Ana attends the Science at the Shine Dome 2024 & receives the prestigious Fenner Medal 2024

This week, our Lab lead Associate Professor Ana Sequeira has been at the Canberra’s iconic Shine Dome to attend the fantastic event: Science at the Shine Dome 2024, the Australian Academy of Science’s flagship event... A significant highlight for Ana was the Awards Ceremony where she received the pr

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Ana visits the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour in Germany

Ana has just returned from her visit to the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour in Germany, where she gave a seminar and connected with incredible researchers.

New students

Introducing Jaiden Lane, our new Honours student!

Jaiden Lane has joined us as an Honours student at the Sequeira Lab at the Research School of Biology, Australian National University (ANU)! Jaiden's research will focus on developing methods for mitogenome sequencing which test natal homing hypotheses in green sea turtles, under the supervision of

Publications

Proposing a new framework for optimising global collaborative projects in conservation

The Sequeira Lab is excited to share the paper “A framework for optimising opportunistic collaborative syntheses to propel ecological conservation” led by Ana Sequeira has just been published in the journal Biological Conservation.

Ana was a panellist at The Anthropocene Conference of the Max Planck Institute of GeoAnthropology

Sequeira Lab lead Assoc Prof Ana Sequeira has just arrived back from a trip to Germany, where she was an invited panelist at the Crossing Boundaries in Science 2024: The Anthropocene conference.

Publications

The power of marine megafauna migrations: a nature-based solution for financing global biodiversity conservation

The SequeiraLab is thrilled to share that the paper “Ecosystem services ‘on the move’ as a nature-based solution for financing the Global Biodiversity Framework” led by Ana Sequeira, U. Rashid Sumaila, and Abbie A. Rogers has just been published in the journal npj Ocean Sustainability.

Field trip

A successful deployment of the first acoustic receiver array in Shark Bay!

The SequeiraLab team has just returned from a fieldtrip to Shark Bay, Western Australia, after deploying the first acoustic receivers in this region! This work is the result of a collaboration with IMOS, the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System, and is a great advancement for our ongoing ti

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SequeiraLab member just arrived from a teaching trip to China

Sequeira Lab's PhD student Olga M. Azevedo was in Weihai, China, for a two week trip visiting the Shandong University to partake with students concepts about evolutionary biology, and assist them with practicing their research and critical analysis skills. This was part of the Master of Science from

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Join our Team as a Communications Assistant!

Sequeira Lab is excited to announce an exciting opportunity for a Communications Assistant to join our vibrant team!

Ana is thrilled to have been awarded the Fenner Medal from the Australian Academy of Science!

Our lab leader, Associate Professor Ana Sequeira, has just been awarded the prestigious Fenner Medal by the Australian Academy of Science for her outstanding contributions to marine biology! This award recognises distinguished research in Biology by researchers up to 10 years post-PhD, making it a t

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Our post-doc Hannah Calich helps discern fact from fiction: 'Jaws' discussed!

SequeiraLab post-doc Dr Hannah Calich had the opportunity to discuss the impact Jaws had on sharks and answer questions from the public at a Science.Art.Film film screening hosted by Australian National University (ANU) this month. This event was moderated by Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens from the Australi

SequeiraLab attended the 8th International Bio-Logging Science Conference (BLS8)

Five members of the Sequeira Lab are on their way to Tokyo, Japan, to take part at the 8th International Bio-Logging Science Symposium (BLS8). The BLS has a specific focus on advances in the field of telemetry and biologging, ranging from terrestrial to marine ecosystems.

Outings

A SequeiraLab outing to farewell our visitor Jorge Medina

The PhD student Jorge Medina is ending his visit to the Sequeira Lab. After 3 months of hard work on the development of machine learning techniques to better predict marine animal trajectories, Jorge will be back to Spain, where he will be finishing is PhD this year.

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Meet Olga – Sequeira Lab’s newest PhD student!

Olga M. Azevedo has successfully secured a PhD scholarship and has joined the Sequeira lab as a PhD student at the Australian National University (ANU) to work on movement patterns and trophic connections of key marine megafauna species in the Shark Bay World Heritage.

Jorge Medina visits Sequeira Lab to build an exciting new approach to study marine animal movement

Jorge Medina, a PhD student at the Spanish Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) has come for a three-month research stay at the Sequeira Lab, to focus on the development of machine learning techniques to better predict marine animal trajectories.

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What’s next for the second round of fisheries subsidies agreement negotiations at the upcoming WTO conference?

The Sequeira Lab leader, Assoc. Prof. Ana Sequeira, has contributed to a comment entitled “WTO must complete an ambitious fisheries subsidies Agreement” just published in the Nature Portfolio journal Ocean Sustainability. In this comment, Ana along with 36 other scientists urge global leaders to con

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How 3D movements of whale sharks are linked with the bio-physical environment

SequeiraLab's PhD student, Ben D'Antonio, celebrates the publication of his first PhD chapter! s) and the bio-physical environment off a coral reef" just published in the journal Movement Ecology. In this paper, Ben used an interdisciplinary approach to assess density, distribution and composition o

ANU

Sequeira Lab members presented at the ANU Research School of Biology’s biannual conference!

Every two years, the Research School of Biology (RSB) of the Australian National University (ANU) prepares a conference that brings together Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCRs) with students doing a High Degree by Research (HDR). And for the first time, Sequeira lab members Dr. Hannah Calich an

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Festive Greetings from the Sequeira Lab team!

Festive greetings from SequeiraLab

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Sequeira Lab writing retreat at the beautiful ANU Kioloa campus

Last month the Sequeira lab gathered in Canberra for a 4-day end-of-year retreat at the ANU Kioloa campus. The group included lab members from both the Australian Natural University (ANU) and The University of Western Australia (UWA)

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Opportunity for Postdoctoral Fellow @ SequeiraLab!

Join the Sequeira Group in Advancing Marine Megafauna Conservation! We are excited to announce a fantastic opportunity for a Postdoctoral Fellowship with us.

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Meet Nils - Sequeira Lab's newest PhD student!

Nils Kreuter has joined the Sequeira lab as a PhD student at the Australian National University (ANU) to work on acoustic tracking data from marine megafauna around Australia. His work will examine fine scale movement properties to investigate social, collective, or coordinated behaviour with a spec

Field trip

An animal tracking expedition at your fingertips

Over the last two years, the Sequeira Lab has been undertaking research expeditions as part of our Gathaagudu Animal Tracking (GAT) Project.

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Domestic PhD applications open at the Sequeira Lab at ANU!

Are you interested in learning about the marine environment and investigating marine megafauna movements? The Sequeira Lab has exciting new PhD opportunities available for domestic students! The Lab focuses on addressing specific questions of relevance for the conservation of marine species and the

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Celebrating our ladies in science for International Women's Day

The SequeiraLab is proud to host and work with so many amazing women in science!