Field Studies

    Title Start Year End Year Oceanic Region Type of tag Species Contact
    Movements, recapture patterns, and factors affecting the return rate of carcharhinid and other sharks tagged off northern Australia 1983 1985 Southwest Pacific Conventional SPINNER SHARK / Carcharhinus brevipinna John Stevens
    Movements, recapture patterns, and factors affecting the return rate of carcharhinid and other sharks tagged off northern Australia 1983 1985 Southwest Pacific Conventional SPOTTAIL SHARK / Carcharhinus sorrah John Stevens
    Movement patterns of rig (Mustelus lenticulatus) tagged in southern New Zealand 1978 1986 Subtropical Convergence Conventional SPOTTED ESTUARY SMOOTH-HOUND / Mustelus lenticulatus Malcolm Francis
    Movements, recapture patterns, and factors affecting the return rate of carcharhinid and other sharks tagged off northern Australia 1983 1985 Southwest Pacific Conventional TAWNY NURSE SHARK / Nebrius ferrugineus John Stevens
    Untitled STAGIS Field Study 1996 2006 Kuroshio Conventional THRESHER SHARKS NEI / Alopias spp. Hiroaki Matsunaga
    Gamefish Tagging Programme 2001 2011 Southwest Pacific Conventional THRESHER SHARKS NEI / Alopias spp. John Holdsworth
    Habitat use and foraging behavior of tiger sharks 1997 2000 Southwest Pacific Sonic TIGER SHARK / Galeocerdo cuvier Michael Heithaus
    Long-term movement patterns of tiger sharks Galeocerdo cuvier in Hawaii 2003 2005 North Central Pacific Sonic TIGER SHARK / Galeocerdo cuvier Carl Meyer
    Movements of tiger sharks in coastal Hawaiian waters 1993 1997 North Central Pacific Sonic TIGER SHARK / Galeocerdo cuvier Kim Holland
    Untitled STAGIS Field Study 2002 2010 Subtropical Convergence Sonic TIGER SHARK / Galeocerdo cuvier Russell Bradford
    Untitled STAGIS Field Study 2002 2010 Subtropical Convergence Satellite TIGER SHARK / Galeocerdo cuvier Russell Bradford
    Using acoustic telemetry monitoring techniques to quantify movement patterns and site fidelity of sharks 2000 2003 North Central Pacific Sonic TIGER SHARK / Galeocerdo cuvier Christopher Lowe
    Connectivity of Tiger (Galeocerdo cuvier) andother large shark species in the South Pacific 2009 2010 Southwest Pacific Sonic TIGER SHARK / Galeocerdo cuvier Jonathan Werry
    Movements, recapture patterns, and factors affecting the return rate of carcharhinid and other sharks tagged off northern Australia 1983 1985 Southwest Pacific Conventional TIGER SHARK / Galeocerdo cuvier John Stevens
    Connectivity of Tiger (Galeocerdo cuvier) andother large shark species in the South Pacific 2009 2009 Southwest Pacific Satellite TIGER SHARK / Galeocerdo cuvier Jonathan Werry
    Untitled STAGIS Field Study 2004 2010 South Central Pacific Sonic TIGER SHARK / Galeocerdo cuvier Juerg Brunnschweiler
    Site fidelity and movements of sharks associated with ocean-farming cages in Hawaii 2006 2009 North Central Pacific Sonic TIGER SHARK / Galeocerdo cuvier Yannis Papastamatiou
    A multiple instrument approach to quantifying the movement patterns and habitat use of tiger and Galapagos sharks at French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii 2006 2009 North Central Pacific Satellite TIGER SHARK / Galeocerdo cuvier Carl Meyer
    Untitled STAGIS Field Study 2001 2010 Kuroshio Satellite WHALE SHARK / Rhincodon typus Hua-Hsun Hsu
    Untitled STAGIS Field Study 1998 2010 Subtropical Convergence Sonic WHALE SHARK / Rhincodon typus Russell Bradford
    Untitled STAGIS Field Study 1998 2010 Subtropical Convergence Satellite WHALE SHARK / Rhincodon typus Russell Bradford
    Movements of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in South-east Asian waters as determined by satellite telemetry 1997 1997 North Central Pacific Satellite WHALE SHARK / Rhincodon typus Scott Eckert
    Telemetry and satellite tracking of whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico, and the north Pacific Ocean 1993 1996 California current Satellite WHALE SHARK / Rhincodon typus Scott Eckert
    Movements, recapture patterns, and factors affecting the return rate of carcharhinid and other sharks tagged off northern Australia 1983 1985 Southwest Pacific Conventional WHITECHEEK SHARK / Carcharhinus dussumieri John Stevens
    Variation in depth of whitetip reef sharks: does provisioning ecotourism change their behaviour ? 2004 2006 Southwest Pacific Archival WHITETIP REEF SHARK / Triaenodon obesus Richard Fitzpatrick