“Our work ranges from pure scientific research to applied wildlife forensics,” explains Chapman, a geneticist with research expertise in molecular biology and telemetry tracking. “Over the past year one of our major initiatives was teaching shark fin ID workshops as a component of broader meet- ings designed to build support for listing five species of sharks under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). We attended the March 2013 CITES meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, where the voting took place. Our workshops there were filled with law enforcement officials, customs agents and CITES delegates from nearly every country that is a signatory to this agreement.”