Annie M. Lindsay

Sep 4, 2024 | blog.nature.org | Eleanor Salisbury |Justine E Hausheer |Lauren Pharr |Annie M. Lindsay

This story is part of a series designed to introduce the perspectives of alumni from the National Geographic Society and The Nature Conservancy’s global youth externship program. Each guest author is an emerging leader in conservation and storytelling. The morning air feels cold along the river’s edge as I watch the fish in front of me jump for insects. Whilst I wait in my spot amongst willows and nettles, a flash of blue makes me gasp.

May 26, 2024 | blog.nature.org | Justine E Hausheer |Lauren Pharr |Annie M. Lindsay |Christopher Moorman

What can dive deeper than a submarine, swims across entire oceans, is covered in polka-dots, and has a mouth straight out of a horror movie? It sounds like the setup for a bad joke, but leatherback sea turtles are all of these things and more. Leatherbacks are perhaps best known for their massive size and unusual carapace. But there’s more to these creatures than you might realize. Read on to learn more about the world’s largest turtle.

Dec 3, 2023 | blog.nature.org | Christine Peterson |Justine E Hausheer |Lauren Pharr |Annie M. Lindsay

Tiger sharks equipped with 360-degree cameras and GPS devices in the Bahamas Banks helped researchers document the largest seagrass ecosystem in the world. In the Arctic, elephant seals with weather-monitoring boxes glued to their outer fur and skin give reports to satellites to help the World Meteorological Organization create climate models. Backpacks secured to sea turtles in the Indian Ocean provide researchers with information that helps explain and predict ocean temperatures and currents.

Sep 15, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jennifer Boyd |Annie M. Lindsay |Jill Anderson |Carol Baskauf

1 INTRODUCTION Biodiversity is at risk worldwide due to dramatic rates of environmental change, often as a result of anthropogenic activities (Knapp et al., 2021; Malhi et al., 2020). Rare species are especially susceptible to extinction in the face of such change (Mouillot et al., 2013), and as such, rare species often drive declines in the biodiversity of communities and systems (Dee et al., 2019).