We are a team of scientists committed to generate the impetus needed to overhaul marine megafauna conservation at global scale.
Our goal is to bring together the marine movement ecology to join efforts in addressing this global challenge.
Meet our global members
About Us
dr. Ana M. M. Sequeira
Lead coordinator, Research Director, and Chair of Steering Committee
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Ana has pioneered the development of global distribution models for marine megafauna and collaborative efforts to investigate marine megafauna movement globally. She is interested in the development of models to assist understanding the marine environment, with a strong emphasis in supporting marine spatial planning and conservation.
01/07
01/07
Prof. Daniel P. Costa
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Dan is interested in movement, foraging ecology, and energetics of pinnipeds, cetaceans, and seabirds. Dan’s lab focuses on animal movement and behavior, animals as ocean sensors, physiological ecology and population consequences of disturbance.
He has contributed to a number of international initiatives: Tagging of Pacific Pelagics, the Census of Marine Life, Southern Elephant Seals as Oceanographic Sensors (SEAoS), the IPY program Marine Mammals as Explorers Ocean Pole to Pole (MEOPP), and Southern Ocean GLOBEC.
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02/07
02/07
Prof. Carlos M. Duarte
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Carlos is a world-wide leader in multiple branches of biological oceanography and marine ecology and a leading authority on the ecology of seagrass meadows. He works from the tropics to polar ecosystems, from macrophytes to microbes, from coastal systems to open ocean gyres using all types of approaches.
Many of his synthesis papers have set the stage for the field and his research is also characterized by versatility addressing marine ecosystems from the tropics to polar ecosystems, from macrophytes to microbes, and from coastal systems to open ocean gyres using a broad range of approaches.
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03/07
03/07
Dr. Victor M. Eguiluz
Instituto de Física Interdisicplianry Sistemas Complejos IFISC at the University of the Ballearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Victor is a Physicist interested in interdisciplinary research using Complex Systems approaches to describe generic phenomena (such movement), and focusing on the connection between theoretical results with experimental and empirical work.
His group focuses on the connection between microscopic rules and macroscopic phenomena, the structure-function connection in interacting systems, the use of Big Data for large-scale analysis, in systems at the interface between Physics and Biology, and Physics and social phenomena.
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04/07
04/07
Prof. Robert Harcourt
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Rob specialises in seals, whales, marine science ecosystems, ocean observing, animal behaviour and ecology and has made valuable contributions to conservation of large marine vertebrates including sharks, seals, and whales.
He leads the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility and Network and his Marine Predator Research Group has broad interests in the behaviour, ecology and conservation of animals which occupy higher trophic levels in marine food webs, researching animal communication, mating preferences, individual differences, sociality and population genetics through to more applied research on foraging ecology, animal movements, population dynamics, conservation physiology and anthropogenic interactions.
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05/07
05/07
Prof. Graeme Hays
Deakin University, Warrnambool, Australia
Graeme is interested in broad aspects of marine science, including behavioural, physiological and molecular ecology as well as biological oceanography. He is an expert in marine turtles but has worked with a range of marine species, both vertebrates and invertebrates.
His research places a strong emphasis on the use of innovative marine technology and cross disciplinary collaboration, for example with physical oceanographers, mathematicians and physicists.
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06/07
06/07
Dr. Mark G. Meekan
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Perth, Australia
Mark’s research interests fall within the broad topics of the fish biology and ecology, with a strong focus on elasmobranchs.
He is interested in the sensory ecology and behaviour of reef fish during the larval and juvenile stages, all the way to the examination of the ecology and migration patterns of elasmobranchs and reef fishes. Mark is involved in large, multi-agency collaborative projects, and works with numerous post-graduate students.
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07/07
07/07
Prof. David Sims
Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, UK
David’s research focuses on the behaviour and ecology of animal movements in relation to environmental changes and the consequences for conservation.
A key aim has been to obtain new insights using novel telemetry, bio-logging and analytical approaches, work which has led to ocean-scale assessments of anthropogenic threats to pelagic sharks. David is also professor at the University of Southampton’s National Oceanography Centre.
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01/03
Dr Jorge P. Rodríguez
IMEDEA
Jorge P. Rodríguez is a physicist and anthropologist interested in the emergent phenomena arising from interactions in complex systems. His research focuses on the analysis of movement data and the effects of movement on dynamical processes. He is currently a Juan de la Cierva Fellow at IMEDEA, in Esporles, Spain.
02/03
Dr Mirjam van Der Mheen
University of Western Australia
Mirjam is a physical oceanographer with a specific interest in how floating objects (such as plastic waste) are transported at the ocean surface on large scales, and in using large datasets of observations in new ways to gain a deeper understanding of the ocean environment. She is now working as a Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.
03/03
Dr Sarah Marley
Scotland's Rural College (SRUC)
Sarah is a marine megafauna ecologist, specialising on aspects of animal behaviour, bioacoustics, and human impacts. She has extensive experience in a range of field and analytical techniques, and is an award-winning science communicator. She is now a Lecturer in Ecology at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).
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