Meet the team behind ISAF and learn about their diverse research projects
Meet the Researchers: Joe Miguez
Joe Miguez is a masters student at FPSR studying gene expression in stingrays. 1. Where are you from? I am…
Memoirs of an Internship, 2022
Hi! My name is Alexia Cosman, and I am the 2022 Florida Program for Shark Research Intern! I am now…
New Smyrna fieldwork: Part 3
Several days later, the ash had blown away, and we got another opportunity to search for the existing receivers with…
New Smyrna Fieldwork: Part 2
After our last trip, I had made some adjustments to the design of our long line but needed a special…
New Smyrna Fieldwork: Part 1
Part of every experiment is the collection of data. As a field biologist, that means I have to go where…
The fear of sharks
“It’s all psychological. You yell barracuda, everybody says, “Huh? What?” You yell shark, we’ve got a panic on our hands…
Fieldwork during COVID: A journey to Seahorse Key
How does someone do field science in the age of COVID-19? Your guess is as good as mine. After waiting…
King of the sharks!
James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” premieres today and among the colorful cast is the menacing yet endearing King Shark. The…
Shark bytes: A data science approach to fifty years of shark bites
The International Shark Attack File (ISAF) Databases of all sizes are traditionally assumed to be the domain of industry and…
Arctic sharks
As the year comes to a close, winter begins to cool the northern hemisphere, and we enter the holiday season…