No one was harmed in the process of this shark handling workshop!

Trauma training is an important part of our safety measures for shark handling. Here students are handling a fake (but very realistic looking) emergency scenario.

This was truly an unexpected discovery by PhD Candidate Devanshi Kasana while taging tiger sharks! FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab

This #ScienceSaturday is all about blacktip #sharks cruising the #FL coast for their annual #migration . Want to learn more? View a recording of the panel event we hosted with The Palm Beach Post and #scientists from Shark Migration @floridaatlantic & Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab FIU!

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Please join us in celebrating Erin Spencer, who successfully defended her dissertation yesterday! Her research looked at the energetics, behavior, and thermal tolerance of great hammerhead sharks.

Congratulations Dr. Spencer!

Congrats to Candace Fields (Candace Fields) for passing her proposal defense!!

Her work assesses the impact of The Bahamas shark sanctuary on economically and ecologically important species including the critically endangered oceanic whitetip shark. Congratulations Candace!

Visualise & quantify space use of lots of animals: github.com/SimonDedman/mo… on CRAN; automates dBBMM modelling & plotting. Thx to coauthor Maurits van Zinnicq Bergmann, PhD 🥳

New paper lead by Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab graduate Sarah Luongo, PhD, and coauthored by Shedd research staff, used energetics and acoustic telemetry to predict increased consumption rates of Nassau grouper under future climate scenarios

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Great to see the Biology and FIU Marine Biology grad students present their work at Biosymposium on Saturday. And congratulations to the lab’s own Sara Schoen for winning first place in the 15 min presentation category! FIU Institute of Environment FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education FIU GradSchool Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab

However, this change may be reduced in habitats with high prey productivity. Ecological Society

New paper lead by recent Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab graduate Sarah Luongo, PhD. We use energetics and telemetry to estimate consumption rates of Nassau grouper. The proportion of prey consumed varies by habitat on coral reefs and may increase 24% with future climate scenarios. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Meet Yannis Papastamatiou! 👋

Yannis (@dr_yannis) is a behavioral #ecologist & associate prof at FIU in the Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab. His lab studies behavioral & physiological ecology of #sharks , rays & fish, 👀 at their roles in their #environment .

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New review paper in Functional Ecology
Brilliantly led by Yannis Papastamatiou

We provide a theoretical framework on how the energy landscapes of predators can be combined with the fear landscapes of prey.
With terrestrial & marine examples
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New paper! Dynamic energy landscapes of predator may modulate risk in prey. We provide a framework to link the two through foraging theory. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Still on cloud 9! #PhDone 🥳

Well done Sarah Luongo, PhD on defending an excellent PhD on the energetics of coral reef and pelagic fishes!

Please join us in celebrating Sarah Luongo, PhD, who successfully defended her dissertation yesterday!

Dr. Luongo assessed the energetics, behavioral strategies, & space use of dolphinfish and Nassau grouper. Congratulations Dr. Luongo, we are so excited for you!

We had the pleasure of welcoming @Eagles_IMS SciQuest Academy @PBCSD onboard #rvANGARI for our first #CoastalOceanExplorers : Sharks expedition of the 23-24 school year with FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education!

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#TY #SciQuestAcademy sponsors for supporting this expedition.

Shark in the Dark 🦈Researchers carefully collect data from this nurse shark, a protected species in #Belize , to help monitor population health. The shark was promptly released after the workup.

For more, watch 'Sharks in Belize: Jaguars of the Sea” youtu.be/10Bh3F6PxzA

Yesterday, ​ANGARI crew & FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education scientists welcomed inquisitive Palm Springs Middle #STEMrays aboard #rvANGARI for a #CoastalOceanExplorers : Sharks expedition exploring #marinescience research & careers. Thank you @Society4science STEM Action Grant program for making this possible!

I wrote my first review! My thoughts on Meg 2, spoilers included
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