BioTrack

As part of my PhD dissertation, I co-led a collaborative effort to monitor biodiversity hotspots of marine megafauna. My research focused on highly mobile shark species: tiger, great hammerhead, scalloped hammerhead, and blue sharks. This work tracked movements throughout 2010-2019, identifying multi-species hotspots in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and the Western North Atlantic. Then, using projected environmental variables for the 2090-2100 decade, I mapped where these hotspots are likely to shift under global change scenarios.