Unlocking the secret lives of marine animals using shells and bones
We use geochemical fingerprints locked within the biominerals of marine animals (shells and bones) to understand how they move around, where they come from, and how the environment changes around them. We also analyse growth patterns in these biominerals to understand their life histories.
Reading the Biomineralized Book of Life
Here we summarise recent milestones and challenges that lie ahead in using otoliths for fisheries and ecosystem-based management.
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Introducing the Universal Marker Concept to Track a Greater Spectrum of Marine Life
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Select Publications
2022: Harnessing universal chemical markers to trace the provenance of marine animals
2022: Systematic evaluation of oxygen isotopes in cephalopod statoliths as thermal proxies
2021: Statolith chemistry: a new tool to understand the ecology and provenance of octopus
2020: Experimental support towards a metabolic proxy in fish using otolith carbon isotopes