MARINE BIOLOGY, BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Recent News

Keynote speaker

International Conference on Basking Sharks

August 29-31, 2025

Galway, Ireland

New publications

McInturf, A.G., Teixeira, C.R., Boyt, R., English, M., Hussain, C., Daly, E., Lowry, D., Hillyer, L., Tribuzio, C.A., Carlisle, A. & Chapple, T.K. (2025). Assessing ontogenetic and sex variation in the foraging ecology of Salmon sharks (Lamna ditropis) in the California Current Ecosystem. Marine Biology.

Rasmuson, L. K., Blume, M.T.O., Lawrence, K.A., Laughlin, B.M., Terwilliger, M.R., Ayrea, A.C., McInturf, A.G., Edwards, C.E., Chapple, T.K., & Legare, B. (2025). Routine large-scale movements of the yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus). Frontiers in Marine Science.

McInturf, A.G., Cantor, M., Zillig, K.W., Debaere, S., Bouyoucos, I., Chapple, T.K., Mourier, J., Planes, S., Eustache, K., Sulikowski, J.A., Fangue, N.A., & Rummer, J.L. (2025). Catch data can unravel elasmobranch aggregation dynamics and group behaviours. Ecology and Evolution.

New funding

Conservation Grant for our collaborative project between the Big Fish Lab, Trinity College Dublin, Stanford University, and the Irish Basking Shark Group:
“Ireland’s first marine park: For the endangered Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)”

April 2026-2029

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Big Fish Lab

Published Work

Irish Basking Shark Group

About Me

In the interest of sharing my scientific process with the broader community, I store my computer code for data analysis on GitHub. Check out my repositories here.