Our mission

The major focus of the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Center USA (SOSF-SRC) is to conduct targeted and impactful scientific research to improve management, conservation, recovery and understanding of the world’s sharks and rays.
What we do

A hallmark of the SOSF-SRC is that it specialises in taking integrative, multi-disciplinary approaches to research and conservation, which include combining high-tech genetics, genomics and field work to illuminate holistically aspects of shark and ray science that would be difficult to decipher using single-discipline approaches alone.
Where we are

The SOSF-SRC is located in Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center building in Dania Beach, Florida, USA. The five-storey building opened in September 2012, with an architectural theme inspired by the ocean.
Latest centre news
The journey to acoustically tag endangered and critically endangered hammerheads
By Jade Schultz, 7th March 2023
Maria wants to help identify good areas to establish no-take zones for marine protected areas (MPAs) to protect hammerhead species. Her project focuses on scoophead and scalloped bonnethead sharks, and scalloped hammerhead sharks, which co-occur on Colombia’s Pacific coast. By looking at the variability in the type of habitats that…
It’s all in the genes
By Jade Schultz, 18th January 2023
A glimmer of hope for Critically Endangered scalloped hammerheads in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Collaborative research led by scientists at the Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) Shark Research Center at Nova Southeastern University, and a network of regional researchers, suggests comparatively high genetic diversity and connectivity in populations of this…
Past to Future: breakthrough as great hammerhead and shortfin mako genomes sequenced
By Jade Schultz, 4th January 2023
Tiny fragments of DNA. That’s where this 250,000-year-old story begins for two endangered shark species. The speed and agility of a hunter like the shortfin mako, the mystery and nomadism of the great hammerhead shark isolated into small pieces that read like hints and clues to those versed in their…
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