Shark research in real time

#SOFOsharks team is tagging #sharks off the south shore of Long Island again, I previously joined this crew to report on their tagging of great whites there, hope they've boated & tagged a few of those, too, so far

Result is priceless data collection on shark behavior

Tagged sand tiger. PC: T. Curtis.

Another beefy sand tiger shark tagged with a @lotektelemetry.bsky.social PSAT to study their habitat use in New York waters! @fishguyphotos.bsky.social

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Photo of a sand tiger shark being caught on rod and reel.

A feisty sand tiger shark about to be tagged and released by the #SOFOsharks team off New York! Just one of 5 different species already tagged this season. 🦈 🦑

Underwater photo of a small white shark

It’s baby white shark season off Long Island, New York! This little one, less than 5 feet long, was photographed yesterday off Southampton. PC: C. Paparo, FishGuyPhotos. #SOFOsharks #WhiteShark

White Sharks’ Return a Good Sign | The East Hampton Star A certain New York City tabloid did its best to sensationalize drone footage captured this month depicting a great white shark a few hundred feet off the Montauk shoreline, but the sighting is neither...

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Photo of a juvenile white shark being tagged

Thanks to @vimsfishmrg.bsky.social for deploying a high-rate PSAT on this beautiful juvie white shark for us! The 2025 field season is underway! 🦈 🦑 🐟

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Anybody in the Hamptons this weekend?

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Scratching the surface: Swimming depths of multiple shark species in New York coastal waters and implications for aerial monitoring

NEW 🦈 PAPER: We tagged 150 sharks of 10 species off New York and assessed their daytime swimming depths. Important implications for aerial monitoring. Great team effort! #SOFOsharks

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Earliest’, ‘closest to shore’ Great White spotting for enthusiast marks start of shark season off Montauk “All just part of what they do every year for as long as we know they’ve been here.”

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Me giving a shark lecture

Greg Metzger giving a presentation to a room full of people

Thanks to @drpetrone.bsky.social and everyone at Eastern New Mexico University for hosting Brad Peterson, Greg Metzger, and I this week! Even in the high plains, students are fascinated by sharks. It was wonderful to engage with this community. 🦈 #SOFOsharks

Baby Sharks in the City poster

Photo of me from the documentary

Another big 2024 highlight was being featured on Nat Geo alongside Greg Skomal, Megan Winton, Greg Metzger, and the #SOFOsharks team! It focused on our efforts to deploy a camera tag on a baby white shark. There really is something special about that little yellow rectangle. Available on Disney+!

Temperature-depth time series plot.

New #SciArt using hi-rez PSAT data from a sand tiger shark the #SOFOsharks team tagged this year. Interesting how little time this shark spent near the surface. 🦈 🦑 🐟 🐡

A small spinner shark

An unexpected 2024 field season highlight was this tiny spinner shark. Caught and released near Moriches Inlet, NY, it’s the northernmost record of a YOY spinner to my knowledge. Somebody prove me wrong. 🦈 🦑 🐟
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Photo of 2 pop-up satellite tags

This year the #SOFOsharks team deployed satellite tags on seven different shark species in NY waters. We were lucky enough to recover over 60% of them, providing high resolution 3D movement data! 🦈

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Yawning sandbar shark

Another 2024 highlight: Tagging this sandbar shark and documenting that it was so boring even the shark yawned. #YawnShark #SOFOsharks

A spinner shark tagged with a PSAT.

Spinner sharks were historically uncommon off Long Island, NY, but they’ve become regular visitors the last several years. In collaboration with the #SOFOsharks team, we’ve tagged a bunch of them. Preliminary results currently in review.