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Barbara Block Quotes

«[As part of the Science study, the researchers sought to understand why the salmon shark's heart continues to function when it is ice cold.] The shark heart slows down in the cold, just as our own heart would, ... But what sets it apart is where our heart would simply stop, the salmon shark keeps on ticking.»
Author: Barbara Block
«This is clearly a unique shark speciesthe warmest of all gill-breathers in the ocean.»
Author: Barbara Block
«They're capable of keeping their hearts beating at temperatures that would have long stopped a mammal's heart.»
Author: Barbara Block
«We tagged it, and it went out there, and the tag popped up. Then the shark came back, and we tagged it again.»
Author: Barbara Block
«I like to check on the position of the sharks with my coffee every morning,»
Author: Barbara Block
«We combined radio uplinking SPOTs that give us accurate positions and data-logging PATs that store information for the duration of the programmed mission. By using two types of tags, we're able to accumulate a larger dataset on the sharks' habitat and preferences with a greater accuracy than we've been able to do before.»
Author: Barbara Block
«Sometimes in winter the surface waters, which are less salty, were so cold that the sharks spent more time in warmer, saltier waters below. When I glimpsed the sharks' radio positions from these frigid seas, I often wondered what it would be like to overwinter in the wilds of an Alaska fjord chasing herring in constant darkness.»
Author: Barbara Block
«[As part of the Science study, the researchers sought to understand why the salmon shark's heart continues to function when it is ice cold.] The shark heart slows down in the cold, just as our own heart would, ... But what sets it apart is where our heart would simply stop, the salmon shark keeps on ticking.»
Author: Barbara Block
«This is clearly a unique shark species--the warmest of all gill-breathers in the ocean,»
Author: Barbara Block
«We all are in the Bay Area and Central Coast working together on behalf of white shark conservation.»
Author: Barbara Block

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