A few days ago I finished my last project: a short film about the My Fiji Shark Initiative by Beqa Adventure Divers (BAD) with support from the United Nations Development Program Office (UNDP Pacific) here […]
I feel like I begin almost every single blog post with those words, but it’s been a while since I last created an article for my blog. I was determined to write a 2018-wrap-up article […]
While sharks are fished virtually in every coastal state of the world catch statistics are usually poorly documented, completely lacking or incomplete. That is true for large-scale commercial fishing fleets, artisanal fishers (small-scale commercial) and […]
I have just come back from Bristol in England where the annual European Elasmobranch Association (short: EEA) Conference was held and I am extremely happy and honored that I was part of it! 160 delegates […]
It is official: I am a Master of Science! To be more precise: A Master of Tropical Marine Ecology Science! Alongside most of the ISATEC cohort from 2014, I have successfully completed the ISATEC Master […]
I am back in my everyday routine in Germany: I wake up, have my morning coffee(s) and then head to the ZMT, where I spend the day in the laboratory. By now, I have finished all […]
A little more than three weeks ago I came back to my home country Germany after spending almost seven months on the Fiji-Islands, where I conducted my master thesis fieldwork concentrated in a potential shark nursery […]
After another incredible dive yesterday with Mike and his team from Beqa Adventure Divers watching Fiji`s enormous Bull Sharks, I had the pleasure to sit down with a couple of other shark researchers and conservationists. One of […]
For the last few weeks I have been busy organizing my project on scalloped hammerhead shark nurseries here in Fiji. Maybe quite normal for field work I‘ve been facing several challenges that were sometimes not easy […]
Tom Vierus is an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and marine biologist based in Suva, Fiji Islands. This blog is dedicated to his assignments and to sharing some behind-the-scenes footage.
