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Sarah Gravel, MSc Student
Physiological basis of population growth rate in fishes


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Eric Digel, Research Assistant
M-risk project -- Assessing the Risk of Overexploitation of the Most Traded Species of Sharks and Rays

Sherman CS, Sant G, Simpfendorfer CA, Diegel ED, Zubick P, Johnson G, Usher M and Dulvy NK. (2022) M-Risk: A framework for assessing global fisheries management efficacy of sharks, rays, and chimaeras. Fish and Fisheries. PREPRINT
 

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Anthony Iliou, Undergrad project
Comparative activity levels in sharks

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Maryam Nakhostin
Master of Marine Management Student at Dalhousie University &  Student Analyst at Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Thesis project: Spatial scale and the Appropriate Conservation Strategies for Carpet Sharks (Orectolobiformes)


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Issah Seidu PhD Candidate
Small scale fisheries for elasmobranchs in Ghana

Seidu I, Brobbey LK, Danquah E, Oppong SK, van Beuningen D and Dulvy NK. (2022) “Every fish in the sea is meat and so are guitarfishes”: Socio-economic drivers of a guitarfish fishery in Ghana. Marine Policy 143, 105159.

Seidu I, Brobbey LK, Danquah E, Oppong SK, van Beuningen D, Seidu M and Dulvy NK. (2022) Fishing for survival: Importance of shark fisheries for the livelihoods of coastal communities in Western Ghana. Fisheries Research 246, 106157.



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Sam Sherman, Postdoctoral Fellow TRAFFIC, Cambridge & SFU M-risk project -- Assessing the Risk of Overexploitation of the Most Traded Species of Sharks and Rays 

Sherman CS, Sant G, Simpfendorfer CA, Diegel ED, Zubick P, Johnson G, Usher M and Dulvy NK. (2022) M-Risk: A framework for assessing global fisheries management efficacy of sharks, rays, and chimaeras. Fish and Fisheries. PREPRINT





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Wade VanderWal
MSc student
(wvanderw@sfu.ca)
Estimating the respiratory surface area of elasmobranchs with dissection and microscopy.

VanderWright W, Bigman, J.S., Elcombe, C., and Dulvy, N.K. (2020). Gill slits provide a window into the respiratory physiology of sharks. Conservation Physiology. doi:10.1093/conphys/coaa102



Alumni of the Dulvy lab
Lorenzo Alzarez-Filip (lorenzo@cmarl.unam.mx) Principal Researcher, Biodiversity and Reef Conservation (BARCO) Laboratory
Sean Anderson (Sean.Anderson'at'dfo-mpo.gc.ca) DFO Program Head in Analytical Approaches and Spatial Stock Assessment
Jennifer Bigman Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, Seattle
Jessica Cheok AIMS
Zoe Crysler
Lindsay Davidson (ldavidso'at'sfu.ca) UBC Biodiversity PDF
Danielle Derrick
Maria Jose Juan Jorda (
mjuanjorda'at'gmail.com) EU Marie Curie PDF
Lucy Harrison (
harrisonlucy'at'gmail.com ) Environmental Scientist, Project Manager and Team Lead at Stantec
Julia Lawson (jmlawson'at'ucsb.edu) PhD student at UCSB
Chris Mull (creeas'at'gmail.com) Australia Endeavour Fellow
Nathan Pacoureau
Sebastian Pardo (
sebpardo'at'gmail.com) Dalhousie PDF
Riley Pollom
Tanya Prinzing
Rowan Trebilco
(Rowan.Trebilco'at'utas.edu.au) Ecological Statistician IMAS
Rachel Walls
Serena Wong Pacific Salmon Commission

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