Shark scientist 🦈 & behavioural ecologist | Animal Social Networks Junior Professor at University of Montpellier @umontpellier.bsky.social | Lab MARBEC Website

Postdoc in the Marine Behavioural Ecology group at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. Working with acoustic telemetry to create a digital twin of

Shark scientist since 1986. Passionate about sharks and rays, and their conservation and management. Lapsed academic.

Professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), interested mainly in marine conservation, historical ecology, reef fishes, ecosystem services.

Into underwater fine-scale positioning, acoustic telemetry, data visualization. #trackingnotslacking franksmithxyz.com