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Chelsea Black, PhD

Shark scientist and conservationist

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I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City, NC within the Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences department.

I am working on multiple research projects, including understanding the phenology of Atlantic shark species in North Carolina, the microbial communities associated with sharks, implementing new protocols for DNA analysis in species identification, and telemetry studies to identify migration corridors.

Outside of academia, I partner with a non profit called Project Hiu in Indonesia leading a shark tagging program that kicked off in 2022. In one of the most heavily shark fished areas of the world, we are satellite tracking tiger sharks to learn more about their movements in this area. The results will be used to inform new management practices that could prevent the regional extinction of these overfished sharks. If you want to learn more about this work, check out the video below!