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The Bimini Biological Field Station (BBFS) offers a non-technical ‘Research Experience’ into the day to day work of a world-renowned shark research facility. These research experiences feature lectures on research, daily field trips, and personal encounters with actively feeding, free-swimming sharks. Each experience will vary and is dependent on the research schedule and weather at the time.
The Sharklab carries out cutting edge shark research on various research disciplines such as behaviour, ecology, life history, bioenergetics, and novel technologies. The lab works on a number of different species that can be found throughout the Bimini Islands, such as lemon (Negaprion brevirostris), tiger (Galeocerdo cuvier), bull (Carcharhinus leucas), great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran), nurse (Ginglymostoma cirratum), blacktip (Carcharhinus limbatus) and Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi).
Since opening in 1990 BBFS has hosted successful graduate and undergraduate courses in shark and marine biology for Universities from Canada (i.e. New Brunswick) and the US (i.e. Coastal Carolina). We thus have vast experience in providing a unique educational insight into the world of shark research making it more accessible and relevant than ever before.
Research experiences are open to absolutely anyone. If you have an interest in marine or shark biology then this would provide the perfect opportunity encounter first hand the world of scientific research.
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