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Apex Predators Tracked Using Geo-Profiling

In an awesome display of power and acrobatic prowess, white sharks hunt juvenile Cape fur seals, stalking them from near the ocean floor to remain undetected, before launching a vertical attack that propels them out of the water. UM Ph.D. candidate Neil Hammerschlag and collaborators from Texas State and the University of BC used geographic profiling techniques for the first time in the marine environment to examine the hunting patterns of white sharks in South Africa. Read more…

Lisa Beal

NSF Funds Grant to Study Agulhas Current

The NSF announced that it is funding a three-year, $3.4 million study with the goal of building a multi-decadal time series of the climatically critical Agulhas Current. Led by UM’s Dr. Lisa Beal, the team will use in situ and along-track sateelite observations to study the transport, which impacts precipitation rates in Africa and may have helped to trigger the end of the last Ice Age. Read more…