Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Siders Lab
Led by Zachary Siders · Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences
What we study
The Siders Lab studies wildlife and fisheries using data analysis, Bayesian statistics, and modeling. They track turtle movements, growth patterns, and population trends in protected ecosystems.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Marine organisms
- Wild animals
- Coding required
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Long-Term Trends in Population Dynamics of the Florida Softshell Turtle
Tracking growth patterns of male and female Florida Softshell Turtles over time.
Preliminary assessment of movements and habitat use of the Tabasco Mud Turtle
Tracks where Tabasco mud turtles move and what habitat they use in Belize, to understand how to protect them.
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Comparing Body Shapes of Four Hermaphroditic Families of Fish
Researchers compared the body shapes of 80 fish species from four families, including both hermaphroditic and non‑hermaphroditic species. They used image analysis and statistical methods to see if hermaphroditic fish have similar shapes to each other and to other fish.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 479
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Recent papers, explained
- Bright nights and dynamic seascape features drive leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) interactions in an Australian pelagic longline fishery
2026 · Progress In Oceanography
Finds that bright nights and ocean currents drive leatherback turtle interactions in Australian longline fisheries.
- Observer coverage and interaction rates determine the choice between design‐based and machine learning bycatch estimators for rare species
2026 · Conservation Biology
Compares two methods to estimate rare species bycatch in Hawaiian longline fisheries.
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- Update to NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC-101: Incorporating uncertainty in maturation and recent fishery takes into the population-level impacts of western Pacific leatherback sea turtles
2026 · NOAA Institutional Repository
Updates sea turtle population estimates for Hawaiian deep-set longline fisheries.
- Retrospective analysis identifies largely effective seabird mitigation strategies with some opportunities for improvement
2026 · Fisheries Research
Tests whether seabird mitigation measures work in Hawaiian longline fisheries.
- Fertilizer enhances production more than mussels in a deteriorating salt marsh
2026 · Journal of Applied Ecology
Shows how fertilizer affects salt marsh plants and mussels in deteriorating ecosystems.
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