Further Information
Activities and Clubs
Adopt a Shark
https://gifts.worldwildlife.org/gift-center/gifts/Species-Adoptions.aspx
The World Wildlife Fund Adopt a Shark program offers you a chance to officially adopt a shark and follow it in its daily life while supporting conservation efforts.
Gills Club
http://www.gillsclub.org/about
This club was founded in 2014 by women, with the goal of inspiring and supporting girls interested in sharks and shark research. It’s part of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, based in Chatham, Massachusetts. Members include girls as well as women shark scientists. Meeting locations include the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Massachusetts, the Seattle Aquarium in Washington, and the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida.
Identify a Shark
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/id-key-sharks/
The Florida Museum of Natural History/University of Florida offers in-depth information for identifying sharks in the Atlantic Ocean. Check out this site for photographs and a dichotomous key to help you narrow down your shark based on its physical features.
Report Shark Sightings
http://www.sharkresearchcommittee.com/pacific_coast_shark_news.htm
For Pacific Coast shark sightings, you can report your sightings to this website by providing details about your location and your observation. Read the latest news from other contributors at this site.
http://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/sharktivity-map/
For Atlantic Coast shark sightings, report your sightings and track tagged sharks at this website. Provide details about your location and your observation and learn about other participants’ experiences at this spot.
Report Whale Shark Sightings
http://whaleshark.org
Wildbook for Whale Sharks allows citizen scientists to contribute photographs and to match their sharks with those in the catalog.
Seek Shark Egg Cases
http://www.sharktrust.org/en/usa_eggcases
The Save Our Seas Foundation sponsors the Great Eggcase Hunt project. Some people call egg cases mermaids’ purses. Small egg-laying sharks and rays deposit these egg cases, or egg-filled black rectangular pockets, onto rocks, seagrass, and other underwater surfaces. The pockets have tentacles at each corner for clinging to surfaces. The Great Eggcase Hunt project invites beachcombers, snorkelers, and divers to report empty egg cases to help pinpoint shark nurseries.
Shark Stewards Conservation Club
http://sharkstewards.org/get-involved/
Learn about starting a school shark club and doing other volunteer work and fund-raising for shark conservation and research.
We Love Sharks (Discovery Channel Shark Week)
http://welovesharks.club
Find information, news, photographs, and videos, as well as links to shark clothing, toys, and other items.
Smartphone apps
These apps allow you to follow individual sharks on interactive maps. You can see where each shark is in real time and track where it has been previously.
Global Shark Tracker, Ocearch
http://www.ocearch.org/tracker/
Sharktivity, Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
http://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/sharktivity-map/
Track Tagged Sharks
You can follow tagged sharks in a variety of different ways and through technologies provided by various institutions. Below are two examples:
Use Twitter to follow daily postings from citizen scientists and researchers about the whereabouts and activities of popular sharks.
Track a tiger shark tagged by the Guy Harvey Research Institute at http://cnso.nova .edu/ghri/tiger-sharks/.
Websites
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
http://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org
Enter contests (for example, to win a ticket for a great white shark expedition in Cape Cod) and learn about and support the research of shark scientists in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The Shark Lab, California State University, Long Beach
http://www.csulb.edu/natural-sciences-mathematics-biological-sciences/explore /shark-lab
Follow the work of Chris Lowe’s SharkLab, and learn about Shark Week.
Shark Zone, Center for Shark Research, Marine Mote Laboratory
https://mote.org/exhibits/details/shark-zone
Learn the history of shark research, get information about the aquarium here, find out about internships, and more.
Books
Benchley, Peter, and Karen Wojtyla. Shark Life: True Stories about Sharks and the Sea. New York: Yearling, 2007. Adapted from Peter Benchley. Shark! True Stories and Lessons from the Deep. New York: Collins, 2002.
Clark, Eugenie. The Lady and the Sharks. Sarasota, FL: Peppertree, 2010.
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves. The Shark: Splendid Savage of the Sea. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970.
Downer, Ann. The Animal Mating Game. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2017.
Montgomery, Sy. The Great White Shark Scientist. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2017.
Muller, Michael. Sharks: Face-to-Face with the Ocean’s Endangered Predator. New York: Taschen, 2016.
Musick, John A., and Beverly McMillan. The Shark Chronicles: A Scientist Tracks the Consummate Predator. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.
Young, Karen Romano. Whale Quest. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2018.
Zimmer, Marc. Bioluminescence: Nature and Science at Work. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2016.
Videos
“Great White Mysteries: Shark Tagging with Ocearch.” CBS This Morning, January 9, 2012.http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/cbs-this-morning/video/381939/great-white -mysteries-shark-tagging-with-ocearch-24674418/.Watch this interview with Chris Fischer about the work of tagging sharks aboard Ocearch.
“October 21, 2017, Off Chatham, Cape Cod.” Atlantic Great White Shark Conservancy.https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/10/23/this-graphic-video-captured-a -great-white-shark-devouring-a-seal-off-cape-cod. In this video filmed at the beach, a great white shark attacks a seal.
“REMUS SharkCam: The Hunter and the Hunted.” WHOI Oceanographic Systems Lab, 2013. http://www.whoi.edu/remus-sharkcam/hunterandhunted. This video taken by AUV glider REMUS shows sharks in their natural habitat—and how they react to the glider.
“Seeing Deeper into the White Shark’s World—Greg Skomal—TedxNewBedford.” YouTube video, 19:19. Posted by TEDxTalks, December 2, 2015. https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=03Ex3obOI1Q. Shark researcher Greg Skomal describes his path to becoming a scientist and studying sharks.