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.
Check out all the #AES2014 #JMIH14 tweets arranged in Storify stories. So much #SharkScience ! www.facebook.com/whysharksmatter/posts/71... Please RT!
Magnolia likes her present from the @ElasmoSociety store. #aes2014 #jmih14 http://t.co/S4e6eoCxBy
At #AES2014 , the @ElasmoSociety Board of Directors decided to shut down the Elasmo-L listserv and instead use online discussion forums.
Please stop me from bidding on auction items I don't need. Good cause but yeah don't need. #AES2014
That's it for #AES2014 ! So much #SharkScience ! In the ancient words of my people, "next year in Reno".
#AES2014 Lyons: Female round stingrays can offload contaminants into their offspring
#AES2014 Lyons: Kady put a hashtag in the talk for me- #flatSharksRULE
#AES2014 Lyons: Marine mammals and bony fish are better studied for bioaccumulation and toxins than sharks and rays
#AES2014 Lyons: Many toxic organochlorines are now banned, but they persist in the environment. Designed to last long.
#AES2014 Lyons: DDTs and PCBs are well known organochlorines
#AES2014 The last talk of the conference is Kady Lyons "bioaccumulation of organochlorine in stingrays"
My #AES2014 talk is done- thanks for the support all!
Time for my #AES2014 talk- wish me luck! Will RT tweets about it in 15 minutes
#AES2014 MacDonald: Because of the value of beach tourism, governments need to do something to allay fears of sharks. Even if ridiculous.
#AES2014 MacDonald: Beach tourism in the U.S. alone is worth 1000x the global value of all #Shark SCUBA ecotourism
The next #AES2014 talk is "policy preferences of elasmobranch researchers" by David Shiiiiiiit that's me gotta run. #JMIH14
#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
#AES2014 MacDonald: In aggregate, sharks are worth much more dead than alive (global fisheries vs. global tourism)
#AES2014 MacDonald: For many regions, beach tourism is more economically valuable than SCUBA tourism.
#AES2014 MacDonald: No evidence that SCUBA ecotourism has long-term impacts on attitudes towards sharks or resulting human behavior change.
#AES2014 MacDonald: Shark tourism said to be more valuable for fishermen than fishing, but it isn't the former fishermen who make the money.
#AES2014 MacDonald: Ecotourism has been shown to have negative impacts on birds, mammals (land and sea), etc.
#AES2014 MacDonald: Changes in #shark diet, habitat use, physiology have been detected as a result of dive ecotourism
#AES2014 MacDonald: Problems with shark ecotourism: alters habitat use, causes stress, makes sharks associate people/boats w/food
#AES2014 MacDonald: "Wildlife can fund its own conservation through tourism" has become a popular idea. True, but many limits