I started my career off on tropical Chrstimas Island (Master thesis), followed by a detour to the Falkland Islands (PhD) and Antarctica (post-doc), and have now finally landed in the North Atlantic. Boobies, tropicbirds, penguins and petrels as study species have thus been shifted out with auks, gulls, fulmars and shags. My current work is focused on applied seabird research, mostly on spatial overlap between human interests and seabirds, e.g. offshore oil, gas and wind development, kelp harvesting in the coastal zone, but also plastics in seabirds. During spring and summer, I am busy doing fieldwork on Sklinna, central Norway as part of the SEAPOP pogramme.

I have been working in sea bird research in a few different projects. For example: I have been modelling sea bird distribution and abundance for a research institute and a consultancy, my PhD was on geomagnetic bird navigation, and I have been involved in field work on sea birds including logger deployment, ringing etc.

I recently graduated from a master's program at Memorial University of Newfoundland where I studied population structure and philopatry in Atlantic Puffins using RAD Sequencing techniques, a project that I developed from the ground up. Before that I worked with a variety of other seabirds over the course of my 10+ year career, including Common Murre and Caspian Terns.

Katja loves all things animal communication, but she did become somewhat of a puffin biologist during her master's degree. She earned her M.Sc. from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2023, where she explored the potential adaptive function of the Atlantic puffin's colorful bill. Even though she might be studying a little thing called a hummingbird now for her PhD at Princeton University, she remains fascinated by the amazing behavioral ecology of seabirds and hopes to stay connected to the wonderfully tight-knit seabird community.

I am a professor studying avian responses to habitat and climate change. One aspect of my research looks at individual movements of lesser black-backed gulls, as they carry out their lifecycle. All ages (even first-winter birds) embark on long-distance exploration, more than the research community has previously appreciated, and this exploration provides a mechanism for them to alter their ranges as habitat or climate changes.

Regina has been with Environment and Climate Change Canada since 2010 providing extensive support and technical expertise to projects on seabirds, landbirds, shorebirds, waterfowl, and species at risk - from murres (turrs) to eiders, geese to snow buntings. Regina has worked tirelessly to build strong relationships with Indigenous communities in Labrador, has been heavily involved in supporting Indigenous partners in delivering Indigenous-led research projects related to migratory birds.

I research social behaviour and individual recognition of Atlantic puffins.

I study prospecting behaviour in pre-breeding Leach's storm-petrels. I started studying Leach's storm-petrels on Great Duck Island in Maine, where my undergraduate thesis focused on population monitoring and census methods. I am now a graduate student at Memorial University of Newfoundland in the Cognitive and Behavioural Ecology program, where I am supervised by Dr. David Wilson. I am interested in why and how Leach's storm-petrels prospect at colony sites prior to breeding and in how population monitoring and conservation tactics can account for pre-breeding birds. My fieldwork will involve a combination of radio telemetry, acoustic monitoring, and mist-netting.

Joanne is a seabird ecologist who specialises in using tracking data to understand behaviours and identify potential conservation threats. After completing her doctorate on the foraging and migratory behaviours of arctic terns and Eurasian oystercatchers at the University of Exeter, she joined the BirdLife Marine Science Team. There Joanne has been using seabird tracking data from across the world to identify marine flyways to inform ocean basin scale conservation.

I work on a range of offshore wind focused seabird tracking projects with the aim of understanding the potential impacts of these developments on UK seabird populations. When I'm not report writing, or conducting stats, I'm fortunate to get to spend my time conducting fieldwork, whether that be tracking tiny European storm petrels or the much (much) larger Northern gannet! I'm also very active in the research of Pterodroma petrels and other seabirds on Round Island (Mauritius), and the wider Indian Ocean, following the completion of my PhD.

My work aims to provide a better understanding of the potential impacts of renewable energy developments on seabird populations within the UK, mainly in Scotland, and to identify effective strategies for mitigating these effects. While my current role involves primarily office-based work, I hope to get back into the action soon!

I am a PhD Candidate and the Lab Coordinator for the Montevecchi Lab at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Through my PhD research, I study consistency of behaviour across spatial and temporal scales and its applicability to conservation, specifically focusing on measures of animal personality and consistency of space use. My research is investigating whether Leach's Storm-Petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous) that exhibit consistent behaviour also experience consistent exposure to risks. I love using remote monitoring techniques (like PIT/RFID systems, GPS and GLS tags) to investigate consistency of behaviour and to answer questions about the life history of cryptic seabirds.