@vancemak
PhD Researcher @ExeterMarine, U of Exeter, Cornwall (UK). Kittiwakes & Offshore Wind, animal movement data, ecological niche modelling, ocean and climate projection modelling, impact assessment analysis, and marine spatial planning!
New paper alert! How can new technologies improve seabid population monitoring? Output from a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference in Coimbra last year.
academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Come work with us… PDRA position to work on a host of exciting things! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Get in touch if you want to know more
Delighted to be cosupervising this funded PhD with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social on #migration in #birds #seabirds @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Start in early 2026! Register for our online briefing session. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Atlantic Bluefin tuna are back in UK waters, but we still don’t exactly know what they are eating.
Support crucial marine research to help uncover the secrets of their diet and secure their future.
To find out more: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/atlantic-b...
🦑🧪🌍🐟🎣🦤🌊
Rucha and Ruth on the research vessel after a day of SCUBA diving and carrying SCUBA tanks backwards and forwards (hence some damp patches on their clothes)
Javier, Laura-Li, Ruth, and Casey in the sea in their snorkelling kit during their last day of fieldwork.
Out now in Coral Reefs: 'Active and passive pathways of nutrient transfer in coral reef ecosystems'
doi.org/10.1007/s003... 🐚
Thank you to my co-authors and field friends from @lec-reefs.bsky.social and beyond for all their help bringing this piece of work together 🌊
My first paper is out! 🥳🐠🐟
A juvenile kittiwake in the hand, wearing a 3-digit coded yellow colour ring, a red plastic ring and a metal ring.
Listen up anyone working in the Irish Sea this summer! We tagged a bunch of kitts in Liverpool Bay and want to gather as many resightings as we can. If you spot these yellow colour rings please give me a shout (dla205@exeter.ac.uk) 🐦💍💛
(Modelled by our very own VIP 😌👑)
#Seabirds #IrishSea
New open access paper! Led by Joshua Coste
Results show tropical seabirds meet diurnal constraints by navigating efficiently back to low-lying reef atoll colonies
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
Great work from Joshua's masters internship with @uniexecec.bsky.social and @iomarinescience.bsky.social
On a wild goose chase!!
w/ @stubearhop.bsky.social @aimee-mcintosh.bsky.social @lucywilliamson.bsky.social
@brentgoosechase.bsky.social
@uniexecec.bsky.social
On a wild goose chase!!
w/ @stubearhop.bsky.social @aimee-mcintosh.bsky.social @lucywilliamson.bsky.social
@brentgoosechase.bsky.social
@uniexecec.bsky.social
Faint aurora in North Donegal as we were setting nets this evening
Join us using the QR code tomorrow for our first webinar of the year @indianseabirdgroup.bsky.social
Woo!!!!! 🎉🎉
New paper! @jappliedecology.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/3C5gYJp
We mapped out the migrations of over 10K ind ⚫-tailed godwits (!) to characterize connectivity between sites in Europe and Africa.
We compiled tracking data, ring recoveries and resightings: >400K records in total! (1/5)
Postdoc opportunity to study tropical seabird connectivity & population genetics in the Indian Ocean!
With @malcnicoll.bsky.social & collaborators as part of the @iomarinescience.bsky.social seabird project
📍University of La Reunion
Apply by Jan 15th
#jobopportunity #seabird #ornithology
SEATRACK got a new website with better functionality and better access to documents: seatrack.net Click yourself through and learn more about the non-breeding distribution of north-Atlantic seabirds!
seapop.no/en/2024/12/n...
An old Cornish Field Hedge being repaired by keen hedging trainees. It was a beautiful sunny day and we hedged away for two days in the shade of old sycamores growing along the hedge.
Ryan, the trainer, guiding is on angles and stacking techniques that make a sturdy Cornish hedge
Forgotten Forests: 03 (1/3)
I had the absolute pleasure to learn the 4000 year old practice of Cornish hedge building with the Cornwall Rural Education and Skills Trust CIO (CREST)! Rows of stone packed in with soil, these structures can last for hundreds of years...
Want to use a unique dataset to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of genomic diversity and its drivers in a wild bird population? Apply for this #NERC #PhD position @uniexecec.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social.
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
🐦🌍🧪🧬 #ExeterCEC #Vlieland #NIOO-KNAW
Link doesn't look to be working Stu!
PhD Opportunity!! Come work with us (University of Exeter, RSPB & BTO) Diagnosing population decline in insectivorous birds. Inkd.in/eG58dQxs
Contact me for more details (s.bearhop@exeter.ac.uk). Please Share
@britishbirds.bsky.social @ibisjournal.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
Exciting PhD opportunity to investigate tropical seabird migration strategies with Malcolm Nicoll at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#ornithology #seabird #PhDopportunity
Responsibility for the conservation of kittiwake in the North Atlantic
Sankey diagram depicting origin designation linkages of kittiwake populations. Work is still in progress and has since been updated with new data.
So grateful to be given the opportunity to present some work from the first chapter of my PhD at the @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social #coimbraseabirds conference today!!
@cathorswill.bsky.social @alicetrevail.bsky.social
@rsherley.bsky.social
@stubearhop.bsky.social
@exetermarine.bsky.social
