Since 1997 the Foundation supports Scientific Research Projects with the emphasis on shark preservation. The results of some of the research projects have been published in well known scinetific journals, as posters or in other forms.

Index

J. E. Magnussen, E. K. Pikitch, S. C. Clarke, C. Nicholson, A. R. Hoelzel & M. S. Shivji. 2007
Genetic tracking of basking shark products in international trade
Animal Conservation 10 (2007) 199-207.

Shelley C. Clarke, Murdoch K. McAllister, E. J. Milner-Gulland, G. P. Kirkwood, Catherine G. J. Michielsens, David J. Agnew, Ellen K. Pikitch, Hideki Nakano and Mahmood S. Shivji. 2006
Global estimates of shark catches using trade records from commercial markets
Ecology Letters, (2006) 9: 1115–1126

Mahmood S. Shivji, Demian D. Chapman, Ellen K. Pikitch & Paul W. Raymond. 2005
Genetic profiling reveals illegal international trade in fins of the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Conservation Genetics

Chapman, D.D., P.A. Prodohl, J. Gelsleichter, C.A. Manire and M.S. Shivji. 2004.
Predominance of genetic monogamy by females in a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo: Implications for shark conservation.
Molecular Ecology 13: 1965-1974.

D. Chapman, D. Abercrombie, C. Douady, E. Pikitch, M. Stanhope and M. Shivji. 2003.
A streamlined, bi-organelle, multiplex PCR approach to species identification: application to global conservation and trade monitoring of the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
Conservation Genetics 4(4): 415-425.

C. J. Douady, M. Dosay, M. S. Shivji, and M. J. Stanhope. 2003.
Molecular phylogenetic evidence refuting the hypothesis of Batoidea (rays and skates) as derived sharks.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26: 215-221.

Pank, M., L. Natanson, N. Kohler, M. Stanhope and M. Shivji. 2003.
Rapid species identification of pelagic shark tissues using genetic approaches.
In: Sharks of the Open Ocean. E. Pikitch & M. Camhi (Eds.). Blackwell Science Inc. (In Press).

M. Shivji, S. Clarke, M. Pank, L. Natanson, N. Kohler and M. Stanhope. 2002.
Genetic Identification of Pelagic Shark Body Parts for Conservation and Trade-Monitoring.
Conservation Biology, 16(4):1036-1047.

M. Pank, M. Stanhope, L. Natanson, N. Kohler and M. Shivji. 2001.
Rapid and simultaneous identification of body parts from the morphologically similar sharks Carcharhinus obscurus and Carcharhinus plumbeus (Carcharhinidae) using multiplex PCR.
Marine Biotechnology 3:231-240.

Juerg M. Brunnschweiler & John L. Earle. 2006.
Acontribution to marine life conservation efforts in the South Pacific: The Shark Reef Marine Reserve, Fiji
Cybium (2006), 30(4) suppl.: 133-139.

Presentation of the first results of the Rookery Bay / Tenthousand Islands shark nursery project by Pat O'Donnel:
 Rookery Bay Poster (PDF, 304 kb)

E.J. Southall, D.W. Sims, J.D. Metcalfe, J.I. Doyle, S. Fanshawe, C. Lacey, J. Shrimpton, J.-L. Solandt and C.D. Speedie. 2005.
Spatial distribution patterns of basking sharks on the European shelf: preliminary comparison of satellite-tag geolocation, survey and public sightings data.
J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. (2005), 85, 1083-1088

Ritter, Erich K. and Godknecht, Alexander J.; 2000.
Agonistic displays in the Blacktip Shark (Carcharhinus limbatus).
Copeia. 2000(1). February 1, 2000. 282-284.

Influences of biogeographic changes in the Gulf of Mexico on molecular population structures of the shovelnose hammerhead-shark Sphyrna tiburo.
Markus Ruch, Masters thesis at the Zoological Museum, University of Zürich, January 2001.