Erin Dillon

Erin Dillon

Mar 05, 2017

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Curacao sampling trip complete!

With the final samples collected and videos posted, the Baseline Caribbean expedition to Curacao has come to a close. You can watch all of the videos in order on our Baseline Caribbean YouTube channel (embedded below). Also, continue to check out the Baseline Caribbean website for updates as we begin to process the ~600kg of sediment in search of shark denticles, fish ear bones and teeth, molluscs, coral, sponge spicules, and more.



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About This Project

How many sharks should there be on Caribbean reefs? Despite evidence suggesting that sharks once existed in numbers unheard of today, this critical question remains unanswered. We discovered that sharks leave a record of their presence in the form of dermal denticles, the tiny, tooth-like scales lining their skin, preserved in reef sediments. We are now pioneering denticles as an ecological tool to reconstruct pre-human shark baselines and supplement surveys on modern reefs.

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