Beyond Jaws: Exploring Shark Science and Conservation

Welcome to the second season of the Beyond Jaws podcast. In this episode, Dr. David Ebert and Andrew Lewin will be speaking with the organizers, the funding organization, and an international expert from the IUCN on the Global Wedgefish and Guitarfish Symposium.

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Season 2 kicks off in one day where Dr. David Ebert and Andrew Lewin speak to researchers all over the world who are working to learn more about wedgefish and guitarfish to better protect them.

This season was supported by the Save Our Seas Foundation and covers many of the presenters in the World Wedgefish and Guitarfish Symposium.

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Dr. Ana Martins joins Dr. David Ebert and Andrew Lewin to discuss her career studying elasmobranchs in Brazil, Australia (with Dr. Michelle Heupel); and now, Canada.

Michelle discusses how she left Brazil to work with Michelle in Australia even though she did not know how to speak English at the time. She talks about how she overcame that challenge and others.

We also discuss her new research in studying the supply chains of shark meat from around the world.

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Dr. Jeff Kneebone joins Dr. David Ebert and Andrew Lewin on the podcast to discuss his journey into shark science working with Dr. Greg Skomal. His story is quite interesting as he worked with two of our guests in Season 1.

Jeff was introduced to Greg through Dr. Lisa Natanson. They all got along quite to the point where they continue to work together to this day.

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Dr. Vincente Faria joins Dr. David Ebert and Andrew Lewin on the podcast to discuss his graduate work on sawfish with Dr. Gavin Naylor. Dr. Faria talks about how he met Dr. Naylor and why he decided to choose sawfish as his focus animal when he wanted to do genetics.

Dr. Faria discovered a number of new sawfish species during his graduate career.

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Dr. Josh Moyer recently graduated with a Ph.D. studying feeding morphology in sharks, but his career path was ignited and highly influenced by writing a letter to Dr. Eugenie Clark, a famous shark biologist by which people (young and old) were inspired to pursue shark science as a career path.

Josh went to an undergraduate college nearby as Dr. Clark suggested and it is where he met Dr. Dominique Didier. Dominique was studying ghost sharks at the time, which piqued Josh's interest.

Josh ended up conducting his undergraduate thesis with Dominique and went on to do a Master's and a Ph.D. in shark science.

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Brian Gervalis joins Andrew Lewin on this bonus episode to discuss his time as a graduate student under the supervision of Dr. Lisa Natanson. Brian is a Fisheries Scientist for an environmental consulting firm where he predominantly works on projects related to the emerging offshore wind industry.

Brian discusses how he got into environmental consulting and how working with Lisa helped drive his career forward.

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Dr. Kelsey James sits down with me to discuss her experience in doing her Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Lisa Natanson.

Kelsey describes the intensity at which Lisa approached her work and how she uses that intensity as a Fisheries Biologist for NOAA in La Jolla, California.

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Dr. Gavin Naylor joins Dr. David Ebert and Andrew Lewin on the podcast to discuss his career in shark science.

Gavin takes us through his childhood from growing up exploring Africa to becoming a shark scientist.

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Sarah Fowler joins Dr. David Ebert and Andrew Lewin on the podcast to discuss how she got her start in Shark Science and how she was co-chair IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group even though she wasn't a shark scientist at the time.

Sarah used her experience as a marine scientist to bring together researchers and practitioners from all over the world to provide the group with information on sharks in their region.

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