I wrote my first review! My thoughts on Meg 2, spoilers included scienceandfilm.org/articles/3569/…

Yesterday, ​ANGARI crew & FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education scientists welcomed inquisitive Palm Springs Middle #STEMrays aboard #rvANGARI for a #CoastalOceanExplorers: Sharks expedition exploring #marinescience research & careers. Thank you @Society4science STEM Action Grant program for making this possible!

Shark in the Dark 🦈Researchers carefully collect data from this nurse shark, a protected species in #Belize, to help monitor population health. The shark was promptly released after the workup. For more, watch "Sharks in Belize: Jaguars of the Sea” youtu.be/10Bh3F6PxzA

We had the pleasure of welcoming Independence Middle School SciQuest Academy The School District of Palm Beach County onboard #rvANGARI for our first #CoastalOceanExplorers: Sharks expedition of the 23-24 school year with FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education! More 👉 hubs.ly/Q0243jSk0 #TY #SciQuestAcademy sponsors for supporting this expedition.

Well done Sarah Luongo, PhD on defending an excellent PhD on the energetics of coral reef and pelagic fishes!

Please join us in celebrating Sarah Luongo, PhD, who successfully defended her dissertation yesterday! Dr. Luongo assessed the energetics, behavioral strategies, & space use of dolphinfish and Nassau grouper. Congratulations Dr. Luongo, we are so excited for you!

Still on cloud 9! #PhDone 🥳

New paper! Dynamic energy landscapes of predator may modulate risk in prey. We provide a framework to link the two through foraging theory. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Meet Yannis Papastamatiou! 👋 Yannis (@dr_yannis) is a behavioral #ecologist & associate prof at FIU in the Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab. His lab studies behavioral & physiological ecology of #sharks, rays & fish, 👀 at their roles in their #environment. Read more ➡️ hubs.ly/Q029Z0bG0

New paper lead by recent Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab graduate Sarah Luongo, PhD. We use energetics and telemetry to estimate consumption rates of Nassau grouper. The proportion of prey consumed varies by habitat on coral reefs and may increase 24% with future climate scenarios. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

However, this change may be reduced in habitats with high prey productivity. Ecological Society

New paper lead by Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab graduate Sarah Luongo, PhD, and coauthored by Shedd research staff, used energetics and acoustic telemetry to predict increased consumption rates of Nassau grouper under future climate scenarios esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Great to see the Biology and FIU Marine Biology grad students present their work at Biosymposium on Saturday. And congratulations to the lab’s own Sara Schoen for winning first place in the 15 min presentation category! FIU Institute of Environment FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education FIU GradSchool Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab

Visualise & quantify space use of lots of animals: github.com/SimonDedman/mo… on CRAN; automates dBBMM modelling & plotting. Thx to coauthor Maurits van Zinnicq Bergmann, PhD 🥳

Congrats to Candace Fields (Candace Fields) for passing her proposal defense!! Her work assesses the impact of The Bahamas shark sanctuary on economically and ecologically important species including the critically endangered oceanic whitetip shark. Congratulations Candace!

Please join us in celebrating Erin Spencer, PhD, who successfully defended her dissertation yesterday! Her research looked at the energetics, behavior, and thermal tolerance of great hammerhead sharks. Congratulations Dr. Spencer!

This #ScienceSaturday is all about blacktip #sharks cruising the #FL coast for their annual #migration. Want to learn more? View a recording of the panel event we hosted with The Palm Beach Post and #scientists from Shark Migration @floridaatlantic & Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab FIU! hubs.ly/Q02rdT2R0

This was truly an unexpected discovery by PhD Candidate Devanshi Kasana while taging tiger sharks! FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab

No one was harmed in the process of this shark handling workshop! Trauma training is an important part of our safety measures for shark handling. Here students are handling a fake (but very realistic looking) emergency scenario.

New paper lead by Maurits van Zinnicq Bergmann, PhD we used individual based modelling and telemetry to understand the roles of predation risk and competition in driving space use by a shark and ray community.