🏆 Award Announcement 🏆 We are pleased to announce that Bailee Woolley from IMAS has won the 2021 OCS Student Research Grant!!! Thank you to everyone who submitted an application this year. Bailee will receive $2000 to assist with her PhD research on the Melbourne #skate.

📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗿 📢 Curious to know what 2021 OCS Student Research Award winner Bailee Woolley has been up to? Well, you can read all about her work on the Melbourne #skate in the upcoming OCS Newsletter!!!

📰 Newsletter Update 📰 The OCS Newsletter is out 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆!!! Check your inbox and read all about the Ray Report Card, research on the Melbourne #skate, diversifying #shark science and so much more!!! Enjoy! And thank you to those who contributed!!!

An IMAS study has found Macquarie Harbour is the last refuge for #endangered Maugean Skate - after DNA surveys of Bathurst Harbour only found minute🧬traces. It confirms conserving the Mac Harbour pop'n is the only option for this unique species' survival bit.ly/3cVqDWf

After nearly 2 years of PhD field work, the last season of Melbourne skate sampling is here 🙏🏽👏🏽🦈 @ Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies instagram.com/p/CiRwNrSrBeA/…

Listening to Kate Ollerhead talking abt the impacts of climate change on the physiology of school sharks in Southeast Tasmania. Interesting stuff!! Respirometry, bloodwork & more more cool stuff 😎 #ASFB2022 IMAS Sciences and Engineering at University of Tasmania

The Melbourne skate lives fast and dies young! Preliminary investigations to age this species suggest they grow faster, but have lower maximum age estimates than their similar sized counterparts Bailee Woolley #ASFB2022

Another fantastic talk from an IMAS student! Great to see such a strong representation of students from sunny Tassie at @asfb2022!

First PhD conference ✅ Presented some prelim age and growth data for the vulnerable Melbourne #skate. Big thanks to the ASFB community for being so welcoming! 🔬🦈 #ASFB2022

Last week during the ASFB conference, OCS took the opportunity to gather attending members for a catch up!!! It was wonderful to see so many of you in person after such a long break. We hope you enjoyed the night & the chance to talk all things #sharks & #rays!!!

Thanks to IPFC2023 and ASFB for letting me talk about some cool findings from my PhD on the Melbourne #skate. What a great conference so far 😁🦈 #ipfc2023

Extremely honoured to have been awarded the Gilbert P Whitley Award (Senior) for my oral presentation at the IPFC/ASFB Conference. Can’t thank IPFC2023 and ASFB enough for this award! Well done to all the students that presented this week!!! #IPFC11

IMAS PhD candidate Bailee Woolley claimed the Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) Gilbert P. Whitley Award for outstanding senior student presentation on fish or fisheries at the combined ASFB and Indo-Pacific Fish Conference in Auckland, NZ this week. University of Tasmania

A very big 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 to OCS member Bailee Woolley for winning the Gilbert P Whitley Award for best oral presentation IPFC2023 out of 180 students that presented!

Had the best time presenting my final PhD chapter at #AMSANZMSS2024 AMSA-NSMSS 2024 Conference on the Melbourne skate. An awesome week with some incredible talks. IMAS