Graduate Student Felipe Carvalho Receives "Alec Courtelis Award"
Graduate Student Andrew Piercy Wins "Carrier Award" for best student poster at AES
Graduate Student Felipe Carvalho Wins "Best Student Poster Award"
National Shark Research Consortium Five Year Technical Report: 2002-2007
The Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) is located on the campus of the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville.
It was chartered in 1917 as the State's official natural history museum and is fully accredited by the American
Association of Museums. The Florida Program for Shark Research (FPSR), directed by George H. Burgess, currently
includes the International Shark Attack File (ISAF), FPSR research and education initiatives, and a major website focusing on shark
research, fishery management and conservation. The ISAF, a compendium of scientific investigations of all known shark attacks
on humans, is maintained at the FLMNH and is operated in cooperation with the American Elasmobranch Society (AES),
the international scientific organization of researchers studying sharks and their relatives. The FLMNH website is the
largest and most frequently accessed elasmobranch site on the World Wide Web and provides educational material about
sharks and their kin, as well as serving as the host site for the NSRC and the ISAF. The primary objectives
and public service of projects conducted by FLMNH through the Florida Program for Shark Research include:
- Conduct studies on the relative abundance and distribution of sharks.
- Produce basic and applied studies on the biology, ecology and behavior of coastal and pelagic elasmobranchs.
- Actively engage in promoting the goals of international elasmobranch conservation.
- Conduct studies on the systematics, zoogeography and evolutionary relationships of sharks.
- Investigate, compile and synthesize information on shark attack.
- Provide educational and technical training of students and raise public awareness about elasmobranchs through dispensation of advisory information and educational materials.
