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Selected Presentations & Appearances


Sharks and Communities: Insights from Honduras and Indonesia with marine scientists Gabriela Ochoa and Rafid Shidqi - Lowell Lecture Series · March 2025 Lecture New England Aquarium, New England Aquarium's Simons Theatre

The New England Aquarium’s Lowell Lecture series presents marine scientists Gabriela Ochoa and Rafid Shidqi to discuss their work protecting sharks in Honduras and Indonesia. Their work is supported in part by the Aquarium’s Marine Conservation Action Fund (MCAF), a small grants and fellowship program that provides support for community-based projects spearheaded by local conservation leaders in low- and middle-income countries worldwide.

Conservation of Pelagic Thresher Sharks (Alopias pelagicus) in the Banda Archipelago, Indonesia: Preliminary Investigation - North American Congress for Conservation Biology · June 2024 International Meeting or Conference University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
Interdisciplinary Approach to Conserve the Endangered Pelagic Thresher Shark · October 2023 Lecture National University Singapore, Singapore
Safeguarding Coasts and Communities in Southeast Asia · June 2023 Invited Talk Asia Philanthropy Circle, Singapore
Applying Telemetry Studies for Conservation of Pelagic Thresher Sharks · December 2022 Invited Talk Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Crash Course: Human Dimensions in Shark Conservation · December 2022 Invited Talk University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Conserving Thresher Shark in East Nusa Tenggara - SEA Morning Show · October 2022 Interview SEA News
Designing and Implementing Alternative Livelihoods for Thresher Shark-Dependent Communities in Alor Island, Indonesia · March 2022 International Meeting or Conference University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Aligning Incentives for Blue Economy and Biodiversity - 30th International Congress for Conservation Biology · December 2021 International Meeting or Conference University of Oxford, Society for Conservation Biology, Kigali, Rwanda
Strengthening Sustainability Programs and Curricula in Higher Education · February 2020 National Scientific Meeting National Academies of Science, Santa Cruz, California
Finding Solutions for Pelagic Thresher Shark (Alopias pelagicus) conservation in Alor Island, Indonesia - Student Conference on Conservation Science-New York · February 2020 International Meeting or Conference American Museum of Natural History, New York