UNE's James Sulikowski featured in premiere episode of “Shark Week”

James Sulikowski, Ph.D., professor of Marine Sciences at the University of New England, was featured in the premiere episode of “Shark Week 2016” on the Discovery Channel.

The episode, titled “Tiger Beach,” follows the journey of Sulikowski and research collaborator Neil Hammerschlag of the University of Miami as they travel to a region in the Bahamas where tiger sharks are known to congregate. Their team of researchers, including 2015 UNE Marine Sciences graduate Carolyn Wheeler, sets out to discover why so many tiger sharks gather there.

To study the sharks’ reproductive behavior, the team uses an ultrasound machine similar to the technology used on pregnant humans. It’s a technique refined by Sulikowski and Hammerschlag that allows researchers, for the first time in history, to test sharks for pregnancy without killing them first.

Watch a clip from the “Tiger Beach" episode. 

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