SharkSeekers (Fung Fellowship Conservation + Technology)

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Published Feb 17, 2025

A team of Conservation + Technology Fellows address the following question with Shark Stewards (https://sharkstewards.org/): How might we better coalesce data on California shark sightings and other activity, in part, to create a rapidly shareable public response and education system that could be used to both increase shark data collection for scientific study and also help minimize the risk of shark encounters, thereby increasing public safety?

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About the Fellows
These 50 fellows are completing their third year at UC Berkeley and are part of the inaugural cohort in the Conservation + Tech track. They were selected for the fellowship as part of a competitive, campus-wide application program. They began the fellowship in August 2020, which has included participation in two semester-long courses and 5 design challenges, all in a virtual format.
The graduate student instructor (GSI) for this semester is David Kurz, a PhD candidate in Environmental Science. The lead instructor for this cohort is Aakash Desai, a designer and facilitator experienced in the environmental space.