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Talking White Shark Science with Dr. Sal Jorgensen!

3,087 views · Published 26 July 2018 · 19:17 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: Monterey Bay Aquarium · 2018 · Education

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There's lots going on in great white shark science land! We spoke with Dr. Sal Jorgensen this morning to learn more about his recent research with white sharks in the Monterey Bay and the White Shark Café!

Our apologies this wasn't public when it was livestreamed—the video was unlisted! 😞 In any case, here's the replay, and we look forward to more chats with Sal in the future! happy Shark Week!

For more info about our work with great white sharks, check out these videos:

Project White Shark: The Farallon Islands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpuTQzjfpB0

Project White Shark: Shark Fin-gerprints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-4b08-JnAU 

The Aquarium is promoting innovative study, awareness and conservation of white sharks. Through our work we can promote public understanding and protection of this ecologically important and threatened species.

Our research involves:

Juvenile White Shark Research: Juvenile "young of the year" white sharks are found each summer in the Southern California Bight and as bycatch in the fisheries of Mexico and California. Yet we don't know where they're born, who the parents are, where breeding occurs or how they join adult populations. We're studying their movement, habitats, diet, population size and how they're affected by environmental toxins.

Adult White Shark Research: We're learning how to protect adult white sharks from overfishing and the effects of bycatch by studying their movement, population size and foraging patterns.

White Shark Genetics: To conserve white sharks, we need to know more about the movement between our coastal white sharks and those of Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Genetic (DNA) studies provide clues about population structure, parentage and the origins of white shark products found in global fish markets.

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