Dr. Michelle Shero

Excited for this one hot off the press (& while we happen to be at #SMM2022)! Iron and dive capacity as a novel cost of reproduction in a marine mammal. Today at @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…. @WHOI @NSF (NMFS 17411)

🦭Antarctic Weddell seals may strategically time their most extreme dives, minimizing surface time and maximizing foraging time during daylight hours. @michellershero @WHOI @DanielPCosta2 nature.com/articles/s4200…

New paper out today 😊 Weddell seals offset their most extreme dives from mid-day, so they can spend less time recuperating and more time diving during prime foraging conditions. whoi.edu/press-room/new…

🦭How does iron impact seal pup survival? #WHOI biologist @michellershero + partners spent much of the winter investigating this question on a remote barrier island off #NovaScotia, supervised by a band of feral horses. Read all about it: go.whoi.edu/sealsonsable

⁉️🦭🗺️ #InternationalSealDay Trivia: How far can a gray seal pup travel on its own in a month? 📲 Find out– and see more awesome pics of seals, wild horses, and field work from @michelleshero: go.whoi.edu/gray-seals 📸 taken under permits DFO 23-28A and NMFS 25794 © #WHOI

🦭🐴 What do you get when you cross gray seal pups + wild horses? An amazing photograph, for one! But for #WHOI marine biologist @michellershero, it’s just what happens when she collaborates with @FishOceansCAN on #SableIsland, NS! #NSFfunded with @NSF @TexasTech @UA_System

The remotely-operated vehicle #ROVJason was just beginning its descent to the #WestMataVolcano, off Samoa when the volcano exploded! Jason dives have yielded no shortage of breathtaking adventure stories– check out 3 of the most memorable: go.whoi.edu/jason-stories #NSFfunded

A great example showing why all these Antarctic science projects are so important! These seals helped map the local bathymetry --- critical to knowing how water masses will interact with warming ice shelves too.

@TomaDesvignes @Varsani_lab @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience Thank you Thomas. I hope you all fared better than we did. We'll be rooting for all our friends and colleagues who make it down this year, to get everything they can in the face of all the squeezes!

Thank you @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience for telling our story. Antarctic science is more important than ever in today's changing world. We just feel 'gutted' by this huge loss. science.org/content/articl…

@tjy511 @NSF Thank you TJ. I hope you are doing well getting set up at St Andrew’s!

Thank you @michellershero for putting the spotlight how critical it is for USAP and @NSF to completely overhaul how they run Antarctic research. I’m so sorry that you’re caught up in this year’s mess.

@RobHarcourt @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience Exactly! I was very disheartened to hear the news about the Australian program. I hope the world isn’t content to sit by and watch Antarctica simply melt away —- you would think all the countries would be stepping up!, not backing away

@michellershero @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience Very distressing @michellershero especially as it coincides with cuts at Scott Base due to the new base build & the sudden cut in funding for Australia’s Antarctic Research program- all as we face the lowest winter ice extent on record making science even more imperative

The U.S. Antarctic research program is in trouble, as canceled field seasons imperil data sets and demoralize researchers. #LongReads scim.ag/46b

Woohoo! 🙌 Go Macquarie seal team!

@LuisHuckstadt Given the post-COVID era logistics down there I think four years sounds fantastic 😂😂😂

@LuisHuckstadt Up to 6 - woohoo! 🙌

@clive_mcmahon @IMOS_AUS @AntarcticSciAus @SydneyMarine @GOOSocean @ani_bos @AusAntarctic @RobHarcourt @DavoBGreen @drfabulous1 Way cool!!

8 of the 21 elephant seals equipped with fCTD-SRDL are returning CTD & fluorescence profiles from the Southern Ocean. @IMOS_AUS, @AntarcticSciAus, @SydneyMarine provide information to @GOOSocean & @ani_bos. Thanks @AusAntarctic, Seal Team @RobHarcourt, @DavoBGreen & @drfabulous1

🦭 Cuteness alert! 🦭⁠ ⁠ A #WHOI-led study found that nursing Weddell seals provide so much iron to their pups that they have to limit diving & eating. Sound familiar, moms?⁠ ⁠ Learn more: go.whoi.edu/weddell-seals ⁠ 📸 @michelleshero NMFS permit 17411-03⁠ ⁠ #NSFfunded

@LuisHuckstadt @ExeterMarine @UniExeCEC @uncwtiftlab @UNCWilmington @NSF @DanielPCosta2 @ucsc does that mean you found crabbies already?!

@Zachkess13 @CincinnatiZoo @WHOI Close! @caroline_rzu took that picture with Fiona 😊

.@WHOI & Cincinnati Zoo scientists are finding new ways to study heart rate & respiration in wild animals. Baseline data collected in controlled settings offers a glimpse into how researchers might be able to use the technique to study animals in the wild ow.ly/kEa050NveQz