Chuck “Charles” Bangley, PhD

@dogfishwalker.bsky.social

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Marine ecologist, shark nerd, and extremely part-time musician. Working my way toward being a broken man on a Halifax pier. He/him/y’all.

A Jim Shore nativity scene infiltrated by Star Wars and Star Trek action figures and Warhammer 40,000 models. Highlights include an Imperial probe droid hovering with the angel, Tryanid Zoanthropes chilling with the three wise men, and Yoda and Dr. McCoy checking on baby Jesus.
The Amish Outlaws, a band dressed entirely in Amish garb, covering “Flagpole Sitta” by Harvey Danger.
Five longnose gar in an orange sorting basket.
TIE interceptor rendered by artist FractalSponge.
Absolutely massive round stingray from above, taken at the Blacktip Reef exhibit in the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
A cup of Dunkin’ coffee, the superior fast food coffee.
A Jim Shore nativity scene with Warhammer 40K miniatures added. Space Marines defend the manger while Tyranids swarm in from all sides.
Three bowls, each with a different style of cooked North Carolina shrimp. We’ve got shrimp scampi, Old Bay-steamed shrimp, and cilantro lime shrimp.
An emojikitchen mashup of the shark and vomit emojis, producing a vomiting shark.
Photo of my awesome cat Queequeg, an orange tabby with a white moustache, bib, and socks, sitting on top of a Marshall guitar amp.
A school of model spiny dogfish sharks in a diorama at the Nova Scotia Natural History Museum.
Photo of me wearing an Imperial TIE fighter pilot helmet with a black dress shirt, black slacks, black loafers and a red tie standing at one of the windows of the Halifax Convention Centre, with the cityscape of Halifax in the background. Going for real LinkedIn profile pic vibes here.
A house in Halifax with a giant 12-foot skeleton in front surrounded by a pack of normal-sized skeletons. The smaller skeletons are in various poses including climbing up the house walls and peeking out from the bushes and front porch.
The Maryland “I voted” sticker included with my mail-in ballot.
Purple aurora waves in the sky over a well-lit building, showing that the event was bright enough to see through the city light pollution.
A photo of an ROV surfacing during a practice drive in the Dalhousie Aquatron pool.
The skyline of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia as seen from the Halifax side of the harbor.
Giant lobster statue from Shediac, New Brunswick, with a few tourists between its claws.
A pile of skate egg cases found on a beach in Orkney, Scotland. All the large brown/black egg cases, which is almost all of them, are from the critically endangered flapper skate.
Late twilight at 4:30 pm in New Brunswick, Canada during the total solar eclipse. A small town riverfront with a street light automatically turned on by the darkness as the blocked sun with its bright outer ring looms above.
A solid 2-3 inches of snow that wasn’t there when I went to bed blanketing the neighborhood in Halifax.
A Jim Shore-style nativity scene with a variety of Star Wars action figures added to the scene.
A wooden and somewhat cartoonish-looking shark hanging from the ceiling of Wayfarer’s Ale Society’s taproom.
There are at least two winter flounder visible resting on the harbor bottom in this photo, possibly more.
Swirling patterns in the Atlantic Ocean that turned out to be visible from a lookout off the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Queequeg, an orange cat with a white nose and bib, sitting comfortably in a cardboard box.
Several different types of Narragansett beer (lager, lemonade shandy, citra pale ale) in my fridge.
A school of Atlantic mackerel visible from the surface on the Halifax waterfront.
Boats docked in the upper Bay of Fundy resting on the exposed mud at low tide.
A school of mackerel visible from the surface alongside a wharf on the Halifax waterfront.
A laptop screen that is clearly the only source of light in the entire apartment showing an open session of R coding for a movement behavior analysis. An open beer is barely visible in the glow.
An ROV piloted by Ocean Tech students in the Aquatron pool at Dalhousie reaches out with its manipulator arm to grab a shackle suspended from a buoy.
A small fiddler crab with its oversized claw raised toward the camera.
Photo of two newborn-sized spiny dogfish sharks in a bucket of water. One of them is upside down, showing a small opening between its pectoral fins where it’s just finishing absorbing the yolk sac it fed on during development.
A single fiddler crab showing its oversized right claw.
A school of American shad swimming in a makeshift net pen in preparation for being tagged as part of a tracking study on fish migrations in the upper Bay of Fundy.
View from a roof deck of a massive smoke cloud originating from Tantallon, a town about an hour’s drive west of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The cloud is blocking the sun and causing it to take on an ominous red color.
Figure from Wilga and Motta (1998) showing sequential still photos of the stages of spiny dogfish biting, swallowing, and head-shaking feeding behaviors.
A spiny dogfish in a circular tank biting down on an Atlantic menhaden being fed to it as part of a study on their feeding rate.
Photo of a toilet, an indoor one to be specific, laying on its side on the curb across the street.
Large construction ships in Halifax Harbour, one of which has a massive crane onboard.