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Cooke lab PhD candidate Jake Brownscombe travelled to Strasbourg, France from Sept. 22-26 to attend the 5th Bio-logging Symposium, where he presented his research on foraging behaviour and energetics of tropical marine fish using accelerometer bio-loggers. This research fit well with the theme of the conference, as bio-logging applications are currently focused heavily on remotely quantifying foraging behaviours and energetics across a range of taxa, from fish to large marine mammals such as elephant seals. Bio-logging technologies are rapidly improving our ability to measure not only animal positions and behaviours, but also physiological states, which provides important insights into how animals make a living and cope with relevant stressors. Stay tuned for continued applications of bio-logging technology by the Cooke lab to study fish behaviour and physiology.