Sea Duck Research and Monitoring Contact Database
Thank you for visiting the Sea Duck Research and Monitoring Contact Database. The goal of this resource is to help connect students, managers and sea duck researchers with each other and increase the accessibility of our community. We are aiming to compile contact information of current managers, researchers, and non-student professionals in the sea duck community.
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| Name of researcher, lab professor, or PI | Website Link | Research Focus (keywords) | Supervises students | Serves on committees | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Anderson | Website | energetic importance of herring spawn consumption by scoters. | Yes | Yes | |
| James Anderson | Website | behavior, diet, habitat use, movements, ecotoxicology | Yes | Yes | |
| Caroline Arzel | Website | ecotoxicology, wetland ecology, continuum from land to sea, waterbirds, landscape | Yes | Yes | |
| Ainars Aunins | bird distribution, bird abundance, bird population dynamics, bird and habitat relationships, population monitoring | Yes | Yes, but not accepting students currently. | ||
| Julia Baak | monitoring; abundance; distribution; tracking; aerial surveys | No | No | ||
| Shannon Badzinski | Sea duck and waterfowl monitoring, surveys | No | Yes | ||
| Jeff Ball | monitoring status trend habitat harvest | No | No | ||
| Bri Benvenuti | My focus is support conservation, including research overlaps | No | Yes | ||
| JD Bergeron | Website | rehabilitation; long-term survival; wildlife response | No | No | |
| Tim Bowman | population delineation, migration, breeding, surveys | No | No | ||
| Sean Boyd | Sea duck migration ecology, sea ducks and herring spawn, sea duck population dynamics | Yes, but not accepting students currently. | Yes, but not accepting students currently. | ||
| David Bradley | Website | BC Coastal Waterbird Survey | Yes | Yes | |
| Frances Buderman | Website | Movement, space-use, population dynamics, survey methods | Yes | Yes | |
| Lindsay Carlson | Website | Brant, eelgrass, coastal ecosystems, quantitative ecology, movement ecology | No | No | |
| Jameson Chace | Wintering sea duck habitat | Yes | Yes | ||
| Mindaugas Dagys | Seaducks, Baltic Sea, wintering, telemetry | Yes, but not accepting students currently. | Yes, but not accepting students currently. | ||
| Bryan Daniels | Spectacled Eider, Ecology, Survival, Nesting | Yes | Yes | ||
| Reyd Dupuis-Smith | Toxicology, Diet, Movement, Arctic, Oil | No | No | ||
| Sarah Endyke | conservation biology; movement ecology | No | No | ||
| Dan Esler | nearshore habitats, sea duck ecology, movements and migration, habitat use, foraging ecology | No | Yes | ||
| Grant Gilchrist | Website | conservation of Arctic sea ducks and pelagic seabirds in Canada and Greenland | Yes | Yes | |
| Scott Gilliland | sea duck ecology and movement | Yes | Yes | ||
| Jean-François Giroux | Population dynamics, habitat use, common eiders | No | No | ||
| Kirsty Gurney | Website | climate change, contaminants, ecology | Yes | Yes | |
| Michael Guttery | movement, harvest, survival | No | No | ||
| Matt Hamer | Website | surveys, aerial, imagery, telemetry, capture | No | No | |
| Al Hanson | monitoring, management, interested in volunteering for field projects | Yes | Yes | ||
| Nancy Hillstrand | Website | Management, localized depletions | No | Yes | |
| Craig Kessler | surveys, monitoring efforts | Yes | No | ||
| Mark Koneff | Population Monitoring Harvest Management | No | Yes | ||
| Dave Koons | Eiders, Geese, Populations, Communities, Migration | Yes | Yes | ||
| Shayla Kroeze | Website | Genomics, Conservation Biology, Wildlife Disease | No | No | |
| Juliet Lamb | Website | spatial ecology of marine birds, offshore wind energy development, ecosystem-based fisheries management | No | Yes | |
| Scott Larsen | anesthesia; PTT implantation; analgesia; physiology | No | No | ||
| Kjell Larsson | Website | Long-tailed duck, Common eider, Baltic Sea, population dynamics | No | No | |
