where do tiny turtles go?
PROJECT LEADER Jeanette Wyneken
Ocean acidification: our changing seas
PROJECT LEADER Jason Hall-Spencer
Djibouti’s baby giants
PROJECT LEADER David Rowat
The Shark Riddle
PROJECT LEADERS Laura Sams, Robert Sams
Shark Spotters
PROJECT LEADER Sarah Waries
Sea turtles of Malaysia
PROJECT LEADER Nicolas Pilcher
Cayman sharks
PROJECT LEADER Mauvis Gore
Manta ray bay
PROJECT LEADER Guy Stevens
Zambezi sharks
PROJECT LEADER Meaghen McCord
