Hired by Discovery Studios for Shark Week’s Alien Sharks: Return the Abyss. Contract involved returning to the Southern Indian Ocean to collect more data from bycatch accidentally caught by a licensed fishery in 2014.
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Chondrichthyan Tree of Life Project, Gavin Naylor
Selected by Pacific Shark Research Center and Gavin Naylor for the Chondrichthyan Tree of Life Project to collect data from rare and deep-sea species in the Southern Indian Ocean in 2012. All specimens were bycatch accidentally caught by a licensed fishery. At least eight new species of deep-sea sharks were discovered during this trip.
Moss Landing Marine Labs, San Jose State University
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Moss Landing, California San Jose State University of San Jose, California Masters in Marine Science Pending completion 2015
Paul J. Clerkin 