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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

I analyse data for seabird conservation, with a focus on tracking data, plastics, invasive species, and seabird-fishery interactions. I manage the Seabird Tracking Database at www.seabirdtracking.org.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Conservation research mapping exposure to marine plastic pollution for 77 petrel species and modelling Tristan Albatross population dynamics relating to the Gough mouse eradiction attempt.

Lima, Peru

Assisting with a project with Grupo Aves Marinas (Universidad Cientifica del Sur) and University of Exeter involving combined deployments of GPS/Acceleration/Dive loggers with bird-borne video cameras on Gaunay cormorants. Analysing data and providing training in analysis of spatial and video data.

Penryn

NERC-funded PhD with Dr Stephen Votier and Dr Lucy Hawkes, along with Dr Peter Miller of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory. My project investigated the ecology and energetics underpinning the foraging behaviour of northern gannets (Morus bassanus), with a focus on scavenging from fisheries and sexual segregation. I used GPS loggers, bird-borne video cameras.

Saint Helena, Ascension And Tristan Da Cunha

I led a 5-week expedition to Ascension Island for the Ascension Island Government, which involved training and managing volunteers. We GPS-tracked breeding brown boobies to map their foraging areas and GPS/altitude-tracked Ascension frigatebirds to ground-truth foraging behaviour models. I wrote a report for the Ascension Island Government to inform marine.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

NERC GW4+DTP-funded placement with Ellie Owen, Linda Wilson and Mark Bolton at RSPB Conservation Science based in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative. I used a large kittiwake tracking database to develop a method to predict seabird foraging areas from information that could be observed from the colony.

RSPB Old Moor And RSPB Frampton Marsh

Habitat management, maintenance, hydrological monitoring, colour-ringed bird observation, camera trapping and surveys (BTO Wetland Bird Survey, habitat transects, playback surveys, roost counts).

York, United Kingdom

Working on a project led by Dr Robert Marchant on the distributions of Acacia species across East Africa and how they relate to the protected area network. This involved database management, data gathering, specimen handling and distribution modelling (using MaxEnt), as well as attending MSc lectures and practical sessions in Statistics and Quantitative.

Sheffield & Dunbar, UK; Tocha & Viana Do Castelo, Portugal

Assisting on three research projects. Firstly, investigating speciation in the rough periwinkle (Littorina saxatilis) with Sophie Webster (Supervised by Prof Roger Butlin) in the rocky intertidal zone, which involved marking out transects, recording the positions of rough periwinkles and tagging 1100 individuals for reciprocal translocation experiments..

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

Mbiolsci, Biology With Conservation And Biodiversity, Class 1

Master's Year Research project (Robert Freckleton): How the traits of British birds relate to past and predicted distribution change.