Topic: Elasmobranchs (Sharks Skates & Rays)

Oceania Chondrichthyan Society

📚 Category: Biology & Ecology

🏷️ Topics include: Elasmobranchs (Sharks Skates & Rays)

📍 Country/Region: Asia; Oceania

The Oceania Chondricthyan Society (OCS) was founded in 2005 and works to promote and support shark and ray science, conservation and sustainability throughout the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean regions. The OCS is an international non-profit organisation created ‘To promote and facilitate the advancement of the scientific study of chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras), the promotion of education, conservation, and sustainable utilisation of natural resources, and to provide a medium for the exchange of information and ideas among those studying chondrichthyan fishes.’

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Minorities in Shark Science

📚 Category: Biology & Ecology

🏷️ Topics include: Elasmobranchs (Sharks Skates & Rays); Diversity & Inclusion

📍 Country/Region: International

We were founded by four Black female shark researchers. We strive to be seen and take up space in a discipline which has been largely inaccessible for women like us. We strive to be positive role models for the next generation. We seek to promote diversity and inclusion in shark science and encourage women of color to push through barriers and contribute knowledge in marine science. Finally, we hope to topple the system that has historically excluded women like us and create an equitable path to shark science. We believe diversity in scientists creates diversity in thought, which leads to innovation.

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American Elasmobranch Society

📚 Category: Biology & Ecology

🏷️ Topics include: Elasmobranchs (Sharks, Skates, & Rays)

📍 Country/Region: USA

The American Elasmobranch Society is a non-profit organization that seeks to advance the scientific study of living and fossil sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras, and the promotion of education, conservation, and wise utilization of natural resources.

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