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