Heithaus Lab
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We specialize in predator-prey interactions and the ecological roles and importance of sharks, marine mammals and sea turtles. Tweets from lab members
North Miami, FL
Joined January 2017
Publication Alert 🚨 New @nature paper from @globalfinprint! We are so proud to be part of the largest effort to assess the global status and conservation potential of reef sharks & rays! @VulcanInc @peclabfiu @FIUCASE @aims_gov_au @DalhousieU @ecology_lab.
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RT @NatGeoTV: #SharkFest has begun. Learn more about one of the ocean's most legendary predators in the four-week event now streaming on @D….
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Congratulations to all our co-authored lab members and the rest of the @globalfinprint collaborators on this new publication in Science!.
Very excited to share new results from @globalfinprint. An honor to work with so many wonderful people. @ScienceMagazine @SharkColin.@PGAFamilyFdn @jcu @FIU @aims_gov_au @MoteMarineLab @DalhousieU @CurtinUni @IMASUTAS @ElasmoSociety @OceaniaSharks.
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Please welcome our newest PhD, Dr. Frances Farabaugh! @nffarabaugh successfully defended her dissertation “Spatial patterns of reef shark & predatory teleost abundance and communities in the worlds largest shark sanctuary.” Congratulations and we are so proud of all your work!
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Congratulations to Dr. Laura Garcia Barcia for successfully defending her dissertation this past February! Her presentation was titled “Investigating Mercury and Selenium Interactions in Sharks and Shark Derived Products to Improve Health Risk Assessments”.
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Congratulations to PhD candidate, @liberty_boyd, for successfully defending her dissertation proposal “Factors influencing fine-scale movements and behavior of green turtles”!!
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RT @SharkRayFund: WE'RE HIRING! The #SharkConservationFund currently has 2️⃣ positions for you to join our team:. 🦈 Shark Biodiversity Init….
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RT @VallllPaz: ✨I successfully defended my dissertation this past Friday. Special thanks to my family, friends, lab mates @heithauslab , a….
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Congratulations to @VallllPaz for successfully defending her dissertation- “Investigating Trophic Interactions, Habitat Use, and Pollution Loads of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Florida Coastal Everglades” .We are so proud of you!!
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Kristine Zikmanis, PhD candidate, recently completed her goal of acoustically tagging 40 juvenile bull sharks. She hopes to learn how these sharks respond to seasonal & tidal changes in salinity & temperature to predict how bull sharks respond to an ongoing restoration project.
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Check out PhD Candidate, Kristine Zikmanis, present on her juvenile bull shark acoustic tracking research as part of the Davidson Fellowship Gulf National Estuarine Research Reserves @NOAA webinar this Thurs 6/2 @ noon EST!
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It’s #EarthDay and this year we are celebrating all of the great work our lab is doing to help research and protect our marine communities! 🦈 🐢
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RT @ANGARIocean: We were thrilled to have students from Roosevelt Middle School (@RooseveltMidd10 @pbcsd) onboard as #CoastalOceanExplorers….
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Roosevelt Middle participants boarded R/V ANGARI for the Coastal Ocean Explorers: Sharks program, made possible by IJL Real Estate and the West Marine BlueFuture® Fund at Community Foundation Santa...
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RT @ANGARIocean: We loved being part of last week's #shark handling course with @FIUCASE and @FIUEnvironment. The training participants rec….
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RT @ANGARIocean: We had a great time getting back on the water with @FIUCASE & @FIUEnvironment researchers from the @peclabfiu & @heithausl….
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Check out this study led by PhD candidate, Brendan Talwar! 🦈.
Long term trends in shark abundance offer important insights for #fisheriesmanagement. A decades old dataset of longline surveys allowed us to evaluate changes in #sharkabundance in #TheBahamas between 1979–1990 and 2011–2013. Read about our findings:.
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RT @CEIbahamas: 🚨We’re hiring!🚨x2 Research Scientist positions:.1) Coral Restoration 🌊2) Shark Conservation 🦈https:….
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Big Wave Productions joined @lauragbarcia, Kirk, and @MikeHeithaus in the Everglades to cover work on juvenile bull shark sampling as part of the @fcelter! #fiucase #sharkresearch
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Tune in to the @HersRcn seminar with Heithaus Lab alum, Dr. Bradley Strickland, Feb 22nd!.
Please join us Feb 22ndfor our webinar with Dr. Bradley Strickland @basecology presenting 'Effects of a major hurricane on a guild of estuarine predators' - 🦈🐬🐊🐟Sign up & more info Here - #HERSresearch
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