Enrico Gennari

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Enrico Gennari
Born (1977-01-21) 21 January 1977 (age 45)
Rome, Italy
OccupationMarine biologist
WebsiteEnrico Gennari

Enrico Gennari (born 21 January 1977) is an Italian marine biologist who specialises in the study of the great white shark.

Early life and education[]

Gennari was born in Rome in 1977. He has said that he was intending to study the great white shark from the age of six.

He received a master's degree in Natural Science from the Sapienza University of Rome in February 2004, magna cum laude. His degree thesis was on a vertebral ageing study of Etmopterus spinax, a bottom-dwelling shark typical of the Mediterranean Sea, creating a new technique to "read" very difficult vertebra for the first time.

Gennari took a year break in Ustica, near Sicily, working as a scuba diving instructor, then worked with Ryan Johnson for nine months in 2005, studying the behaviour of white sharks including their night time predatory behaviour. In 2005 they conducted the longest ever manual track of a single white shark, for 103 hours.

Gennari then enrolled at Rhodes University for his PhD study on the thermo physio-ecology of white sharks, under the supervision of Paul Cowley from SAIAB and Ryan Johnson. Meanwhile he and three other marine researchers (Johnson, Stephen Swanson and Toby Keswick) established a private marine research institute focused on marine apex predators, called the . Gennari is currently researching his PhD in Mossel Bay, investigating the endothermic ability of the great white shark to raise the temperature of parts of its body above the external water temperature.

In 2008 Gennari, as a member of Oceans Research, initiated a great white shark research internship program allowing students from around the world to gain practical research skills.

Television appearances[]

Scientific articles[]

  • Johnson, R., Bester, M.N., Dudley, S.F.J., Oosthuizen, W.H., Meÿer, M.A., Hancke, S. & Gennari, E. (2009) Coastal swimming patterns of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at Mossel Bay, South Africa. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 85(3):189-200[1]
  • Gubili, C., Johnson, R., Gennari, E., Oosthuizen, w.H., Kotze, P.G.H., Meÿer, M.A., Sims, D.W., Jones, C.S. & Noble, L.R. (2009) Concordance of genetic and fin photo identification in the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of Mossel Bay, South Africa. Marine Biology Published on-line first.[2]
  • Gennari E. and Scacco U., 2007. First age and growth estimates in the deep water shark, Etmopterus spinax (Linnaeus, 1758), by deep coned vertebral analysis. Marine Biology 152 (5): 1207-1214
  • Kock A., Johnson R.L., Bester M.N., Compagno L., Cliff G., Dudley S., Gennari E., Griffiths C.L., Kotze D., Laroche K., Meyer M.A., Oosthuizen W.H. and Swanson S., 2006. White shark abundance: not a causative factor in numbers of shark bite incidents. In: Finding a balance: white shark conservation and recreational safety in the Inshore waters of Cape Town, South Africa. D.C. Nel and T.P. Peschak Eds. WWF South Africa Report Series - 2006/Marine/001.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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