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OCS 2026
Travel Awards

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Still riding the high of our largest ever 2025 20th Anniversary Conference, the OCS has chosen to forego a domestic conference for 2026. Instead, travel funding has been awarded to 12 successful applicants to attend Sharks International 2026 in Colombo, Sri Lanka between 4–8 May 2026.

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Winners of the OCS 2026 Travel Award are:

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Applicants are expected to present a talk or poster at the meeting. Successful applicants must acknowledge the OCS for providing funding to support their travel.​​

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Title
Name
Project Title
ECR
Emily Lester
Predators and people: quantifying how reef shark conservation sustains predatory roles and livelihoods
ECR
Jaelen Myers
Dietary habits of rays in an intertidal nursery: implications for species-specific dietary preferences, habitat use, and functional roles
Hons
Christina Ekanayake
Evaluating the Robustness of a Length-based Bayesian Biomass Model to Determine the Stock Status of Mobula mobular in Sri Lanka
PhD
Bradley Hayman
Measuring ecological resilience in marine predators through multidimensional trophic niche analysis
PhD
Eva Ramey
Movement Patterns and Habitat Use of Threatened Coastal Sharks in New Zealand’s Remote Fiords
PhD
Hilary Lewis
Growing uncertainty in age estimation and prospects for elemental and isotopic characterisation for validation
PhD
Jessica Blakeway
Mapping Walking Sharks: Using genetic methods to provide distribution insights for site-associated species in Papua New Guinea
PhD
Joel Gayford
Size matters: Allometric trends in the swimming kinematics of wild blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) in Mo’orea, French Polynesia
PhD
Louise Hosking
The chemistry of time: refining shark ageing through sclerochronology
PhD
Madison Baker
Hormones in Hard Parts: Unlocking Shark Reproductive Histories from Vertebrae
PhD
Melina Keane
Bridging conservation and human-wildlife coexistence: movement ecology of large sharks in coastal waters
PhD
Teah Burke
The Impact of Fisheries on Deep-Sea Shark Trophodynamics

© 2026 Oceania Chondrichthyan Society

Oceania Chondrichthyan Society acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and seas throughout Oceania and the wider Indo-Pacific region in which our society and its members live and work. We pay our respects to the First Nations peoples whose deep and enduring connections to Land, Sea, and Sky Country have guided sustainable practices and protected ecosystems for thousands of years. We honour their knowledge systems and continued leadership in ocean and coastal stewardship. We recognise that lands were never ceded and extend our respect to Elders past and present, and to the next generation of Indigenous leaders in marine sciences.

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