Dr. Joel Fodrie, Institute for Marine Sciences, Department of Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Coastal sharks can be long-lived and highly mobile — i.e., hard to study! — as well as critical drivers and indicators of ecosystem health. Dating back to 1972, the faculty, staff and students of the UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences have conducted coastal shark surveys and targeted experimental work near Cape Lookout, NC. This research has highlighted long-term shifts in shark species composition and body sizes, important functional diversity regarding the trophic ecology of sharks — both across and within species — and the movement ecology of summertime-resident species at both estuarine and regional scales.
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