News

Just out (7th March) the latest paper by Global Shark Trends Project by Brit Finucci #SharksInTheDark Fishing for oil and meat drives irreversible defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays on the cover of Science

Just out (8th Feb) Joe Turners new paper on marine STAR - Species Threat Abatement (and Restoration) just out: Targeting ocean conservation outcomes though threat reduction in Nature Ocean Sustainability

Just out today (11th Jan 2024) Sarah Gravel's new paper on the Metabolism, population growth and the fast-slow continuum of marine fishes. in Fish and Fisheries. DOI: 10.1111/faf.12811

Holly's paper has been *accepted* Size-dependence of food intake and mortality interact with temperature and seasonality to drive diversity in fish life histories. bioRxiv, 2022.2008.2020.504655. (Accepted at Evolutionary Applications)

Anthony Iliou's paper is out:
Tail shape and the swimming speed of sharks

From Northern Ireland to Fiji: Nick Dulvy on Speakupforblue/BeyondJaws podcast
https://www.speakupforblue.com/show/beyond-jaws/show-17/

Nick Dulvy awarded the 2023 Le Cren Medal of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles

Issah Seidu's new historical ecology analysis of shark & ray declines out in Human Ecology
26th Nov 2022

Maryam Nakhostin wins best talk prize at won the award for oral presentations in the Sustainable Oceans Conference

Fior the FIFTH year running, Dulvy named 2022 Highly Cited Researcher in the “Cross-Field’ category, reflecting his ranking in the top 1% by citations for field and year across biological, environmental, and social sciences during the last decade.

New #GlobalSharkStatus paper launched today 6th September following 4th September IUCN Red List update.

Watch the launch of EDGE Sharks Tuesday 4th Dec 1700 GMT

Our first labwork paper out on Gill Surface Area and Ecological Lifestyles of sharks

Sean Anderson 'Black Swans' out in PNAS

Sean Anderson (& Emily Darling) win 2017 Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution Early Career Award

Sunday, Bates paper on Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals is top-10 most highly cited climate change paper of 2012 according to new citation analysis

Rowan Trebilco wins Quirks & Quarks award for best PhD thesis

Sean Anderson wins Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medal for his PhD thesis on "Variance and extreme events in population ecology"

Lindsay Davidson wins NSERC CGS grant

Welcome to the newly minted Dr Katie Newton, who passed her PhD viva voce, examined by Dr Heather Koldeway (ZSL), yesterday 24th November2014

Dr Rowan Trebilco starts an Ecological Statistician position with Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart Tasmania in November 2014

Chris Mull wins 2014 Gruber award for best student talk at American Elasmobranch Society annual meeting

Rowan successfully defends thesis - yeah!

Rowan Trebilco hands in PhD thesis -- my first SFU student is coming to partuition

Rowan Trebilco selected to be one of the participants in the Young Scientist Mentoring Program for the Gordon Research Conference on Unifying Ecology Across Scales
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2014&program=unifying.

Jenn Sunday wins prestigious Grand Prix Early Career Award of CSEE.

Chris Mull wins Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Passions of Paradise Student Research Grant for 2013

Just had a very big paper accepted in a new journal..... eLIFE

OMG we just received galley proofs of the sawfish report.... Now to find a printer. 23rd Nov 2013

Had some long skype calls with Austin Gallagher and Neil Hammerslag about the recent drivers of sharks conservation, following their NatGeo blog post

What I am reading

Pressey RL, Cabeza M, Watts ME, Cowling RM, Wilson KA. 2007. Conservation planning in a changing world. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 22: 583-592. link

McHugh M, Sims DW, Partridge JC, Genner MJ. 2011. A century later: Long-term change of an inshore temperate marine fish assemblage. Journal of Sea Research 65: 187-194.

Wilson, G., Aruliah, D. A., Brown, C. T., Chue Hong, N. P., Davis, M., Guy, R. T., et al. (2014). Best Practices for Scientific Computing. PLoS Biology, 12(1), e1001745. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745

Donaldson, M.R. and Cooke, S.J. (2013) Scientific Publications: Moving Beyond Quality and Quantity toward Influence. Bioscience  Paywall link

Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals The Guardian, 9th December 2013

PLOS profits prompt revamp

JAWS Returns: Signs of recovery in well-managed shark populations

Damuth, J. 1981. Population density and body size in mammals. Nature 290:699-700.

Munch, S. B., and S. Salinas. 2009. Latitudinal variation in lifespan within species is explained by the metabolic theory of ecology. Proceedings Of the National Academy Of Sciences Of the United States Of America 106:13860-13864.