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Sequeira Lab 2024 highlights: celebrating a year of growth, achievements, and adventure!

As we look back at the year just finishing, we are thrilled to share some of the highlights and achievements of the Lab! Field trips are always at the top of the highlights, and we were lucky to have three of them this year! Each trip focused on the capture and satellite tagging of different species

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Celebrating the Gathaagudu Animal Tracking Project

The Sequeira Lab hosted a sundowner event to celebrate the Gathaagudu Animal Tracking Project.

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Ana attends the 2024 Pew Marine Fellows annual meeting in Bali, Indonesia

Assoc Prof Ana Sequeira attended the Pew Fellows annual meeting in Bali, gaining insights, networking, and collaboration opportunities in marine conservation.

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PhD Candidate Michelle VanCompernolle visits Canberra

PhD Candidate Michelle VanCompernolle visited the Sequeira Lab in Canberra for collaboration and team bonding!

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Ana presents at the ANU College of Science’s STEMM Lecture Series

Sequeira Lab lead Ana was invited to give a guest lecture at the ANU College of Science's STEMM Lecture Series.

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Sequeira lab social: a team outing to solve puzzles outside of the lab!

The Sequeira Lab team takes on a new challenge: escape rooms!

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A productive 3-month research visit in Germany by our PhD student Nils Kreuter

PhD student Nils Kreuter has just returned from his three-month visit to the Helmholtz Information and Data Science Academy in Germany!

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PhD candidate Ben D'Antonio has submitted his thesis and presented his PhD completion seminar!

Sequeira Lab is excited to share that PhD candidate Ben D'Antonio has just submitted his thesis and presented his PhD completion seminar!

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The Sequeira Lab returns from another successful turtle tagging trip to Gathaagudu (Shark Bay), Western Australia!

Sequeira Lab team members have returned from a successful field trip to satellite tag green and loggerhead turtles in Gathaagudu (Shark Bay), Western Australia!

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Introducing Priscilla - Sequeira Lab's first Communications Assistant!

Sequeira Lab is excited to welcome Priscilla Seah to our lab at the Australian National University as a Communications Assistant.

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Welcoming Dahlia, a new postdoctoral fellow with the MegaMove project!

We are excited to welcome Dr Dahlia Foo to our lab at the Australian National University as a postdoctoral researcher. Dahlia brings a unique mix of skills in marine science and software development.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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