I am interested in learning how to use science to protect wildlife and wild spaces on our planet. I have been working on a couple papers; these figures are from one I just submitted to Ecological Applications. Here I used some muscle and tissue samples from sharks, fish, and corals at two different reefs, one fished, and one unfished. I analyzed them for their stable isotope values. Stable isotopes can tell you a bit about where an animal eats and how it eats it, and also how the entire food web is structured. I am hoping to discover how fishing may result in unseeable changes to the functioning of an ecosystem. I hope this will encourage people to reduce or limit fishing in protected areas!  I am also working on some other projects including one looking at how urchin communities may help protect reefs from overfishing – I am still just analyzing data from that project but some pictures from my field work are below.