Save Our Seas Keystone Grant

Apr 11, 2023

 
Save Our Seas Keystone GrantI can finally share the news! On the strength of the team and plans we’ve built here, this project has been funded by the Save Our Seas Foundation to complete analysis of all the samples We’ve collected! Check out the announcement of the 2023 funded projects here. 
The Keystone Grant funds one year of work, with the potential for another two years based on the progress we’re making and funding availability. The first year will fund sample preparation and laser-ablation microchemistry, as well as some experimental micro CT analysis of internal structures. I already have two summer students ready to help with the work this summer. Exciting!!      

Also, congratulations to Patricia Charvet, one of our collaborators here, on successful funding for another project that will be going out looking for sawfish on the Amazon Coast.   

Look forward to future updates!

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Could teeth and scale chemistry reveal threatened Amazonian mega-fish movements?

Ecologists Without Borders

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Sawfish are one of the most endangered fish in the world, and Atlantic tarpon are considered vulnerable. Both fish move into salty and fresh water, but we don't understand these movements. Knowing more could help identify ways to protect both species. Luckily, tarpon scales and sawfish rostral teeth store chemistry that can reconstruct the movements they make. We hypothesize that teeth and scales will allow is to reconstruct the movements of both fish in a non-lethal way.