In this episode I speak with Sarah Hoffman, a fisheries scientist with BioMark (https://www.biomark.com) in Boise, Idaho. We discuss her doctoral research on sharks off the Florida coast, and her current work at Biomark finding new research and conservation applications for drones and databases. Our creature feature continues the shark theme and follows up from where we left off last time in my episode with Susie Zagorski. Listen and learn why sharks are more warm-hearted than you might think! If you would like to hear more about Sarah Hoffmann’s work, check out her appearance on the Reality Capture Network podcast last year: https://tinyurl.com/fammd8e4

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Is your pet’s microchip registered? Without registration the tag is just a serial number, with none of you or your pet’s information should they get lost. Thankfully, there’s more free registries out there than ever before, such as Michaelson Found Animals (https://microchipregistry.foundanimals.org/), which I use for my pets, and the free pet microchip registry (https://www.freepetchipregistry.com/). So, if you’re unsure whether your pet is registered, or if the information might be out of date, check your pet’s registration status today! 

Resources (*indicates paywall)Sea Turtle Database: https://seaturtledb.com/about RoboTuna: https://news.mit.edu/1994/robotuna-0921 Farmer, C.G. 2000. Parental Care: The Key to Understanding Endothermy and Other Convergent Features in Birds and Mammals. The American Naturalist 155(3): 326-334. https://tinyurl.com/3d325unz See, K.E., M.W. Ackerman, R. Carmichael, S.L. Hoffman, and C. Beasley. 2021. Empirically Estimating Carrying Capacity for Juvenile Chinook Salmon. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 102(2). 6 pgs. https://tinyurl.com/3uzyueab

*Block, B.A. 2011. Endothermy in Tunas, Billfishes, and Sharks. In: Farrell A.P.(editor),Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment(3): 1914–1920. San Diego: Academic Press.

*Hoffmann, S.L., T. Buser, and M.E. Porter. 2020. Comparative morphology of shark pectoral fins. Journal of Morphology*Moyle, P.B. and J.J. Cech. 2004. Buoyancy and Thermal regulation. In: Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology. University Press.

*Vogel and Wainwright. 1969. A Functional Bestiary. Laboratory studies about living systems. 112 pgs. Addison Wesley Publishing.

CreditsThank you to Sarah Hoffmann for the great cover photo of herself for this episode. Theme mixed by me, using sounds sourced from sfxgo, orangefreesound, and freesound. Please see website for full credits. Thank you.