Why do Fishers Fish?
By Emily Rose Nelson, SRC Graduate Student Humans have been fishing for over 40,000 years. Initially, the world’s waters were thought of as a resource with no bounds. However, intensification of fishing pressure over the last 100 years has decimated fish populations, forcing us to realize that the oceans’ resources indeed do have limits. Today, […]
Shark Tagging with Palmer Trinity Middle School
By Grace Roskar, SRC intern The morning of Friday, April 29th was already proving that it would be a warm day as we set off for a day of shark tagging. Our guests, students from Palmer Trinity Middle School and Kelly and David, two citizen scientists from RSMAS, met the SRC team at Crandon Marina […]
Shark tagging with St. Thomas Aquinas
By Grace Roskar, SRC Intern The morning of April 23rd, 2016 felt like a summer day with its warmth and sunshine. St. Thomas Aquinas High School from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Dalton Hesley of UM’s Rescue a Reef Program joined the SRC team for a day of shark tagging. The group of young marine biology […]
Harnessing the Power of the Web as a Tool for Conservation, Not Sensation
By Kevin Reagan, SRC Intern Meet the pygmy slow loris, one of the world’s most threatened primates and star of one of the most popular animal videos uploaded to YouTube. The video featured Sonya, a female pygmy slow loris, being tickled in a bedroom in Russia. It accumulated 9,338,000 views between April 2009 and January […]
Catalysts Behind the First Shark and Ray Sanctuaries in the Philippines
Jeff Palumbo, SRC Intern The Philippines – one of the few places in the world where pelagic thresher shark (Alopias pelagicus) sightings are a common occurrence, happening daily. These rare sharks ritualistically travel to seamounts in order to be cleaned of parasites, all just within reach of scuba divers. Malapascua, a spit of land less […]
Shark Tagging with the Children’s Wish Foundation
By Tim Hogan, SRC Intern On the morning of Friday, April 8th, a crew of 10 SRC interns and their captain gathered together to prepare for a day of serendipity and many sharks. Our guests, associated with the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada, came along to meet our team leader, David Shiffman, and get some […]