Center for Shark Research

Elasmobranch Fisheries and Conservation Biology

• Program Manager: Dr. Colin Simpfendorfer
• Staff Biologist: Ms. Tonya Wiley
• Graduate students: Rory McAuley (Edith Cowan University, Australia), Vicente Faria (Iowa State University).

The Elasmobranch Fisheries and Conservation Biology Program conducts research on the population biology of sharks and rays. This includes fisheries life history studies, fishery assessments, population modeling, conservation biology and much more. 

Current research projects include;

• Conservation biology of smalltooth sawfish, including population assessment and identification of critical habitats,
• Pop-up satellite tagging of commercially important shark species,
• Ecosystem modeling of a shark nursery area
• Population assessment of commercial shark species

Additional resources

Colin’s personal web site:

http://www.mote.org/~colins/ColinsWebPage.htm

Staff curriculum vitae

Colin Simpfendorfer, Ph.D (short version)_

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