Month: February 2017

Congratulations to recent MLML graduate, Liz Gagneron, of the Biological Oceanography lab and current student, Heather Kramp, of the Ichthyology lab for their new state fellowship positions with California Sea Grant.

Read more about the Seagrant fellowships here: https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/news/class-of-2017-state-fellows-announced

Kristin Walovich, graduate student in the Pacific Shark Research Center here at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, is featured in a Live Science article with her discovery of the second largest species of ghost shark: Hydrolagus erithacus.

Read the full article here: Smile! New Bucktoothed Ghost Shark Species Discovered

Read Walovich's paper, published in Zootaxa, here: Hydrolagus erithacus sp. nov. (Chimaerifirmes: Chimaeridae), a new species of chimaerid from the southeastern Atlantic and southwestern Indian Ocean