Dr. Portnoy Shark Research

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – With the discovery of the Carolina hammerhead in 2013, a shark that is virtually indistinguishable from the scalloped hammerhead, scientists have realized that data used for the conservation and management of the two species may be inaccurate. Dr. David Portnoy, assistant professor of marine biology at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and marine biology Ph.D. student, Amanda Barker, have set out to help right this situation by gathering more data on scalloped and Carolina hammerheads.