| Christine Lepage | waterfowl surveys; sea duck distribution & trends; population delination; waterfowl conservation | No | Yes | ||
| Tyler Lewis | sea duck and waterfowl ecology | No | Yes | ||
| Oliver Love | Website | Responses to climate change, thermal stress, physiology, behaviour, reproductive investment decisions | Yes | Yes | |
| Mark Mallory | Website | tracking, habitat use, contaminants, diet, survival | Yes | Yes | |
| Brad McDaniel | Hunter / conservationist | No | No | ||
| Nic McLellan | waterfowl and wetland ecology and conservation | No | Yes | ||
| Scott McWilliams | Website | Migratory bird ecology, physiology, conservation | Yes | Yes | |
| Dustin Meattey | Website | Migration, contaminants, spatial ecology | No | No | |
| David Nelson | Website | Stable isotope ecology | Yes | Yes | |
| Alex Nicol-Harper | population modelling, conservation, demographic synthesis / meta-analysis | Yes | No | ||
| Mike Nilsen | Salish Sea Sea Ducks | No | Yes | ||
| Tom O'Connell | Website | Population, ecology, disease, decision, geospatial | Yes | Yes | |
| Jay Osenkowski | Website | Movement Patterns, Habitat Use, Harvest Estimates | Yes | Yes | |
| Margaret Petersen | migration ecology of seaducks | No | No | ||
| Bradley Pickens | monitoring, artifical intelligence, machine learning, distribution, population estimation | No | No | ||
| Liam Ragan | Website | Pacific Herring Spawn, Scoters, Important Bird Areas, Key Biodiversity Areas | No | No | |
| Eric Reed | Website | Ecology Biodiversity & Conservation Conservation Wildlife Environment Population Dynamics Natural Resource Management Evolutionary Biology Wildlife Management Natural Resources Conservation | Yes | Yes | |
| Walt Rhodes | Aerial surveys, breeding, wintering | No | No | ||
| Samantha Richman | Foraging, energetics, physiology, winter ecology | No | Yes | ||
| Martin Robards | Website | Ecology, Conservation, Policy, Co-Production, Transboundary | Yes | Yes | |
| Tony Roberts | Population modeling, habitat conservation | No | Yes | ||
| Bob Rogers | waterfowl monitoring | No | yes | ||
| Megan Ross | winter surveys, breeding surveys, tracking | No | No | ||
| Tom Rothe | Arctic ecology, harvest management, habitat conservation | No | Yes | ||
| David Safine | Website | migratory bird regulations, monitoring, surveys, sea duck ecology | No | Yes | |
| Casey Skinner | waterbird conservation, habitat restoration, nature-based restoration | Yes | Yes | ||
| Stuart Slattery | sea duck ecology, boreal forest ecology | No | Yes | ||
| Caleb Spiegel | Website | Marine birds, shorebirds, conservation & management, partnerships | No | No | |
| Kyle Spragens | Website | migration, movements, habitat use, harvest | No | Yes | |
| Joshua Stiller | surveys, monitoring, applied, management | No | Yes, but not accepting students currently. | ||
| Jacob Straub | Website | Photo surveys, age-ratios, migration ecology, cross-seasonal effects, Great Lakes | Yes | Yes | |
| Kelsey Sullivan | waterfowl management | No | Yes | ||
| John Takekawa | Website | movements, connectivity, habitats | Yes, but not accepting students currently. | Yes | |
| Jonathan Thompson | Website | Nutritional Ecology, Molt, Breeding, Barrow's Goldeneye | Yes, but not accepting students currently. | Yes | |
| Thorkell Lindberg Thórarinsson | Website | Population ecology, space use, breeding ecology, wintering ecology, migration strategies | No | No | |
| Farshad S. Vakili | Incubation behavior, pey-predation interaction, Anti-predator behavior, incubation temperature | No | No | ||
| Lindsay Veazey | AI, Computer vision, Camera traps, Common eiders | Yes | No | ||
| Todd Watts | migration counts, seasonal abundances, breeding | No | No | ||
| Alicia Wells-Berlin | Website | physiological ecology, bioenergitics, habitat use, anthropogenic impacts | Yes | Yes | |
| Alison Williams | surveys, monitoring | No | No | ||
| Jim Wilson | Website | Seabird and Sea Duck Migration | No | No | |
| Matthew Wilson | Website | Goldeneye, Bufflehead, Banding, Webtags | Yes, but not accepting students currently. | No |