Migramar attended a two-day workshop in Guayaquil on the Shark Plans of Action for the nations comprising the South Pacific Permanent Commission (CPPS) and to provide input on the draft Regional Shark Plan of Action.

Migramar presented results of the Shark Research and Conservation Program of the Galapagos Marine Reserve in the Galapagos Science Symposium, which was part of the 50 year celebration of the Charles Darwin Foundation.

Migramar's Prof. Pete Klimley and Dr. Alex Hearn attended and gave presentations at the 2009 Joint Meeting of the Ichthyology and Herpetology Societies, during which the American Elasmobranch Society held their symposium.

Besides research cruises to Galapagos, Cocos and Malpelo over the next couple of months, Migramar research will be featuring heavily at scientific conferences in various locations.

Galapagos – Both Sides of the Coin, published this month by biologist Graham Watkins and photographer Pete Oxford, features research carried out by Galapagos-based Migramar research team.

Migramar's Alex Hearn (UC Davis) and Randall Arauz (PRETOMA) attended the workshop on climate change and adaptation options for cetaceans and other marine biodiversity of the eastern Pacific.

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Eduardo Espinoza (in the photo, centre left), member of Migramar and Head of Marine Research at the Galapagos National Park Service, attended as a representative of Ecuador, along with Manuel Bravo, from the Ministry of Environment.

A 10 m long female was tagged at Darwin Island in November 2008 during our bi-annual expedition to the northern part of the Galapagos archipelago, where we tagged 10 more hammerheads with coded tags and carried out the tracking of a hammerhead shark for 48 hrs.

Migramar members Randall Arauz and Ilena Zanela attended the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain, to guarantee the approval of Resolution 4.111 regarding leatherback turtles and hammerhead sharks in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.

Scientists at the Charles Darwin Foundation and Galápagos National Park Service returned from a research cruise to Darwin and Wolf islands with news of a hammerhead shark tagged in Malpelo having been detected in the Galápagos Marine Reserve.

Migramar scientists from throughout the Eastern Tropical Pacific participated in a workshop in Manta, Ecuador, to discuss the developments of national Plans of Action for shark resources, and to provide technical advice on possible management measures.

On April 8th, the National Geographic channel premiered its latest masterpiece: Shark Superhighways, by Tom Lucas Productions. This one-hour documentary follows Dr. Pete Klimley during a cruise at Darwin and Wolf, in the Galapagos islands.

During a research cruise in March, the team from Pretoma, who are studying the shark populations of Cocos island, discovered that a female hammerhead, tagged in Galapagos in July 2007 had appeared at Cocos at the end of September.

Today marked the launch of migramar.org, a website created jointly by marine research centres in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, focused on working together to understand the dynamics of migratory species in the region, with a special focus on sharks.