Shark Spy

Rob Lewis - Project Coordinator
Rob Lewis has a masters in marine Science from the University of Otago, and is based at the New Zealand Marine Studies Centre in Dunedin. As the coordinator of the shark spy project he encourages Kiwis around the country to report sightings of sharks, aiming to combine local evidence with marine science to find out more about these interesting creatures. Rob believes understanding different species of sharks is key to understanding the ongoing health of local ecosystems, especially in this time of changing oceans.

Sally Carson - Principle Investigator
Sally Carson is the Director of the New Zealand Marine Studies Centre (Department of Marine Science, University of Otago) where school students and the wider community engage with real science and marine conservation.She has been the driver behind a number of marine education initiatives including but not limited to Marine Metre Squared (https://www.mm2.net.nz/), and the Shark Spy project. Sally has also written numerous educational resources, including a series of identification guides to the plants and animals found on NZ’s seashore and is the main author of the 'Collins Field Guide to the New Zealand Seashore'.