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Amanda Arnold 🦈
@amandasodysseys.bsky.social
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PhD student at SFU in @earth2ocean.bsky.social , working with sharks, rays & MPAs 🦈✨🗺️, @uwsmea.bsky.social and @forestry.ubc.ca‬ alum, divemaster & donut enthusiast (she/her)
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Amanda Arnold 🦈 @amandasodysseys.bsky.social · Nov 25
My research uses publicly available data to assess how well marine protected areas cover shark and ray species ranges. I focus on identifying gaps in protection & prioritizing areas to protect species most at risk of extinction.
Let’s connect on sharks, spatial conservation, and the future of MPAs!✨
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Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social · 22h
Day 1 in Museum du Naturalle Histoire du Paris

#MetabolicMorphology #SharksNearMe #DulvyLabGoesOutside #LoveMuseums #RaysNeedLoveToo #Paris #Brusselles #HamburgNaturalHistoryMuseum #NaturalHistoryMuseumDeParis
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Amanda Arnold 🦈 @amandasodysseys.bsky.social · 4d
Just wrapped up a great week measuring rays at the Museum der Natur Zoologie @leibnizlib.bsky.social in Hamburg 🇩🇪 for @rachhson.bsky.social’s PhD, over 135 specimens measured! 🦈✨ Next stop: Paris 🇫🇷, as our whirlwind tour through Europe’s ray collections continues
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A selfie of four researchers in white lab coats smiling around a large ray specimen on a metal table. Measuring tapes are draped across the specimen (species: Dasyatis pastinaca) Amanda standing among shelves filled with glass jars containing preserved shark and ray specimens. Several large sawfish rostra hang on the back wall. Rachel examining rows of preserved specimens in glass jars inside a zoological collection room. Large sawfish rostra hang vertically in the background. Nick and Olivia removing Ray specimens preserved in large vats.
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Amanda Arnold 🦈 @amandasodysseys.bsky.social · Feb 12
Always glad to celebrate my sisters in STEM! Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science 👩‍🔬🦈- Grateful for the incredible women who have supported me and for all the amazing women scientists blazing trails and making a difference every day. #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM @rachhson.bsky.social
Two women scientists, Rachel Aitchison and Amanda Arnold, examine a museum specimen of a reef manta ray as they prepare to measure it.
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Earth to Ocean Research Group @earth2ocean.bsky.social · Dec 9
Dive into the exciting work of the Earth to Ocean Research Group! Follow our brilliant students, research assistants, lab managers, postdocs, and faculty as they explore, discover, and make waves in science. 🌊✨

go.bsky.app/153jnvd
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Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social · Dec 5
New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk
👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends
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Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) IUCN Critically Endangered © Masayuki Agawa_Ocean Image Bank
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Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social · Nov 28
Was my great pleasure to spend two weeks here at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity measuring #metabolic #morpholgy traits of rays w/ @earth2ocean.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social grads. Here is
@jaymatsushiba.bsky.social to
give you a sense of the size of the collection...
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Amanda Arnold 🦈 @amandasodysseys.bsky.social · Nov 25
My research uses publicly available data to assess how well marine protected areas cover shark and ray species ranges. I focus on identifying gaps in protection & prioritizing areas to protect species most at risk of extinction.
Let’s connect on sharks, spatial conservation, and the future of MPAs!✨
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Amanda Arnold 🦈 @amandasodysseys.bsky.social · Nov 25
🌊👋 Hi Everyone! thought I would take a second to introduce myself! I'm Amanda Arnold, a PhD student with @nickdulvy.bsky.social in the @earth2ocean.bsky.social research group at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Nov 20
I've made a starter pack of scientists who study sharks and rays, and environmental advocates who work to protect them.

Follow these fine folks, and let me know if I missed anyone! 🧪🦑🌎

go.bsky.app/Q1x1gJB
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Amanda Arnold 🦈 @amandasodysseys.bsky.social · Nov 20
Me! And @jaymatsushiba.bsky.social
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Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social · Nov 1
Phew! after 2 weeks working @NRF_SAIAB its a wrap. We measured 25+ #MetabolicMorphology traits from 43 sharks & 240 ray specimens, spanning 60 species, from endemic catsharks, skates & electric rays to pelagic and deepsea sharks

Thanks to @SFUResearch & @NSERC_CRSNG 🧪🦈🌎
The SFU team outside the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity Amanda Arnold measures and oceanic whitetip shark
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Amanda Arnold 🦈 @amandasodysseys.bsky.social · Mar 23
@vanderwright.bsky.social @rachhson.bsky.social good thing we don’t go outside cause apparently we’re terrible at spotting sharks
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Earth to Ocean Research Group @earth2ocean.bsky.social · Mar 22
What a great weekend for E2O!

The Palen & Côté labs made waves at #PEEC2024 at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre.
Meanwhile, the Dulvy lab shared insights at #NEPSSVI at the Seattle Aquarium.
From local invasive species to global protected areas, we are passionate about sharing our science! 🌊🦈
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Amanda Arnold 🦈 @amandasodysseys.bsky.social · Mar 8
Happy #International_Womens_Day to these amazing scientists who provide me with *constant* support in the lab @rachhson.bsky.social @hannahvwatkins.bsky.social
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Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social · Mar 7
New analysis on #SharksintheDark funded by @SharkRayFund shows one in seven deepwater sharks and rays are threatened with extinction, more than twice the number reported a decade ago. 🦑🌍🐟

#GlobalSharkTrends
bit.ly/SharksInTheD...
Deepwater sharks captured in a targeted deepwater shark liver oil fishery off the coast of Liberia. Photo by Melissa Romao/Sea Shepherd.
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Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social · Mar 7
A global fishing prohibition below 800 m would provide 30% vertical refuge for 30% of threatened deepwater sharks and rays. 🦑🌍🐟
 
#SharksintheDark #GlobalSharkTrends #OceanOptimism
bit.ly/SharksInTheD...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A Bluntnose Sixgill Shark (Hexanchus griseus) off Puget Sound, United States. Photo by Greg Amptman
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Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social · Sep 6
Super excited to welcome new PhD student Rachel Aitchison to the Earth to Ocean Research group at Simon Fraser University. She's working on "Metabolic morphology of rays"
Rachel discovers the high point of SFU Rachel and the Passenger Pigeon at California Academy of Sciences Rachel and Amanda Arnold thrilled to find super cute SF mako shark Its just like unwrapping a birthday pressie, opening tank of preserved shark and ray specimens at California Academy of Sciences
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