Meet Our Team: Robbie Roemer
1. What’s your role in the lab? I am a Masters of Science (MS) student here at the University of Miami and am focusing on a research project for my thesis. My thesis research is primarily focusing on localized movements of urbanized shark populations, or in other words, sharks that spend long amounts of time […]
Meet Our Team: Rachel Skubel
1. What’s your role in the lab? I’m a shark research intern, which means that I am working with the team on our shark tagging expeditions, helping to carry out research projects, and working on some outreach initiatives as well. One of the experiments we are beginning now is testing the impact of shark presence on […]
Meet Our Team: Catherine Macdonald
1. What’s your role in the lab? I’m the Intern Coordinator for RJD, which means I help hire, train, supervise and mentor our amazing team of undergraduate and master’s student interns. Although our website and Facebook page show clearly how much fun we have and how hard we work when we’re in the field tagging […]
Meet Our Team: Stephen Cain
1. What’s your role in the lab? I’m an outreach coordinator and field scientist. Like many of my labmates I pull double duty, which is a great thing. When I’m speaking with the public, It’s easy for me to relate my passion for sharks, but working in the field really enhanced that for me in […]
Meet Our Team: Laura Vander Meiden
1. What’s your role in the lab? Though I occasionally have the pleasure of getting out on the water and tagging sharks with the RJD team, as the Conservation Writing Intern my primary work for RJD consists of managing and writing for the lab blog. In the blog we summarize current marine science research in […]
Meet Our Team: Melissa Soto
1. What’s your role in the lab? My name is Melissa Soto and my time at RJD has just begun. I am excited to see what the future has in store. At the moment, I assist with Twitter and write for the blog. I normally do about two tweets per day around 10:30 a.m. and […]