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--Apple-Mail-46--984195383 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, The talk below, at Dalhousie tomorrow, looks pretty cool. Cheers, Andy Horn Halifax Tracking Great White Sharks=20 =20 Speaker John Chisholm, Research Biologist, Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Shark Research Program =20 When 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Thursday, 12 September 2013 =20 Where Potter Auditorium, Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building 6100 University Ave Halifax, B3H 4R2 =20 Abstract Although white sharks have always been part of the marine fauna of the = Northwest Atlantic, their elusiveness has made them nearly impossible to = study. Most of what we know about their biology has come from the study = of dead specimens and through sightings reports. Now, with predictable = access to white sharks attracted by grey seal colonies, there is an = opportunity to study their overall ecology and life history in the = Atlantic. To accomplish this, MSRP scientists have been tagging and = tracking white sharks with satellite based and acoustic telemetry tags. = Tagging data are helping to discern fine- and broad-scale movements as = well as identify, characterize, and quantify essential habitat. =20 =20= --Apple-Mail-46--984195383 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi = all,<div><br></div><div>The talk below, at Dalhousie tomorrow, looks = pretty cool.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Andy = Horn</div><div>Halifax</div><div><br></div><div><b>Tracking Great White = Sharks </b><br> <br>Speaker<br>John Chisholm, Research = Biologist,<br>Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Shark Research = Program<br> <br>When<br>4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.<br>Thursday, 12 = September 2013<br> <br>Where<br>Potter Auditorium, Kenneth C. Rowe = Management Building<br>6100 University Ave<br>Halifax, B3H = 4R2<br> <br>Abstract<br>Although white sharks have always been part = of the marine fauna of the Northwest Atlantic, their elusiveness = has made them nearly impossible to study. Most of what we know about = their biology has come from the study of dead specimens and through = sightings reports. Now, with predictable access to white sharks = attracted by grey seal colonies, there is an opportunity to study their = overall ecology and life history in the Atlantic. To accomplish = this, MSRP scientists have been tagging and tracking = white sharks with satellite based and acoustic telemetry tags. = Tagging data are helping to discern fine- and broad-scale movements = as well as identify, characterize, and quantify essential habitat. = <br> </div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-46--984195383--
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