Last week I joined a research team studying juvenile great white sharks just offshore of Long Island, New York, an area that has been identified as a great white ‘nursery.’ Some of the technology being deployed via tags on sharks for this study will return unprecedented information on the species. Here's a series of images from the program and of this particular shark’s capture and release,
https://news.mongabay.com/wildtech/2018/07/new-tagging-tech-for-great-white-shark-tracking-in-new-york-waters/ Click thru to the full report to hear what biophysical studies the team is also measuring, from the animals' stress and nutrition levels, to DNA, hormone profiles, toxicology, etc. Erik -- www.erikhoffner.com
