Sabir Bin Muzaffar B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc., Ph.D. United Arab Emirates University Dr. Sabir Bin Muzaffar is a wildlife ecologist and professor at United Arab Emirates University with broad interests in spatial distribution, movement, impact of parasites and pathogens, community structure, community assembly patterns and conservation. Dr. Muzaffar is collaborating with us to tag Socotra Cormorants in the Arabian Gulf. |
Alexa Foster B.Sc., M.Sc. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Alexa Foster is a PhD student at KAUST studying seabirds in the Arabian Peninsula. Her interests include movement ecology, island biodiversity, population dynamics and conservation management. Alexa is collaborating with us to tag Socotra Cormorants in the Arabian Sea and Arabian Gulf. |
Carlos Zavalaga
B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD Director and main researcher Marine Ecosystems Research Unit, Seabird Group Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru Dr. Carlos Zavalaga is a seabird ecologist and researcher at Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú with a strong interest in biologging, seabird-fishery interactions, invasive species on islands, marine pollution and conservation. Dr. Zavalaga is collaborating with us to tag Guanay Cormorants in central and northern Peru. |
Thomas Cansee
B.Sc., M.Sc. Deakin University/Ghent University Thomas Cansse is a PhD student at Deakin University and Ghent University studying Black-faced cormorants breeding on Notch Island, Australia. His interests include biologging, movement ecology and foraging behaviour. Thomas is collaborating with us to tag Black-faced cormorants in Southeast Australia |
Matt Rayner
B.Sc. M.Sc. PhD Senior Researcher Natural Sciences, Auckland War Memorial Museum New Zealand Matt is a seabird conservation ecologist with broad interests in avian movement ecology, and conservation biology. He is studying the biology of threatened spotted shags (Phalacrocorax punctatus) in the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, New Zealand. |
Nina Dehnhard
MSc, PhD Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway Nina is leading the long-term seabird monitoring work on Sklinna (central Norway; https://seapop.no/en/activities/key-sites/sklinna/), where European shags are the main study species. She is particularly interested in the spatial ecology of seabirds and how anthropogenic activities impact seabirds. |
Tycho Anker-Nilssen
M.Sc., PhD Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway Tycho is a senior seabird ecologist and has served as the national coordinator of SEAPOP (www.seapop.no/en) since established in 2005. With a special focus on Atlantic puffins he has led the long-term studies of seabirds in Røst (Lofoten Islands; https://seapop.no/en/activities/key-sites/rost/) for more than four decades, where also European shag (Gulosus aristotelis) is one of the key species. |
Tone Kristin Reiertsen
MSc, PhD Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway Tone is a seabird ecologist with special interest in environmental and human impact on seabirds’ demography and population dynamic. She is responsible for seabird monitoring of long-term studies on Hornøya, northeast Norway (https://seapop.no/en/activities/key-sites/hornoya/), including studies on Europen shags, larger gulls, kittiwake and auks. |
Annette Fayet
MSc, DPhil Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway https://annettefayet.com/ Annette is a seabird ecologist and a researcher at NINA, where she co-leads the long-term seabird monitoring programme on Røst in Northern Norway (https://seapop.no/en/activities/key-sites/rost/). Her research investigates drivers and fitness consequences of foraging and migration movements in North Atlantic and tropical seabirds. |
Kate Layton-Matthews
MSc, PhD Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway Kate is a statistical ecologist with a focus on the population ecology of seabirds and the impacts of anthropogenic pressures and has recently joined the team at Hornøya in northeast Norway (https://seapop.no/en/activities/key-sites/hornoya/). |
Susana Cárdenas-Alayza
B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD Director Punta San Juan Program Center for Environmental Sustainability Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Dr. Susana Cárdenas-Alayza is an ecologist that focuses on pinnipeds and seabirds. She is a researcher and professor at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia with a strong interest in trophic ecology, conservation and coexistence of top marine predators that thrive in the Humboldt Current ecosystem in Peru. Dr. Cárdenas-Alayza is collaborating with us to tag Humboldt penguins and Guanay Cormorants in southern Peru. |
Miran Kim
PhD Seabirds Lab. of Korea Republic of Korea Dr. Miran Kim is a seabird ecologist and leader of the Seabirds Lab. of Korea. Her research interests are breeding ecology, diet change, and movements of seabirds. Recently, she is investigating plastic debris ingestion and bycatch in seabirds, has been doing a long-term study of breeding Black-tailed gulls and worked for the conservation of Swinhoe's petrels. Dr. Kim is collaborating with us to tag Great and Temminck's Cormorants in the Republic of Korea. |
Victor Ribeiro Alvares Pimenta
B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. Collaborator, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil Dr. Victor Pimenta is a bird ecologist focusing on movement ecology and animal interactions with coastal environments, particularly in relation to fishery activities and human impacts. His recent studies have concentrated on breeding ecology and trophic interactions of Neotropic cormorants (Nannopterum brasilianum) with artisanal fisheries in southern Brazil. Dr. Pimenta is collaborating with the Cormorant Oceanography Project to tag Neotropic cormorants in southern Brazil. |