I'm super excited for #IMCC3 , and loved #Sharks14 #AES2014 and #scio14, but 4 conferences in a year is too many. One next year. Maybe 2.
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Check out all the #AES2014 #JMIH14 tweets arranged in Storify stories. So much #SharkScience ! www.facebook.com/whysharksmatter/posts/71... Please RT!
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At #AES2014 , the @ElasmoSociety Board of Directors decided to shut down the Elasmo-L listserv and instead use online discussion forums.
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Please stop me from bidding on auction items I don't need. Good cause but yeah don't need. #AES2014
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That's it for #AES2014 ! So much #SharkScience ! In the ancient words of my people, "next year in Reno".
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#AES2014 Lyons: Female round stingrays can offload contaminants into their offspring
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#AES2014 Lyons: Kady put a hashtag in the talk for me- #flatSharksRULE
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#AES2014 Lyons: Marine mammals and bony fish are better studied for bioaccumulation and toxins than sharks and rays
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#AES2014 Lyons: Many toxic organochlorines are now banned, but they persist in the environment. Designed to last long.
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#AES2014 Lyons: DDTs and PCBs are well known organochlorines
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#AES2014 The last talk of the conference is Kady Lyons "bioaccumulation of organochlorine in stingrays"
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My #AES2014 talk is done- thanks for the support all!
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Time for my #AES2014 talk- wish me luck! Will RT tweets about it in 15 minutes
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#AES2014 MacDonald: Because of the value of beach tourism, governments need to do something to allay fears of sharks. Even if ridiculous.
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#AES2014 MacDonald: Beach tourism in the U.S. alone is worth 1000x the global value of all #Shark SCUBA ecotourism
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The next #AES2014 talk is "policy preferences of elasmobranch researchers" by David Shiiiiiiit that's me gotta run. #JMIH14
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#AES2014 MacDonald: 40 #sharks in the Maldives are worth $173,000 each to tourism. Does not mean all sharks in the world are worth $173,000
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#AES2014 MacDonald: In aggregate, sharks are worth much more dead than alive (global fisheries vs. global tourism)
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#AES2014 MacDonald: For many regions, beach tourism is more economically valuable than SCUBA tourism.
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#AES2014 MacDonald: No evidence that SCUBA ecotourism has long-term impacts on attitudes towards sharks or resulting human behavior change.
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#AES2014 MacDonald: Shark tourism said to be more valuable for fishermen than fishing, but it isn't the former fishermen who make the money.
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#AES2014 MacDonald: Ecotourism has been shown to have negative impacts on birds, mammals (land and sea), etc.
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#AES2014 MacDonald: Changes in #shark diet, habitat use, physiology have been detected as a result of dive ecotourism
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#AES2014 MacDonald: Problems with shark ecotourism: alters habitat use, causes stress, makes sharks associate people/boats w/food
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#AES2014 MacDonald: "Wildlife can fund its own conservation through tourism" has become a popular idea. True, but many limits
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