Warrior Woman: Dr Chantel Elston

In another incredible win for women dominating the field of science, Dr Chantel Elston has joined the South African Association for Marine Biological Research (SAAMBR), where she will be coordinating its long-standing ORI Cooperative Fish Tagging Project (ORI-CFTP). She chats to Leigh-Anne Williams about her incredible career, which is primarily in research where completed her PhD and a postdoctoral fellowship at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. She possesses a deep fascination with the overlooked and misunderstood species of rays and has dedicated much of her academic career to studying their ecology. The SAAMBR said that it continues to rely on the greater tagging community (without which the project simply wouldn’t exist) to contribute to its ongoing research and monitoring of fish along the South African coastline.