Hey you probably don’t remember our brief email exchange in like 2019, but it was genuinely helpful and I still think about your advice. I’m really sorry for your loss. Amongst… *gestures* everything, I hope you’re doing ok.

🙏Particular thanks to anchor author Daniel Dunn @marinebiogeo.bsky.social for his leadership and unwavering support, both on this work and in general. Thanks also to the Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative @gobisecretariat.bsky.social for supporting this work.

I want to acknowledge and thank folks who have worked on this project for much longer than I have, including coauthors Dina Nisthar, Ei Fujioka, Corrie Curtice, Sarah DeLand, Ben Donnelly, Autumn-Lynn Harrison, Ellie Heywood, Connie Kot, Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, Ph.D., Sarah Poulin, and Pat Halpin.

👀 The gaps in the data we found are as informative as the the data themselves – checking our biases, filling in strategic gaps, and incorporating more recent work into the system will all help us bring the picture into even clearer focus.

IMO the most interesting work is yet to come, as we refine and update networks for individual species and systems (more soon, led by some of our group's phenomenal PhD candidates!) and, importantly, as we leverage this information to inform migratory species conservation in global policy arenas.

🔗 Here we show a preliminary estimate of the (measured!) connectivity between key sites for over 100 marine migratory megavertebrates. 🦈 🐋 🐟 🐢 🐧