Dr. Catherine Macdonald
@dr_catmac
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Marine scientist and teacher @Field_School & @MiamiRosenstiel. Director @sharktagging. @NatGeo Explorer. Shark & ray ecology, biology, conservation. She/her.
Miami, FL
Joined November 2019
Intellectual communities are better and do better when they are welcoming and supportive. That feels like it should be obvious. But even if diversity and inclusion didn’t make us better scientists (it does) it would make us better humans, and that should be reason enough.
“A rich body of research shows that diversity and inclusion leads to better, more creative science.”
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I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into small mammals and population ecology then check this out. Please share/repost widely!
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New paper! We use telemetry to identify behaviors of goliath grouper while they form seasonal spawning aggregations. We show how these behaviors change with the lunar cycle, temperatures and current strengths. https://t.co/d7eiAxGjFF
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🎉30th Anniversary!🎉Our 2025 Sea Secrets Lecture Series starts January 14, with @dr_catmac, director of @sharktagging discussing the biology, ecology and conservation of sharks and rays in So. Florida. Join us in person or online. 🦈 https://t.co/l4ibsjkXdn
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Join us in person or online for Sea Secrets 2025.
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#PhD offer! Love African wild dogs, fancy biologging & move ecol, field work in Africa, solving key conservation problems? Do a PhD on our fully funded NERC CROCUS DLA with @RosieWoodroffe, our ZSL-Kenya CASE partners & me. Open also to intl candidates! https://t.co/Cm6bVlAE7L
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📢Interested in a funded interdisciplinary #PhD researching how antibiotics in the marine environment can affect marine mammals and the ecosystem? Hear more about the aims of PhD project CDTS315 with @Ellie__Jameson @BangorUni and co-supervisors via this video link 👇
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The pink meanie jellyfish was only described in the year 2000 (they even got their own new family!) and we’re totally here for it. The pink meanie hunts the moon jellyfish and helps keep their blooms in check! #coralcitycamera
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🐟PhD Opportunity! Drs. Brett van Poorten and Fiona Johnston #SimonFraserUniversity Field work and analysis of whole-lake experiments examining how and why catch rates do not decline in step with fish abundance. Fully funded! Interested? Learn more at https://t.co/omycehhEFV
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New PhD position in our group @EawagResearch, focusing on migration ecology of Arctic charr in pristine Greenland rivers, lakes and fjords 🇬🇱 across a climate gradient. Please spread to potential candidates. Deadline for applications November 3rd. https://t.co/MruJ8qTsUB
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Today’s the day! Election Day is finally here. Know your rights when voting.
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I’m hiring for a super cool and super important role @calacademy I’m looking for a leader to work with our team to expand biodiversity community science in California!
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Never underestimate the power of freshwater mussels. 💪🏼
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PhD in hermit crabs, personality and human impacts on behaviour, part of the AIRES DTC. Based in Plymouth with me and with @SvenjaTidau in Bangor. Please share and if interested feel free to get in touch for more info! https://t.co/SV7FqKAfoE
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🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 Ever since the OG, Darwin, evolutionary biologists have been puzzled by the potential benefits females get by choosing "attractive" males. Well, good news Chuck, my grad school buddy Doug Barron and I figured it out today in @ASNAmNat! 😜 🧵 1/8
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Incredible PhD opportunity for those interested in seabird & marine mammal movement, modelling & ecosystem processes!
Funded PhD opportunity in our lab @OPELresearch @OceanEarthUoS @unisouthampton "Biogeography of the southern Indian Ocean higher predator community" https://t.co/zoOa54B4YR Closes 8 January 2025
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New polar bear paper. Largely confirmation of what we thought. Evolution & species divergence is less like a tree & more like a vine: lots of intertwining over time until new species can't produce viable offspring. Polar bears & brown bears haven't been separated long enough yet.
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A female lemon shark (with a big rusty fish hook in her mouth) follows closely behind a male, blue runner jacks in tow #lemonshark #sharksofcoralcity #maleshark #claspers #fishhook #bluerunner #jacks #entourage #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
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CamDam fears nothing, antagonizes anything, bites the tail of the barracuda! #damselfish #barracuda #camdam #nofear #bitesthetail #scram #shoo #getoutofhere #getoffmylawn #fearless #braincoral #suncoral #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
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As a listener request, this episode of the WoS Podcast we are Joined by @BiminiSharkGirl, founder of @Sharks4Kids, who has dedicated her career to studying lemon sharks. From shark belly buttons to yoga poses, & everything in between, listen below. https://t.co/PInT7Tbcef
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✨ Job Alert! ✨ FWC is hiring an Assistant Research Scientist for their Marathon, FL location! Duties include: ✅ SCUBA diving ✅ Boating ✅ Fisheries data ✅ Technical reports and publications ✅ Fiiiiish Closing Date: October 24, 2024 Link to job announcement below 👇
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