The Semmens Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

08/30/2026

Sharks. 🦈

07/29/2026

04/02/2026

Lab friends -- our work on shark and ray conservation is one of the featured campaigns for UCSD's Triton Giving Day. If you love sharks/rays and citizen science, consider supporting! -- REEF Reef Environmental Education Foundation

01/29/2026

It’s that time of year again…

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from (most of) the Semmens Lab peeps!

11/01/2025

Max “maximum effort” Titcomb strikes again! I’m not saying our lab has the best students in all of academia, I’m just saying no lab has better students in all of academia. Let’s gooooooo!

10/04/2025

Tabling at the Walter Munk Foundation Day event!

08/08/2025

Let’s goooooo!

When “All the Sharks” premiered on Netflix this summer, Brendan Talwar, a postdoctoral scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, emerged as a local fan favorite.

06/27/2025

Our postdoc, Dr. Brendan Talwar, is a contestant on the new Netflix reality show All The Sharks, debuting July 4! Follow along as he leverages our SHARKY KNOWHOW (tm) to his team’s advantage. Let’s gooooo! Scripps Institution of Oceanography REEF Reef Environmental Education Foundation

A first of its kind competition series where four teams of shark FINatics travel the world trying to find and photograph every shark imaginable in hopes of c...