[SEMCO] CApe Cod White Shark Predation Study

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
August 25, 
2016 
Teresa Izzo
                                                                        508-896-3867 
ext. 137
                                                            tizzo at ccmnh.org

SHARK-TEMBER
at
The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents
  Cape Cod White Shark Predation Study
with
  Dr. Tom Burns

BREWSTER, MA ­ The Cape Cod Museum of Natural 
History presents Dr. Tom Burns Sunday, September 25, 2016 at 1pm.

  Dr. Tom Burns is the creator and project leader 
of the Cape Cod White Shark Predation Study. He 
has spent 38 years studying sharks through formal 
and informal coursework and leadership of grant 
projects in veterinary medicine.  He has been 
diving and photographing sharks for almost 25 
years and has experienced hundreds of hours of 
interactions with the most iconic shark 
species.  While his pursuit of shark encounters 
has taken him around the world, it is the sharks 
of New England that have become his focus.

In 2014, Dr. Burns developed the Cape Cod White 
Shark Predation Study to investigate his premise 
that white sharks hunt seals differently off Cape 
Cod, Massachusetts, than in other known areas of 
pinniped predation, targeting prey in much 
shallower environments than previously 
documented.  Until now, the North Atlantic white 
shark was considered extremely elusive and 
difficult to study.  Dr. Burns demonstrated, for 
the first time that the predation tactics of the 
North Atlantic white shark could be studied using 
spotter aircraft and decoy targets.  During the 
following season, Dr. Burns repetitively 
documented shallow water predation events, 
demonstrating that these white sharks hunt seals differently.

A graduate of the Tufts University School of 
Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Burns has been a 
practicing veterinarian at Veterinary Associates 
of Cape Cod in South Yarmouth Massachusetts, 
since 2000.  Prior to his veterinary studies, Dr. 
Burns attended Boston College, where he graduated 
Cum Laude in 1994.  After graduating from Boston 
College, Dr. Burns spent a year at the Harvard 
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and 
Children’s Hospital Pediatric Research Facility.

Free with Museum Admission

  For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.
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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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