Lab Updates Ben D'Antonio joins the Sequeira Lab as PhD student Ben D’Antonio has joined the Sequeira lab to undertake an exciting project investigating the vertical and horizontal movements of apex predators at two World Heritage sites in Western Australia. Ben’s PhD work will be embedded in the Gathaagudu Animal Tracking (GAT) ...
Publications New paper on the first insights into whale shark movements in northern Arabian Sea! We are happy to announce that research led by Lucy Arrowsmith has been published in Frontiers in Marine Science! This research, ‘First Insights into the Horizontal Movements of Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus) in the Northern Arabian Sea,’ shows the first data of whale sharks tagged in the northern Ar
Field Work We have satellite-tagged our first turtle for the Gathaagudu Animal Tracking (GAT) Project! The Sequeira Lab is excited to announce that we have recently returned from our first field trip to Shark Bay or “Gathaagudu” as it is called by the Malgana Peoples, the traditional owners of this region in Western Australia.
Lab Updates Come join our team! Sequeira Lab is currently advertising two fantastic opportunities for Research Associate positions with our lab! We are looking for curious, enthusiastic and self-driven researchers looking to further develop their quantitative skills and expand their horizons through marine animal movement ecology.
Publications Our recent standardisation paper makes cover of Methods in Ecology and Evolution! SequeiraLab is excited to announce that our recent publication led by Ana Sequeira on a standardisation framework for biologging data has made the cover of Methods in Ecology and Evolution! The collaborative project involved more than 40 contributors, including key members of IMOS, AODN, ATN, ONR an
Lab Updates Mike Taylor has done a fantastic PhD proposal presentation! Mike Taylor has presented his PhD Proposal, one of the first major milestones of his PhD. Feedback that he receives on his project looking at grazing marine megafauna will help shape the rest of his PhD.
Lab Updates Charlotte has submitted her PhD thesis! We are excited to report that Charlotte has submitted her PhD thesis.
Conferences Sequeira Lab students present at a Research Symposium Hannah Calich, Lucy Arrowsmith, Michelle VanCompernolle, and Megan Meyers to present their research at a 4-day retreat in Albany (Western Australia) organised by the University of Western Australia’s (UWA) Oceans Graduate School (OGS)!
Lab Updates A collaboration with the University of California through Arina’s PhD dissertation Dr Ana Sequeira has joined the dissertation committee for Ms Arina Favilla who is doing her PhD degree at the University of California, Santa Cruz (USCS).
Lab Updates What's coming up for Sequeira Lab in 2021 We are excited to see what 2021 holds for Sequeiralab
Lab Updates Reflecting on 2020 - what a rollercoaster! As 2020 draws to a close, we are reflecting on the year that was. Despite the pandemic-related challenges, SequeiraLab had a productive year...
Publications Recent global shark movement paper published in Nature has reached highly cited status The recent Nature paper led by Nuno Queiroz and David Sims plus a team of co-authors including Dr Ana Sequeira is now in the top 1% of cited papers within the same field and publication year!
A trip to Shark Bay kicked off our Gathaagudu Animal Tracking (GAT) Project We are excited to report back on our first field trip to Shark Bay as part of the Gathaagudu Animal Tracking (GAT) Project. The team of co-CIs Ana Sequeira and Matthew Fraser, and members Takahiro Shimada and Mike Taylor were rewarded in making the 1,600 km round trip from Perth to Denham in Shark B
Publications Insights into animal navigation in open ocean We are excited to report that Dr Ana Sequeira was invited to write a dispatch for the esteemed journal Current Biology.
Funding Sequeira Lab awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery grant Ana has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Australian Research Council as lead Chief Investigator of a team of four. The grant is for their global project Dynamic assessment of threats to marine megafauna in face of global change.
Lab Updates Tracking denizens of the deep to protect their future Dr Ana Sequeira's global collaborative projects were recently featured in the Pawsey Supercomputer Center's Science Showcase. The projects involve hundreds of researchers worldwide combining their tracking datasets and they have now collated over three decades of animal movement data.
Events Jess shows the community our coastal biodiversity Recently, our Master's student Jess participated in a community biodiversity awareness event for the public to learn about our local coastal ecosystems. The event was run by local artist and biodiversity educator, Angela Rossen, with the UWA School of Biological Sciences, Quinns Rocks Environmental
Publications Recent paper published on the growth and energetic requirements of yellowtail kingfish We are very happy to announce that research led by Callum Donohue and Ana Sequeira has been published in the journal Aquaculture. This research, Bioenergetic growth model for the yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi), provides a mathematical model to predict the energetic requirements and biochemica
Awards Charlotte Birkmanis wins national award We are excited to report that Charlotte Birkmanis has been awarded the 2020 Student International Travel Scholarship from the Australian Society of Fish Biology. This merit-based scholarship supports a researcher to present their work at an international conference.
New paper assessing how much tracking data biases affect species distribution models Dr Ana Sequeira and Dr Malcolm O’Toole have led a newly published paper on tracking marine animals published in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution. The study Quantifying effects of tracking data bias on species distribution models used simulation data emulating the movement of marine preda
Events Join Lucy Arrowsmith on the 14th October for a livestream about whale sharks! Want to learn about whale sharks and what influences the movements of this charismatic megafauna? Here is an opportunity to do so! Join Lucy Arrowsmith as she shares her PhD research and takes us into the world of this ocean giant, revealing details of their life below the surface.
Lab Updates The Sequeira Lab threw some axes (at inanimate objects) The Sequeira Lab went on our first lab outing of 2020! We are fortunate in Western Australia to have life 'almost' back to normal now (with the due precautions). So, what better way to get out pent up pandemic frustration than to throw some large axes at a target?
Lab Updates A new post-doc at Sequeira Lab Takahiro Shimada has just joined the Sequeira Lab! Taka has been heavily involved in research and conservation of sea turtles for the last 14 years.
Watch the video abstract entered by our student Jessica Pearce into PacBio’s competition Our Master’s student Jessica Pearce participated in the recent video abstract competition held by Pacific Bioscience (PacBio), on behalf of UWA Oceans Institute and DNA Zoo Australia.
