Sarah E. Gutowsky Email & Phone Number

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Department Of Biology, Dalhousie

Deliver a spring Ornithology field course over an intensive 2-week duration. Spend 8 days ‘in the field’ at a remote research station camping with 15 students, taking advantage of every opportunity to teach bird identification skills (ID by both sight and sound), including dawn chorus surveys on foot in coastal, forest and bog habitats, river surveys by canoe, chimney swift roost counts at dusk, owling under darkness. Guide students in designing and implementing field projects.Developed and deliver "Biologging in Ecology" (BIOL/MARI4323) - a cross-listed Biology/Marine Biology course at the fourth year undergraduate level.

Antarctica

West Antarctic Peninsula, Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha, St Helena, Ascension Island

Nunavut, Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland, Antarctica

Halifax, Canada Area

Since 2020, I have been a Mitacs Accelerate Postdoctoral Researcher in partnership with Ducks Unlimited Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Acadia University. I am leading a research program addressing shifts in sea duck populations in Atlantic Canada over the past 50 years. I am using various data sources from federal and provincial government monitoring, non-governmental organizations (e.g., Ducks Unlimited Canada, Birds Canada), and citizen science programs (e.g., Christmas Bird Count) to examine changes in bird abundance and distribution in marine regions through time, and explore potential causal factors for trends or redistribution. The results will help direct future, multi-stakeholder marine policy and long-term planning for waterbird harvest, management and conservation in Atlantic Canada.From 2018-2020, I held a W. Garfield Weston Postdoctoral Fellowship award from the Canadian Northern Studies Trust under the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies, and I proudly call myself an alumni Weston Family Northern Scientist. My research investigated multi-scale climactic factors influencing breeding success of avifauna throughout the Canadian Arctic. I have been extremely fortunate to carry out my postdoctoral work under Dr. Mark Mallory at Acadia University.

Russian Far East (Kuril Islands, Sea of Okhotsk, Kamchatka, Chukotka, Wrangel Island), New Zealand Sub-antarctic Islands (Snares, Auckland Island, Campbel Island, Macquarie Island), Ross Sea

Nw Passage, Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland, Antarctica

Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge, Maine

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario

Desolation Sound, British Columbia

Long Point, Ontario

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology

Activities and Societies: Biology Organization of Graduate StudentsMy dissertation focused on the movement ecology of pelagic seabirds..

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Biology (Honours)

Activities and Societies: President, Environmental Sciences Student ExecutiveEnvironmental Sciences, Biology