Faculty and several recent master's degree graduates from California State University, Long Beach’s (CSULB) nationally recognized Shark Lab will be among presenters at the International White Shark Symposium, Feb. 7-10 at the New Otani Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii.
On Monday, Feb. 8, the California session will include "Historic fishery interaction with the white sharks in the Southern California Bight," presented by Christopher G. Lowe, CSULB professor and Shark Lab director, co-authored with adjunct faculty member Gwen D. Goodmanlowe; graduates Mary E. Blasius of Irvine; Erica T. Jarvis and Tom J. Mason of Long Beach; and John B. O’Sullivan, curator of field operations at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Blasius will speak on "Evaluation of organochlorine contaminants in young-of-year and juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) from the Southern California Bight," co-authored with Lowe and O'Sullivan. Graduate Christopher Mull, now a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, will present "Trace elements and heavy metals in the tissues of juvenile white sharks from the Southern California Bight," co-authored with Lowe and O’Sullivan.
Lowe also co-authored several presentations during the Husbandry session on Tuesday, Feb. 9, including "The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Juvenile White Shark Project: How weaving together partners from the scientific and fishing communities with research, conservation and education messaging created a wildly successful program," "Routine metabolic rate of young-of-the-year white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) transported to the Monterey Bay Aquarium," and "Captive feeding and growth of young-of-the-year white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at the Monterey Bay Aquarium."
To learn more about the CSULB Shark Lab, visit www.csulb.edu/web/labs/sharklab and for more information on the symposium, visit www.whitesharkscience.com.
--Anne Ambrose
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