Exploring Science Beyond Data
Research
My research currently focuses on understanding how environmental disruptions like harmful algal blooms, changing ocean temperatures, habitat loss, overfishing and bycatch (accidental catch) are affecting shark and ray populations. My research goal is to understand how people and sharks can more sustainably co-exist.
Science Communication
I’m currently producing a musical called The Shark Lady by Christina Chen and working on an immersive theatre project centered around shark extinction. In addition, I’ve been doing book signings and speaking engagements all around the country following the publication of my first book, “Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist.” I’m also collaborating with a colleague named Paul Greenberg on a lecture series discussing sustainable fishing on college campuses.
In search of opportunities to:
Collaborate on documentary projects that center science and shark conservation
Engage with audiences around the world through interactive, approachable and captivating speaking engagements
Create and perform immersive theatre projects that engage audiences in shark conservation in new and exciting ways
Write short-form and long-form content about sharks and ocean conservation
A little about me
I’m just a girl who loves the sea
My love for the ocean began when I was a little girl fishing with my dad in Myrtle Beach, SC. My family has long had deep cultural roots to the ocean and as a military brat growing up, I was able to find a sense of “home” near the ocean during a time in my life when the definition of home was a bit fuzzy. I fell in love with sharks through what I like to call a scientific meet-cute where I ran into a professor, literally, carrying a bunch of papers with his research on sharks. As I helped him gather his materials I couldn’t help but skim through the papers. I was awed by what I saw and that scientific curiosity towards this incredible group of animals has been a driving force in my work since then. Now I try to help inspire that same scientific curiosity in others.
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