The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy is a Cape Cod, Massachusetts based non-profit organization with the mission to support scientific research, improve public safety, and educate the community to inspire white shark conservation. Marianne Long is the Education Director at AWSC. She works with the Education team to create and deliver education programs that engage the public

Hello Women in Ocean Science! My name is Brooke Anderson and I am a marine biologist that studies sharks and other fish.

Elasmo Week is a virtual event about sharks, skates and rays - a group of fish collectively called Elasmobranchs. Real scientists will be talking about the various and mind-blowing ways they study elasmobranchs while celebrating as many species as they can! It is a free week-long event, and if you miss out on any of the live talks, they will be available on the MISS YouTube channel for future binge-watching.

Catherine Cushenan, also know as Cat Sharks, has spent the past six years travelling the tropics, studying shark behaviour - with a little bit of tourism action and videography on the side. She is a shark ecologist, drone pilot and freediver from the U.K. whom has dedicated her life to saving the ocean and its inhabitants. Read below to find out about her enviable relationship with sharks.

Northern Ireland is a small part, of a small island, off the west coast of the United Kingdom. If you’ve heard of my home country then you’re likely to know us for the Giants Causeway (a bunch of basalt columns), the Titanic (the most famous ship that sank), or The Troubles (our troubling history). But there is a valuable part of our heritage that has been lost in cultural memory – our sharks, skates and rays (elasmobranchs).

When I was little I would always tell people that I wanted to be a veterinarian. I even went to college on a pre-vet track. However, the ocean had always been a wonderful and mysterious place to me. I spent countless days fishing with my dad and several summers visiting family in Myrtle Beach, SC, but I had no idea that you could study the ocean and its inhabitants as a job.

In June of 2020 we, the soon-to-be co-founders of MISS, connected/reconnected on Twitter through #BlackInNature, a hashtag that went viral after @BlackAFInSTEM launched Black Birders Week. As the hashtag grew we slowly increased our ranks. Suddenly, four women who had felt completely isolated now had a community of scientists that looked like them.

Skates, together with sharks and rays, are the only extant vertebrates that possess a cartilaginous skeleton. Although it hasn’t been explicitly tested in other species of skates (and there are about 150 species described!), we have a good understanding that they all share the same genetic machinery necessary for formation of cartilaginous skeleton.

Aloha fellow bad ass Girls in Ocean Science! My name is Kayleigh Grant and I am a shark naturalist, shark safety diver, and shark conservationist with One Ocean Diving in Haleiwa, Hawaii. I am blessed to work in the water with sharks every day

Shark diver. Stunt woman. Environmentalist. Today on Shark Week Presents, we chat to Liz Parkinson (if you’re not already following her shark filled instagram then go. do. it. now.) Keep reading to find out how her love affair with sharks began and what it’s like to be an advocate for some of the ocean’s top predators…

Today on Shark Week Presents, we catch up with shark scientist and PhD student Katy Ayres. Continue reading for Katy’s journey into marine biology and to discover how drones can be used in marine research.

Today on Shark Week Presents we’ve got another badass woman in shark science for you! Introducing Melissa Marquez, shark biologist, PhD student and podcaster. Keep reading to find out why sharks are a misunderstood predator and what it’s like to be bitten by a crocodile…

Many cosmetics manufacturers guarantee that their products are cruelty-free. However, there still is an ugly truth behind many beauty and skincare products. People may not know that numerous cosmetics contain animal-derived ingredients, one being Squalene.

It’s finally Shark Week! This week social media and TV will be saturated with images and videos that portray sharks in a very specific way; as a fearsome creature of the sea.

Hannah Rudd is an ambitious marine biologist, and can’t wait to share her story with you!

This week we chat with the wonderful Kirsty Magson who spends her days swimming with whale sharks, helping rescue turtles, restoring coral and educating people about the ocean.