Introducing @danwmont.bsky.social, a recipient of our Small Grant.
We look forward to following along as Daniel works to define key reproductive habitats for Critically Endangered tope sharks.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/wher...
Photos by Jake Davies
#SOSF2025Projects
In my degree I remember being inspired by projects funded by @saveourseas.bsky.social so its a mini full-circle moment to see myself listed as a project leader (complete with sketch portrait) for them this year! Read about our 2025 small grant here: tinyurl.com/45fj3yj8
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@zslofficial.bsky.social
Photos uploaded in the wrong order! It's actually linnet (1), stone chat (2), cirl bunting (3)!
A nice mix of female #farmlandbirds during yesterday's ringing session. Cirl bunting (1), stone chat (2), and linnet (3)! #birds @btobirds.bsky.social 🧪
Amazing work by the team - looking forward to building on their work with our 🦈 tracking studies over the next year!
📢 New 🧪 from Project SIARC using eDNA to investigate 🦈 distributions in Wales.
🔍 9 species + Critically Endangered angelshark and tope detected
📅 Detections peaked in spring
🌍 Predicted that animals were within 15 km of sampling locations
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🐟🦑 #marinelife
Fascinating to join a #CSIoftheSea with the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme team on two Angelsharks that were found on a North Wales beach in 2023.
🔎 Samples from the sharks will provide vital data on health, diet, reproductive patterns, and connectivity across the East Atlantic.
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Lots of people told me "I can't arrange a whole group, but if you can make it so individuals can get a spot on a shark research trip, I'd love to come!"
Now is your chance! If this works, we'll do it again.
After a few weeks off, I've returned to the news that 2 of our #tope have been recorded on a telemetry array in South Wales/England! Fantastic to get 1st detections of our animals and insight into #connectivity between MPA's in Wales + England. Where will our sharks go next? #ProjectSIARC #ZSL
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Tope are a mid sized shark species which reach a max length of ~2 m and a weight of ~50 kg - so far we've been mainly tagging immature sharks (~1-1.3m) and ~5-10 kg. We are aiming to tag some adults next year to find out if they are using N. Wales as an area to give birth!
A licenced researcher fitting an ID tag to a tope shark which is held in a custom tagging cradle. Tagging typically takes less than 10 minutes, during which a pump is used to supply water to the sharks gills at all times. All tagging is conducted under home office licence.
My day job is more fish orientated! I'm leading research for #ProjectSIARC, the
#OceanPredatorLab, and #ZSL to investigate movements of Critically Endangered tope (soupfin) sharks in North Wales, UK - a seasonal hot-spot! 🧪🐟🦈🐙
#trackingnotslacking #sharkscience
I'm slowly working towards my
@btobirds.bsky.social
ringing permit in my spare time. Much more arduous task than my Home Office licence for fish tagging! Thrilled to have rung my first kingfisher a few weeks ago, though. What a beauty #birds #ringing #kingfisher
Got to get the hang of bluesky! Boosting this post to relevant feeds! 🐟🧪🐙🌎
Great to see two more papers from postdoc work at UBC Zoology published over the last few weeks addressing smolt physiology!
#fishsci #aquaculture #atlanticsalmon #smoltification
Open access articles can be found here:
doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15957
doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2024.741699
