Amadi Afua Sefah-Twerefour won an award for best poster at her Discover UofSC session! Her poster examines rates of vessel strikes and fishing gear entanglement, which put the North Atlantic right whale population at serious risk of extinction. Amadi shows how these rates of human-caused mortalities change over seasons, over decades, and across the range of habitats that right whales utilize. Her poster also reviews the spatial coverage of right whale critical habitats, where protective policies are established to reduce right whale risk. Finally, she alludes to a new project that she is just launching to assess news coverage of right whale injuries and mortalities. This is such exciting work - great job Amadi!! Comments are closed.
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AuthorErin Meyer-Gutbrod is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. Her lab researches human impacts to marine ecosysems. Archives
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