I was really looking forward to visiting the long-tailed macaques in Ubud’s Monkey Forest for quite some time! I had been here a few years before, bringing home some beautiful shots at the time. Over […]
It started more than half a year ago in dark and cold northern Germany. We were sitting in our flat in Bremen and planning what to do after Amanda hands in her PhD. We found […]
Edit 2019: Fishact was formerly known by the name The Black Fish. Recently I spent two days with the NGO Fishact documenting their citizen inspector workshop in Hamburg. Besides the theoretical part of the workshop, […]
A recent paper by Andrea Haas, Tony Fedler and Edward Brooks assessed the financial value that the shark diving industry in the Bahamas creates and concluded that in 2014 about 113 million Dollars were added […]
It has been a while since I found the time to write a blog post and there also hasn’t been too much excitement happening. 2017 has so far been been mostly filled with sitting at […]
It’s almost been four weeks ago, that I was awarded the German Price for Science Photography (=Deutscher preis für Wissenschaftsfotografie”) for the Reportage Category in der Haus der Wissenschaft here in Bremen. It was a fantastic […]
Many of you will have heard about Leonardo’s new documentary Before the Flood and some of you might have even watched it already. It has been widely advertised and thanks to Leo and National Geographic […]
I have just come back from Bristol in England where the annual European Elasmobranch Association (short: EEA) Conference was held and I am extremely happy and honored that I was part of it! 160 delegates […]
It is official: I am a Master of Science! To be more precise: A Master of Tropical Marine Ecology Science! Alongside most of the ISATEC cohort from 2014, I have successfully completed the ISATEC Master […]
UPDATE: Good News!! All recommendations were adopted by CITES!! Silkies, threshers and devil rays are now listed on Appendix II ! t the moment representatives of 183 member parties are gathering in Johannesburg, South Africa, to […]
Tom Vierus is an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and marine biologist based in Suva, Fiji Islands. This blog is dedicated to his assignments and to sharing some behind-the-scenes footage.
