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Taylor Chapple is a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Louis Botsford at the University of California, Davis and a member of the white shark tagging team. Taylor first became interested in marine fisheries while designing experimental fishing gear for commercial trawlers to limit incidental catch. After receiving his degree in marine biology from Boston University, he worked in commercial fisheries throughout the US and became interested in studying sharks while working with the Shark Population Assessment Group
Taylor became involved with TOPP through Dr. Peter Klimley at the Biotelemetry lab at UC Davis. He is now working with TOPP to develop new techniques to determine the status of low data fisheries and, specifically, the great white shark. Taylor is using photo-identification techniques in a mark-recapture framework to determine a first ever population estimate of white sharks off California.
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