Excited to be in Mürren in the Swiss Alps for our Shark Bay Dolphin Research work retreat - great talks and great company! 🙌🏻 Thank you for organising Michael Krützen 🙏🏻

And our 2022 field season is underway!🥳 Our team have arrived in #SharkBay #Gathaagudu to kick things off and we have many exciting months ahead with all four PIs, 8 PhD students and 1 Masters student heading to the field this year. Watch this space for lots of 🐬🐬🐬 updates!

Our field teams are now in full swing in both the eastern and western gulfs of Shark Bay, conducting a number of research projects on dolphin ecology and behaviour. Check out these amazing colours (and a few feathered friends) 😎🐬

We are celebrating 40 years of research on the #Gathaagudu #SharkBay dolphins 🥳, founded by Richard Connor and Rachel Smolker in 1982. SBDR has shed important light on male cooperation, cultural evolution, dolphin ecology + communication UZH Science University of Bristol Biological Sciences School of Biological Sciences, UWA

We are incredibly grateful for the investment by UZH Science into our long-term fieldwork and our amazing new research station that makes fieldwork more productive (and comfortable!) 🙏🏻 #40years

BIG shout out to our wonderful research group who are leading the way with their exciting research: @ManuelaBizzozz3 Riccardo Cicciarella Svenja Marfurt Kathryn G Holmes Pernille M Sørensen Emma Chereskin Laura Palmer Stephanie Mason (she/they) @samwisewitt Felix Smith and Julia Weidmann 🙌🏻🐬🐬🐬

MASSIVE Congratulations to Dr Sam Wittwer @samwisewitt for passing his PhD defense today! 🍾🥳🙌🏻 We are so proud of all the fantastic work you have done as part of your PhD🐬🐬🐬 thank you also for being our database whiz and for always making us laugh 🙏🏻

Team West(ern Gulf of Shark Bay) have had a very productive field season, running a number of PhD projects and continuing our long-term data collection - in this thread we share some of their exciting work!🐬🐬🐬

Field work is always great but it is even greater with good company! Looking back on a wonderful two weeks of the BIO341 field course UZH Science where students learned how to conduct boat-based research and got to experience what field work with Shark Bay Dolphin Research

Phase 2 of the 2024 Shark Bay Dolphin Research field season is underway with a new base set up on the remote Dirk Harthog Island. With brilliant weather, we have thoroughly explored this new + stunning field site. Meeting new dolphins, tiger sharks, dugongs + turtles, is a very happy team!

I have no words to describe how awesome this lab is for doing your postdoc! APPLY, APPLY, APPLY!!!

Great talk by Svenja Marfurt on seascape genomics, ecological change and adaptation in coastal bottlenose dolphins in WA #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 University of Zurich

Fabulous talk by @ManuelaBizzozz3 using remote sensing data and environmental DNA to study the ecology and behaviour of bottlenose dolphins #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024 University of Zurich

Excellent but sobering talk by Felix Smith on the impact of an extreme climatic event (marine heatwave) on the survival of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024