Presenting one chapter of my PhD today for World Fisheries Congress. Tune in to hear about some of the awesome work on non-target species we have been completing 🐟

Very excited to have our paper published in Fishery Bulletin!

Otoliths are useful tools for studying growth in #fish : the latest paper from SouthernSharkEG, led by #PhDstudent Joshua Dennis, looked at how they can be used to study #environmental drivers of growth in common jack mackerel and redbait. Check out their findings below!

Success! All receivers recovered and re-deployed for another year of VPS array at the Neptunes Islands monitoring white sharks, kingfish, and trevally @SAEnvirWater Marine & Coastal Research Consortium great job by all SouthernSharkEG students. Thanks to IMOS Animal Tracking @vemcoteam for support

Congrats to Maddie Riley @roberts_sci Joshua Dennis Joshua Davey for their presentation to virtual AMSA 2023 Conference #AMSA21

Congrats to Joshua Dennis for receiving a student award from Holsworth ESA towards his PhD project on non-target species in wildlife tourism (trevally sp. at the Neptune Islands) Thanks Ecological Society of Australia @SAEnvirWater Calypso Star Charters Rodney Fox Matt Waller for support

Not the typical environment for a conference, but a great virtual talk nonetheless! Well done Joshua Dennis on your presentation looking at different methods to measure abundance of trevally for the 2020 ASFB conference!

Happy to tick off my first milestone, stay tuned for exiting things to come

Thanks to the production team which supported several research projects during the filming of the white shark segments including projects of Lauren Meyer Maddie Riley Thomas Clarke Joshua Dennis

One year down for the PhD, and a full year of trevally detections in the bank, excited to see what the data shows!

This clip highlights a question asked by Lauren Meyer from the SouthernSharkEG in one of her recent publications on how wildlife tourism provisioning affects non-focal species. It’s a very interesting study. Have a read at the link below.

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100% recovery thanks to Innovasea VR2AR and IMOS Animal Tracking Recovered, downloaded, serviced, and redeployed for another year of acoustic monitoring of white sharks, kingfish and trevally Integrated Marine Observing System

Eerily quiet airport this morning... quite fitting for a field trip to download Innovasea receivers to look at the effects of reduced human activities during COVID-19 restrictions on animal movements

Shalyah Evans 👍 #AbandonedWaters recap
1. also featured Maddie Riley's #shark deterrent research. Yay for #WomenInSTEM 👩‍🔬
2. correct - no coms just means no chit chat. We usually don't dive w/ coms anyway 🔇
3. The fish are WAY more stressful than the sharks! Subject of Joshua Dennis's PhD 🐟

Thanks to the amazing lab members of the SouthernSharkEG for a very well orchestrated surprise today!! Sasha Whitmarsh Joshua Davey missing in the photo

An awesome shot of how we test different deterrents around white sharks - using the stereo camera so that we can measure how close the sharks get to the experimental setup. Extra points to whoever can spot a Trevally tagged by Joshua Dennis.

The end of an era... the lab used as an office space for >5 yrs is finally getting renovated into proper offices. Stay tuned for completed pic in ~4 weeks

A bit late for #SharkAwarenessDay , but I think this octopus was quite aware of this swell shark and tried to have a cheeky nibble. #BRUVS #GreatSouthernReef #TeamFish #TeamCephalopod

Haven’t been to this spot before: Pages Conservation Park. If you zoom in and squint, you can sea the Endangered Australian Sea Lion relaxing at the top of the island. Acoustic receiver recovery time Integrated Marine Observing System IMOS Animal Tracking @vemcoteam

Another beautiful sunrise on the water. Time for more #SharkScience