Beth Bowers

Beth Bowers is a PhD student in the Integrative Biology program at Florida Atlantic University. Her dissertation research focuses on the blacktip shark migration in the Western Atlantic. She has been studying the blacktip migration for the past two years and has successfully instrumented 51 male blacktip sharks with acoustic transmitters. She also maintains the local array of acoustic receivers and shares the data with members of the collaborative telemetry networks, FACT, ACT, and iTAG.

Beth is a member of three scientific societies; the American Elasmobranch Society, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and the Marine Technology Society. She has given five oral presentations and presented one poster about the blacktip shark migration at various scientific conferences.

Beth has received various scholarships for her dissertation research, including from the Friends of Gumbo Limbo and the Palm Beach Fishing Club. Beth is President of the College of Science Graduate Student Association and is the Lab Supervisor of the FAU Elasmobranch Research Laboratory.

May 2016