Friend, Artist, Naturalist, Volunteer: Richard Dolan
3rd November 2015 | by Georgia FrenchConducting a PhD usually entails meeting a lot of people, be it at conferences, within your institution, at a field site or through collaboration.
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Shark Documentary Review: Of Shark and Man
22nd October 2015 | by Georgia FrenchI am very pleased to be able post a review of upcoming shark documentary Of Shark and Man; a documentary based around bull sharks in Fiji!
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A Year of White Shark PhD Research
11th September 2015 | by Georgia FrenchI am now approaching the 1 year mark for my PhD on white sharks…where has it gone?! I’ve been reflecting on the things that I have done in the last year, to help me get a better understanding of how my time has been apportioned, the achievements that I have made, and how best to plan next year’s work.
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A Typical Day of Fieldwork
15th July 2015 | by Georgia FrenchI’m now approaching the fifth and final week of this, my third field trip to collect data on white sharks for my PhD. In this blog, I’ll take you through my typical working day and how it feels for me to be at this particular stage of a field trip.
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Taking Tiny Pieces of the Great White Shark
5th July 2015 | by Georgia FrenchStable isotope analysis - how you can tell what a shark has been up to from a little piece of its muscle
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Sharks and Lasers!
25th June 2015 | by Georgia FrenchThat’s right, lasers! (though not in an Austin Powers kind of way). In this blog I’ll be describing how lasers can be used to get accurate measurements of free-swimming white sharks.
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The Ups and Downs of Field Work on the World’s Most Awesome Fish
11th June 2015 | by Georgia FrenchI live in the UK and conduct my field work in South Africa – it’s quite the commute! Since starting my PhD at the beginning of October 2014, I have been on two field trips, totalling three months and I have another trip commencing next week, this time for five weeks.
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How I Individually Identify White Sharks
2nd June 2015 | by Georgia FrenchOne question I get asked a lot when talking about working with white sharks is; “How can you tell them apart?!”
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My Journey to a shark PhD
29th May 2015 | by Georgia FrenchAs with many things in life, when it comes to my PhD, I often wistfully think that I wish I knew what I do now, back when I was I an undergraduate and then Masters student. I was desperate for a PhD.
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